Vision and memory in action

The research project "Vision and Memory in Action" has two major objectives. First, we aim to reveal the levels at which saccadic eye movements select consolidated memory representations. Moreover, we will study the neural implementation of saccadic selection in visual working memory using Electroencephalography (EEG). Second, in the project The perception of causality in the (active) visual system, we will use visual adaptation protocols to understand the processing of visual events bearing a causal interaction (e.g., in launching events) in the visual system by understanding elementary causality detectors and their architecture in the visual system. Building on this work, we will then examine the visual continuity of such causal interactions around saccadic eye movements. The two topics are linked by the goal to understand the processing and the maintenance of visual information—ranging from simple features to complex causal events—in active observers (i.e., observers that move their eyes, head, and body with a focus on eye movements in this project).