KAISER LAB

Mustafa Alp Ekinci joined the lab as a PhD student. He will work on characterizing the neural correlates of visual beauty. Welcome Alp!

Our paper on numerosity perception in scenes is out in PB&R. We show that the number of objects is underestimate in typically structured scenes.

The Kaiser Lab is proud to be part of "The Adaptive Mind", an excellence cluster proposal submitted for funding in the German Excellence Initiative. Cross fingers!

We had a lot of fun at the 2024 edition of VSS, with many nice interactions, great science, and of course, beers and beaches. 

Great news! We received funding from the DFG for studying the neural correlates of visual beauty with EEG, fMRI, and DNNs. 

We show that the integration of information across natural images can predict how beautiful they appear to us! Here's the paper, and here's a (German) press release.

Does this look like your bathroom? Gongting's and Matt's paper on using drawings to quantify individual differences in perception is out in Cognition. Yay!

We had a lot of fun at the Christmas party of the psychology department. Also look at the lab corporate identity, thanks to pink xmas hats - with special guest Elah.

Merve Kiniklioglu joined the lab as a postdoc, working on prefrontal influences on visual category perception. Welcome Merve!

Lixiang published his paper on alpha-dynamics that support the integration of visual information. Will he get a tattoo of the DOI?

Ilker Duymaz, Philipp Flieger, and Susan Ajith joined the lab as PhD students. The ERC project is finally getting started. Welcome!

Lixiang defended his well-earned PhD on 2nd October. Here he is seen with a proud supervisor. Congratulations Dr. Chen, and godspeed for your future career!

Daniel provided some wise words on the "Flashed Face Distortion Effect" for a popular science Instagram channel. Watch the video here (in German).

We co-organized the workshop "Categorization in Perception and Action", with some great invited speakers and inspiring discussions on Cats.

Together with the Fleming Lab, we went on a retreat! Three days of discussions on science and our lab organization, and an awesome photoshoot (see evidence on the right!).

Lixiang's new EEG paper on integration of dynamic natural information has been published. It extends our previous findings on the importance of alpha rhythms for integration.

Lu-Chun got money from the EU for researching the neural representation of object co-occurrence statistics. Congratulations, looking forward to this!

Gongting treated us to a very nice cake to celebrate his birthday. Congratulations! He got some cool toys to further clutter his office desk in return.

Nadine joined us in Gießen for a talk. We learned a lot of cool new things about mental imagery and had some great discussions.

Rsyzard joined us in Gießen for a talk, interesting discussions on predictive processing, and a nice dinner. 

Micha Engeser joined the lab as a PhD student, working on individual differences in scene perception. Welcome Micha!

We had a lot of fun attending this year's great ECVP conference in Paphos. Lots of sunshine, fun, and great science. Some further impressions are here.