{"id":44948,"date":"2022-06-23T12:24:30","date_gmt":"2022-06-23T10:24:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.humboldtforum.org\/?post_type=event&p=44948"},"modified":"2022-07-04T15:31:09","modified_gmt":"2022-07-04T13:31:09","slug":"movement-in-the-eye-of-the-beholder","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/www.humboldtforum.org\/en\/programm\/termin\/drop-in-en\/movement-in-the-eye-of-the-beholder-44948\/","title":{"rendered":"Movement in the eye of the beholder"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The eyes are the Marco Polo of the human body \u2014 they travel incessantly across the visual world in front of us, curious for interesting or even insightful information. Tracking someone\u2019s eye movements, therefore, provides insights into their perception and cognition \u2014 the eyes are indeed a window to the mind.<\/p>\n

That eye movements are necessary for perception to occur in the first place was shown in experiments in the second half of the last century, when scientists showed that preventing eye movements (e.g., through paralysis or by stabilizing an image on the retina) leads to the rapid fading of perception within a fraction of a second.<\/p>\n

In “Meet the Scientist”, Martin Rolfs will show demonstrations of how eye movements shape the input to the visual brain \u2014 imposing seemingly erratic motion onto the retina like the footage captured by hand-held cameras. He will suggest how the brain exploits the various sensory consequences of eye movements to serve continuous perception and behavior.<\/p>\n

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