The Mind in Action Lab
The MIAlab is a junior research group (PI: Sven Ohl) located at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and 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.
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/.
Ben, Martin and Sven have a new preprint on causal capture. In their study, they pitted visual adaptation against contextual influences on causal perception and found that contextual influences escaped the strong influence of visual adaptation. Congratulations to Ben for submitting his first manuscript. For more information, see https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.04.10.648104v1.
Sven and Martin published their paper on the directional tuning of the perception of causality at eLife. For more details see https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.93454.3
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