November 2024
Alp joines the lab!
Mustafa Alp Ekinci joined the lab as a PhD student. He will work on characterizing the neural correlates of visual beauty. Welcome Alp!
September 2024
New Paper on Object Numerosity
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.
August 2024
Excellence Proposal Submitted
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!
May 2024
The lab at
VSS 2024
We had a lot of fun at the 2024 edition of VSS, with many nice interactions, great science, and of course, beers and beaches.
April 2024
Funding from the DFG for neuroaesthetics!
Great news! We received funding from the DFG for studying the neural correlates of visual beauty with EEG, fMRI, and DNNs.
March 2024
Sanjeev's paper out in Science Advances
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.
January 2024
Drawing paper accepted in Cognition
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!
December 2023
Party time!
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.
November 2023
Merve joins the lab!
Merve Kiniklioglu joined the lab as a postdoc, working on prefrontal influences on visual category perception. Welcome Merve!
September 2023
Ilker, Philipp, & Susan join the lab!
Ilker Duymaz, Philipp Flieger, and Susan Ajith joined the lab as PhD students. The ERC project is finally getting started. Welcome!
October 2024
Lixiang successfully depends his PhD!
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!
August 2024
Instragram explainer on a face illusion
Daniel provided some wise words on the "Flashed Face Distortion Effect" for a popular science Instagram channel. Watch the video here (in German).
July 2024
SFB Workshop on Categorization
We co-organized the workshop "Categorization in Perception and Action", with some great invited speakers and inspiring discussions on Cats.
April 2024
Lab Retreat with Fleming Lab
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!).
March 2024
Lixiang's paper out in J Neurophysiol
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.
February 2024
Lu is awarded an MSCA fellowship!
Lu-Chun got money from the EU for researching the neural representation of object co-occurrence statistics. Congratulations, looking forward to this!
December 2023
It's Gongting's birthday!
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.
November 2023
Nadine Dijkstra visits the lab
Nadine joined us in Gießen for a talk. We learned a lot of cool new things about mental imagery and had some great discussions.
November 2023
Ryszard Auksztulewicz visits
Rsyzard joined us in Gießen for a talk, interesting discussions on predictive processing, and a nice dinner.
October 2023
Micha joins the lab!
Micha Engeser joined the lab as a PhD student, working on individual differences in scene perception. Welcome Micha!