Centre Attention & Vision du LPP UMR 8158 – 45 rue des Saints Peres 75006 Paris, France

AmsterdamFest

April 26th and 27th, 2012, AmsterdamFest:
we had the pleasure to host the lab of Jan Theeuwes for talks based loosely around saccades and attention. Presentations were given on the Thursday afternoon and Friday morning.

Click here to have the program: pdf

VSS 2012

Here is the list of talks and posters that will be presented by our group at VSS Vision Sciences Society, May 11-16, 2012, Naples (Florida):

Martin Szinte, Donatas Jonikaitis, Martin Rolfs, Patrick Cavanagh. Allocation of attention across saccades. (abstract)

Bilge Sayim, John Greenwood, Patrick Cavanagh. A remote target repetition reduces crowding. (abstract)

John Greenwood, Martin Szinte, Bilge Sayim, Patrick Cavanagh. Shared spatial uncertainty for crowding and saccades. (abstract)

Patrick Cavanagh, Stuart Anstis. The Flash Grab Effect. (abstract)

Andrei Gorea, Patrick Cavanagh, Joshua Solomon. On successive memories. (abstract)

Florian Perdreau, Patrick Cavanagh. The Artist’s visual span: better performance through smaller windows. (abstract)

Elisabeth Hein, Patrick Cavanagh. Features bias correspondence in apparent motion over short distances in the Ternus display but long distances in split motion. (abstract)

Au revoir Elisabeth!

Elisabeth Hein has departed for her new position as assistant professor at the famous Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen, Germany. She is joining Prof. Dr Bettina Rolke’s lab in the Psychology Institute.

Good luck Elisabeth! Best wishes from all of us.

New articles!

Here is the list of our new and recent publications. Congratulations to the authors!

Greenwood J.A., Bex P.J. & Dakin S.C. Crowding follows the binding of relative position and orientation. Journal of Vision 2012;12(3):18:1-20. pdf

van Vugt, F. T. & Cavanagh, P. (2012). Response trajectories reveal conflict phase in image-word mismatch. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, online. pdf

Yeh, S.-L., He, S. & Cavanagh, P. (2012). Semantic priming from crowded words. Psychological Science, in press.

Dakin S.C., Tibber M.S., Greenwood J.A., Kingdom F.A.A. & Morgan M.J. A common visual metric for approximate number and density. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2011;108:19552-19557. pdf

Perdreau, F. & Cavanagh, P. (2011). Do artists see their retinas? Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 5:171.

Stanley, J., Forte, J., Cavanagh, P. & Carter, O. (2011). Onset rivalry: the initial dominance phase is independent of ongoing perceptual alternations. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 5:140, 1-9.

Dakin S.C., Greenwood J.A., Carlson TA & Bex P.J. Crowding is tuned for perceived (not physical) location. Journal of Vision 2011;11(9):2:1-13. pdf

Vaziri Pashkam, M. & Cavanagh, P. (2011). Effect of speed overestimation on flash lag effect at low luminance. i-Perception, 2(9) 1063–1075. pdf

GiessenFest

December 8th and 9th, 2011, GiessenFest. We will receive a visit from Drs Karl Gegenfurtner, Doris Braun, Roland Fleming and 12 others for two days of talks on color, attention, and eye movements.

The program of our conference: pdf.

New publications

Congratulations for two publications accepted:

The Art of Transparency, to appear in i-Perception, by Bilge Sayim and Patrick Cavanagh

What line drawings reveal about the visual brain, to appear in Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, by Bilge Sayim and Patrick Cavanagh

Visit of Dr Florian Ostendorf

October 6th, 2011, CAVLab welcomed Dr. Florian Ostendorf from La Charité Medical School in Berlin for an afternoon of discussions on Saccadic Suppression of Displacement.

ECVP 2011

Here is the list of the talks and posters presented by our group at ECVP:
European Conference on Visual Perception, August 28-September 1, 2011, Toulouse (France)

Motion correspondence shows feature bias in spatiotopic coordinates
E Hein, P Cavanagh (abstract)

Do Artists See their Retinas?
F Perdreau, P Cavanagh (abstract, pdf)

Long range grouping affects crowding
B Sayim, P Cavanagh (abstract)

Transient target signals reduce crowding, transient flanker signals do not
J Greenwood, P Cavanagh (abstract)

Sequential decisions on a memorized visual feature reveal implicit knowledge of decision errors – A Gorea, P Cavanagh, J A Solomon (abstract)

Crowding is immune to the pre-saccadic shift of attention
C Morvan, P Cavanagh (abstract)

Grouping trumps pooling and centroids in crowding
M Manassi, B Sayim, M H Herzog (abstract, pdf)

The pdf and the abstracts of all the talks and posters will soon be found in the presentations section.

Wonderful news: birth announcement

Congratulations on the arrival of your beautiful baby Alice, Martin and Elodie!
The first of August, 2011: a great day to remember!
Best wishes from all of us.

Au revoir Donatas

In August 2011, after six months in our group, Donatas has departed for his new postdoc position in Amsterdam.
Best wishes from all of us.

VSS 2011

Here is the list of the posters presented by our group at VSS
Vision Sciences Society, May 6-11, 2011, Naples (USA):

You can find the pdf and the abstracts of the posters in the Presentations section.

Anderson, E., Dakin, S., Schwarzkopf, D. S., Rees, G., & Greenwood, J. (2011).
The neural correlates of crowding-induced changes in appearance.

Anstis, S., & Cavanagh, P. (2011).
Large illusory displacements of spots flashed on a moving object.

Dakin, S., Tibber, M., Greenwood, J., Kingdom, F., & Morgan, M. (2011).
The common perceptual metric for human discrimination of number and density.


Dambacher, M., Rolfs, M., & Cavanagh, P. (2011).
Visual adaptation of causality.

Greenwood, J., Tailor, V., Simmers, A., Sloper, J., Rubin, G., Bex, P., & Dakin, S. (2011).
Links between acuity, crowding and binocularity in children with and without amblyopia.


Hein, E., & Cavanagh, P. (2011).
Correspondence in apparent motion: Features don’t like to travel far.


Kosovicheva, A. A., Maus, G. W., Anstis, S., Cavanagh, P, Tse, P. U., & Whitey, D. (2011).
The motion-induced shift in the perceived location of a grating also shifts its aftereffect.

Jonikaitis, D., Paepper, M., & Deubel, H. (2011).
Saccades redistribute attentional resources.

Manassi, M., Sayim, B., & Herzog, P. (2011).
When bigger is better.

Morvan, C., Deubel, H., & Cavanagh, P. (2011). (talk)
Saccade target visible on landing despite removal: Can human observers see the prediction generated by presaccadic remapping?

Sayim, B., & Cavanagh, P. (2011).
Effects of target-flanker grouping in crowding inside and outside the critical spacing.

Szinte, M., Correia, S., & Cavanagh, P. (2011).
Breakdown of spatial constancy for head roll but not head translation
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Tibber, M., Greenwood, J., & Dakin, S. (2011).
Psychophysical evidence for a common metric underlying number and density discrimination.


Tse, P., Whitney, D., Anstis, S., & Cavanagh, P. (2011).
Voluntary attention modulates motion-induced mislocalization.

Vaziri Pashkam, M., & Cavanagh, P. (2011).
Saccades to moving targets are not influenced by the speed overestimation at low luminance.

Veenemans, A., & Cavanagh, P. (2011).
Tailgate masking: the obliterating effect of the unattended pre-mask.

Yeh, S.-L., He, S., & Cavanagh, P. (2011).
Extraction of semantic information from unidentifiable, crowded words.

Pisa-Paris Fest

On 14th and 15th of April, 2011, our whole team and two members of LPP were invited by Pisavisionlab (managed by Concetta Morone, David Burr and Stefano Baldassi). After our PisaFest mini-conference in Paris last year, we had the pleasure to meet again our Italian colleagues for the continuation of our scientific discussions.

This time, the subject was “Stability, Attention and Plasticity”. You can find the Pisa-Paris Fest program here: pdf.

A great event in our team!

We send all our congratulations to Elisabeth Hein who marries Stefan Blaschke on the 12th of March, 2011.

Elisabeth and Stefan, we are delighted and we wish you a very beautiful wedding ceremony and a lot of happiness!

Martin Rolfs on US TV and radio

Martin Rolfs is on US TV and radio talking about the study that Martin, Donatas Jonikaitis, Heiner Deubel and Patrick Cavanagh just published.

Click here and enjoy his video “Priming The Mind’s Eye” on ScienceFriday.

GottingenFest

From February 14th to 15th 2011, we had the pleasure to host Stefan Treue and three members of his lab (Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory (CNL) at the German Primate Center (DPZ) in Göttingen, Germany), and other vision researchers for the seventh in our series of bi-laboratory Fests, GöttingenFest. Both labs introduced recent and forthcoming work.

Also the timetable of our mini-conference : pdf

Our research in Le Monde and New Waver

The French media are interested in our research works.

Le Monde presented on 27th November 2010 our work about the gender-specific face aftereffect in a news in brief Donner un genre à un visage, matière à illusions.

The magazine NewWaver (Editions Autrement) dedicates in its issue of January 2011 an article of five pages to Patrick ‘s work about the ‘art on the brain’: An eye-opening tour of the Louvre with Patrick Cavanagh.

Go to the Media Coverage section for all our articles in the media.

Another new article in JoV

Congratulations to Martin Szinte and Patrick Cavanagh for their article published in Journal of Vision, February 8, 2011. Here the pdf or in our Publications section.

New article in JoV

Congratulations on the publication of Amelia Hunt and Patrick Cavanagh’s article in Journal of Vision, January 18, 2011. You can find here the pdf or in our Publications section.

Welcome to Donatas!

Donatas Jonikaitis, from Lituania, PhD from Munich University, is joining our team today for a post-doc position of six months. We’re glad to welcome you, Donatas, and we wish you a nice stay in Paris!

GottingenFest 14/15 February, 2011

Stefan Treue and 3 of his lab members are in Paris February 14 and 15 for the next in the series of CAVLab Fests. They and several LPP members will present physiological and behavioral work on attention, position, and motion.
The talks are on the afternoon of the 14th, 2pm to 6pm and the morning of the 15th, 9am to 1pm at 45 rue des Saints Pères, H432.
All are welcome to attend.

Welcome to John!

Our new Australian post-doc, John Greenwood, who comes from UCL, London, has just joined our team for two years.
Welcome in our lab, John, and have a nice stay in Paris!

New article in Current Biology, presented in Nature

A new article by Patrick Cavanagh, Arash Afraz (MIT) and Maryam Vaziri Pashkam (Harvard University), entitled “Spatial Heterogeneity in the Perception of Face and Form Attributes ” (abstract here) is published in Current Biology 20, 2112-2116 (2010).
See the presentation of the article in Nature (23/30 December 2010, vol. 468) “Man or woman? Depends on view”: pdf here or in the section Media coverage.

Paper accepted in Nature Neuroscience

Our article “Predictive remapping of attention across eye movements”, written together by Martin Rolfs, Donatas Jonikaitis, Heiner Deubel, and Patrick Cavanagh, has just been accepted in Nature Neuroscience. Well done!
You can find the abstract here (see also our publications section). The article will be published online 26 December 2010.

Visit of the artists Anne Cleary and Denis Connolly

Friday, October 22, 10 AM until 12 in the seminar room H432, local artists Anne Cleary and Denis Connolly visited to see what we do and tell us about their work. Here are the titles of the presentations.

Elisabeth Hein: Who moved?
Christian Wehrhahn: Chromatic induction from the invisible
Pascal Mamassian: Color afterimages
Patrick Cavanagh & Denis Connolly: Seeing in pure color
Denis Connolly: Video art at http://www.connolly-cleary.com/Home/News.html
Bilge Sayim: The art of transparency
Arielle Veenemans: Invisibility
Kevin O’Regan: Change blindness
Florian Perdreau: Do artists see their retinas
Martin Szinte: Tracking eyes and heads

Neuroscience and art: our research in New Scientist

In the article “Windows to the mind” (September 18th, 2010), New Scientist describes our research on neuroscience and art. Jessica Griggs, the careers editor of New Scientist, refers to Patrick Cavanagh’s scientific work to say that when it comes to understanding the brain’s visual system, artists are way ahead of neuroscientists.

Go to the media coverage section for all our articles in the media.

Au revoir Remy

In October 2010, after two years in our group, Rémy and Judith and their son Wilbert will be back in Montréal, where Rémy is going to start a new post-doc. Best wishes from all of us.

Welcome to Stephanie and Florian

Welcome to Stéphanie Correia (Cogmaster M1) and Florian Perdreau (Cogmaster M2) who join our lab for their master’s research projects (stages).

ECVP 2010

Here is the list of the 2 talks and 4 posters presented by our group at ECVP:
European Conference on Visual Perception, August 22-26, 2010, Lausanne (Suisse)
(full pdf of all abstracts)

All jazzy. Gregorian explorations of pure colour
P Cavanagh (talk)

Behavioural evidence for the remapping of saccade target locations
M Rolfs, D Jonikaitis, H Deubel, P Cavanagh (talk)

Different processing strategies underlie mean orientation discrimination in low and high orientation variance
R Allard, P Cavanagh (poster)

How good Gestalt counteracts clutter in contextual modulation
B Sayim, M Manassi, M H Herzog (poster)

In contextual modulation, bigger is not better for low luminance stimuli
M Manassi, B Sayim, M H Herzog (poster)

Perceived lightness influences object correspondence
E Hein, C M Moore (poster)

The abstracts of the talks and posters can be found in the presentations section.

Welcome to Elisabeth and Bilge

This summer, we were delighted to welcome our new postdocs, Bilge Sayim from Lausanne, who arrived on June 2010 and Elisabeth Hein, who came from the States on July 2010.
We wish you a very nice stay for your two next years in Paris!

Au revoir Tomas

Tomas Knapen has departed for his new postdoc position in Victor Lamme’s lab in Amsterdam where he will pursue his fMRI and other interests funded by his fabulous Veni award.

Best wishes from all of us.

VSS 2010

Here is the listing of the 2 talks and 3 posters presented by our group at VSS:
Vision Sciences Society, May 7-13, 2010, Naples (Florida)

Predictive updating of attention to saccade targets
Martin Rolfs, Donatas Jonikaitis, Heiner Deubel, Patrick Cavanagh
Talk M. Rolfs, May 8 (Session name: Attention: Interactions with eye and hand movement)

Where are you looking? Pseudogaze in afterimages
Daw-An Wu, Patrick Cavanagh
Talk Daw-An Wu, May 12 (Session Name: Eye movements: Updating)

Temporal dynamics of remapping captured by peri‐saccadic motion trace
Martin Szinte, Mark Wexler, Patrick Cavanagh
Poster Session May 8 (Attention: Eye movements)

Effect of speed overestimation on manual hitting at low luminance
Maryam Vaziri Pashkam, Patrick Cavanagh
Poster Session May 9 (Perception and action: Pointing and hitting)

Orientation uncertainty reveals different detection strategies in noise
Rémy Allard, Patrick Cavanagh
Poster Session May 12 (Spatial vision: Masking)

The talks (abstracts) and posters can be found in the presentations section.

PisaFest

In April 2010, the 15th and 16th to be exact, we’re welcoming Maria Concetta Morrone, David Burr and their colleagues from Pisa (Italy) to our lab for the 6th in our series of mini-conferences: the PisaFest. The conference will be broadcasted over the internet, so stay tuned!

The program of our miniconference: pisafest.

Au revoir Martin and Claudia

After being in our group for two years, Martin Rolfs and Claudia Buss (and their son Jesper) leave us for New York where Martin has a Marie Curie postdoc with Marisa Carrasco.
Best wishes from all of us.

A new article in TiCS

The article “Visual stability based on remapping of attention pointers” (authors: Patrick Cavanagh, Amelia R. Hunt, Arash Afraz and Martin Rolfs) is in press in Trends in Cognitive Sciences pdf

Three new postdocs joining our lab!

A major crew change is coming up! Soon we will welcome these three new postdocs to our lab:
Bilge Sayim arriving June 1 from Michael Herzog’s lab in EPFL, Lausanne,
Elisabeth Hein arriving July 1 from Cathleen Moore’s lab at the University of Iowa,
John Greenwood arriving January 1, 2011, from Steve Dakin’s lab at UCL.

LondonFest

On the 8th and 9th of February 2010, we’re welcoming a group of vision scientists from London to our lab for a mini-conference.

The timetable of our miniconference: londonfest

Opinion piece on remapping accepted in TiCS

Our opinion article “Visual stability based on remapping of attention pointers” has just been accepted in Trends in Cognitive Sciences. In this paper we describe a new “sparse remapping” interpretation of how we keep track of things in the world. You can find a preprint here.

New Article in JoV

“The reference frame of the tilt aftereffect”
Journal of Vision, Volume 10, Number 1, Article 8, Pages 1-13, 2010
Tomas Knapen
Martin Rolfs
Mark Wexler
Patrick Cavanagh

For the pdf, click here in the here to go to the publications section.

New Article in JoV

Tomas Knapen, post-doc in our team, has just published “The spatial scale of perceptual memory in ambiguous figure perception” in Journal of Vision, 9(13):16, 2009.

For the pdf, click here in the here to go to the publications section.

Donatas Jonikaitis joins the lab for a month

Donatas Jonikaitis, a PhD student with Heiner Deubel in Munich, is visiting our lab for a month. Together with Martin and Patrick he will be working on a project concerned with pre-saccadic attention shifts. Welcome, Donatas!