The Mind in Action Lab
The MIAlab (PI: Sven Ohl) is an Experimental Psychology lab located at the University of Applied Sciences Magdeburg-Stendal. We are funded by the Heisenberg Program of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. In our research, we study vision and memory in action, and how humans process causal interactions in their sensory environment. The lab’s core methods include psychophysics, eye tracking and applied statistics.
If you don’t know why you ended up on this website, then try out the visual turntable and have some fun setting things in motion. (Note, this might not be supported by all browsers.)
What’s new
This paper on the visibility of saccade-like motion has been long in the making and is finally out. In a tour de force this paper shows that the perceptual thresholds for high-speed motion perception during fixation can be predicted based on the lawful kinematics of saccadic eye movements. Check out the paper just published in Nature Communications https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-58659-9 and the press release https://www.scienceofintelligence.de/too-fast-to-see-eye-movements-predict-speed-limits-in-perception/.
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