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MEET THE SCIENTIST at HU Labor With Martin Rolfs, “Movement in the Eye of the Beholder. How Looking Shapes Visual Perception”

Abstract: The eyes are the Marco Polo of the human body — they travel incessantly across the visual world in front of us, curious for interesting or even insightful information. Tracking someone’s eye movements, therefore, provides insights into their perception and cognition — the eyes are indeed a window to the mind. That eye movements

Daniel M. Wolpert (Columbia University), “Contextual Inference Underlies the Learning of Sensorimotor Repertoires”

Abstract: Humans spend a lifetime learning, storing and refining a repertoire of motor memories. However, it is unknown what principle underlies the way our continuous stream of sensorimotor experience is segmented into separate memories and how we adapt and use this growing repertoire. Here we develop a principled theory of motor learning based on the

Katharina Scheiter (University of Potsdam), “Multimodal Learning: Underlying Processes and How To Support Them”

Abstract:Theories of learning from multimodal sources (e.g., combinations of text and pictures, aka multimedia) posit that in order to effectively learn from multimedia, students need to select information from text and pictures, organize the information in memory, and most importantly, integrate the information into one mental model. In the first part of my presentation, I