TY - JOUR A1 - Rolfs, Martin A1 - Dambacher, Michael A1 - Cavanagh, Patrick T1 - Visual adaptation of the perception of causality JF - Current biology N2 - We easily recover the causal properties of visual events, enabling us to understand and predict changes in the physical world. We see a tennis racket hitting a ball and sense that it caused the ball to fly over the net; we may also have an eerie but equally compelling experience of causality if the streetlights turn on just as we slam our car's door. Both perceptual [1] and cognitive [2] processes have been proposed to explain these spontaneous inferences, but without decisive evidence one way or the other, the question remains wide open [3-8]. Here, we address this long-standing debate using visual adaptation-a powerful tool to uncover neural populations that specialize in the analysis of specific visual features [9-12]. After prolonged viewing of causal collision events called "launches" [1], subsequently viewed events were judged more often as noncausal. These negative aftereffects of exposure to collisions are spatially localized in retinotopic coordinates, the reference frame shared by the retina and visual cortex. They are not explained by adaptation to other stimulus features and reveal visual routines in retinotopic cortex that detect and adapt to cause and effect in simple collision stimuli. Y1 - 2013 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2012.12.017 SN - 0960-9822 VL - 23 IS - 3 SP - 250 EP - 254 PB - Cell Press CY - Cambridge ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Rolfs, Martin A1 - Ohl, Sven T1 - Visual suppression in the superior colliculus around the time of microsaccades JF - Journal of neurophysiology N2 - Miniature eye movements jitter the retinal image unceasingly, raising the question of how perceptual continuity is achieved during visual fixation. Recent work discovered suppression of visual bursts in the superior colliculus around the time of microsaccades, tiny jerks of the eyes that support visual perception while gaze is fixed. This finding suggests that corollary discharge, supporting visual stability when rapid eye movements drastically shift the retinal image, may also exist for the smallest saccades. Y1 - 2011 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1152/jn.00862.2010 SN - 0022-3077 VL - 105 IS - 1 SP - 1 EP - 3 PB - American Chemical Society CY - Bethesda ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Laubrock, Jochen A1 - Kliegl, Reinhold A1 - Rolfs, Martin A1 - Engbert, Ralf T1 - When do microsaccades follow spatial attention? N2 - Following up on an exchange about the relation between microsaccades and spatial attention (Horowitz, Fencsik, Fine, Yurgenson, & Wolfe, 2007; Horowitz, Fine, Fencsik, Yurgenson, & Wolfe, 2007; Laubrock, Engbert, Rolfs, & Kliegl, 2007), we examine the effects of selection criteria and response modality. We show that for Posner cuing with saccadic responses, microsaccades go with attention in at least 75% of cases (almost 90% if probability matching is assumed) when they are first (or only) microsaccades in the cue target interval and when they occur between 200 and 400 msec after the cue. The relation between spatial attention and the direction of microsaccades drops to chance level for unselected microsaccades collected during manual-response conditions. Analyses of data from four cross-modal cuing experiments demonstrate an above-chance, intermediate link for visual cues, but no systematic relation for auditory cues. Thus, the link between spatial attention and direction of microsaccades depends on the experimental condition and time of occurrence, but it can be very strong. Y1 - 2010 UR - http://app.psychonomic-journals.org/ U6 - https://doi.org/10.3758/APP.72.3.683 SN - 1943-3921 ER - TY - GEN A1 - Dambacher, Michael A1 - Rolfs, Martin A1 - Göllner, Kristin A1 - Kliegl, Reinhold A1 - Jacobs, Arthur M. T1 - Event-related potentials reveal rapid verification of predicted visual input N2 - Human information processing depends critically on continuous predictions about upcoming events, but the temporal convergence of expectancy-based top-down and input-driven bottom-up streams is poorly understood. We show that, during reading, event-related potentials differ between exposure to highly predictable and unpredictable words no later than 90 ms after visual input. This result suggests an extremely rapid comparison of expected and incoming visual information and gives an upper temporal bound for theories of top-down and bottom-up interactions in object recognition. T3 - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe - paper 180 KW - Interactive activation model KW - Top-down influences KW - Word form area KW - Spatial attention KW - Brain potentials Y1 - 2009 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-44953 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Böttcher, Heiko A1 - Rolfs, Martin A1 - Kliegl, Reinhold A1 - Ihle, Wolfgang T1 - Inattentional blindness and change blindness bei Jungen mit ADHS Y1 - 2009 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Böttcher, Heiko A1 - Rolfs, Martin A1 - Kliegl, Reinhold A1 - Ihle, Wolfgang T1 - Inattentional blindness and change blindness bei Jungen mit ADHS : Posterpräsentation Y1 - 2009 UR - http://psycontent.metapress.com/content/1616-3443 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1026/1616-3443.38.S1.20 SN - 1616-3443 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Kliegl, Reinhold A1 - Rolfs, Martin A1 - Laubrock, Jochen A1 - Engbert, Ralf T1 - Microsaccadic modulation of response times in spatial attention tasks Y1 - 2009 UR - http://www.springerlink.com/content/101575 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-008-0202-2 SN - 0340-0727 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Rolfs, Martin T1 - Microsaccades : small steps on a long way N2 - Contrary to common wisdom, fixations are a dynamically rich behavior, composed of continual, miniature eye movements, of which microsaccades are the most salient component. Over the last few years, interest in these small movements has risen dramatically, driven by both neurophysiological and psychophysical results and by advances in techniques, analysis, and modeling of eye movements. The field has a long history but a significant portion of the earlier work has gone missing in the current literature, in part, as a result of the collapse of the field in the 1980s that followed a series of discouraging results. The present review compiles 60 years of work demonstrating the unique contribution of microsaccades to visual and oculomotor function. Specifically, the review covers the contribution of microsaccades to (1) the control of fixation position, (2) the reduction of perceptual fading and the continuity of perception, (3) the generation of synchronized visual transients, (4) visual acuity, (5) scanning of small spatial regions, (6) shifts of spatial attention, (7) resolving perceptual ambiguities in the face of multistable perception, as well as several other functions. The accumulated evidence demonstrates that microsaccades serve both perceptual and oculomotor goals and although in some cases their contribution is neither necessary nor unique, microsaccades are a malleable tool conveniently employed by the visual system. Y1 - 2009 UR - http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/00426989 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.visres.2009.08.010 SN - 0042-6989 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Thiel, Marco A1 - Romano, Maria Carmen A1 - Kurths, Jürgen A1 - Rolfs, Martin A1 - Kliegl, Reinhold T1 - Generating surrogates from recurrences N2 - In this paper, we present an approach to recover the dynamics from recurrences of a system and then generate (multivariate) twin surrogate (TS) trajectories. In contrast to other approaches, such as the linear-like surrogates, this technique produces surrogates which correspond to an independent copy of the underlying system, i.e. they induce a trajectory of the underlying system visiting the attractor in a different way. We show that these surrogates are well suited to test for complex synchronization, which makes it possible to systematically assess the reliability of synchronization analyses. We then apply the TS to study binocular fixational movements and find strong indications that the fixational movements of the left and right eye are phase synchronized. This result indicates that there might be only one centre in the brain that produces the fixational movements in both eyes or a close link between the two centres. Y1 - 2008 UR - http://rsta.royalsocietypublishing.org/ SN - 1364-503X ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Kinder, Annette A1 - Rolfs, Martin A1 - Kliegl, Reinhold T1 - Sequence learning at optimal stimulus-response mapping : evidence from a serial reaction-time task N2 - We propose a new version of the serial reaction time (SRT) task in which participants merely looked at the target instead of responding manually. As response locations were identical to target locations, stimulus - response compatibility was maximal in this task. We demonstrated that saccadic response times decreased during training and increased again when a new sequence was presented. It is unlikely that this effect was caused by stimulus - response (S - R) learning because bonds between (visual) stimuli and (oculomotor) responses were already well established before the experiment started. Thus, the finding shows that the building of S - R bonds is not essential for learning in the SRT task. Y1 - 2008 UR - http://tandfprod.literatumonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17470210701557555 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1080/17470210701557555 ER -