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If you divide the lab year roughly into presenting science vs. creating science, then September is the month when we all come back to our labs and get busy tinkering, implementing and piloting new ideas. We’ve spent the last few weeks doing just that and are still getting new input through our regular Reading Club, which everyone actively attends. Our team is now almost complete for the next few months (but wait for the next post) and I am happy to have such a wonderful team that is highly motivated to do good science.

We are very happy to welcome Laura van Zantwijk as a new PhD student in the MIAlab. Laura did her Master in Utrecht and has already contributed to many successful research projects on active perception. Welcome to Berlin Laura. We are so happy to have you here.

We participated at the spontaneous RIPE workshop in Berlin. What a great opportunity to learn more about relations from so many smart people. Hopefully, this workshop will take place again next year.

One of the annual highlights in our research calendar is just around the corner. The MIAlab is flying to VSS. Sven will be giving a talk on Saturday with the title “What Newton did not know about Newton’s cradle: Separating visual routines for cause and effect” in the talk session “Perception of Relations, Intuitive Physics.” A lot of other cool talks are in the same session and we are very excited.

We are delighted that Siri is now starting as a student assistant in the lab. She will be a great help to us in collecting data and we are already looking forward to programming new stimuli together with her. Siri is now officially the first lab member in our still young lab. Welcome Siri!

We were in Oxford for a few days after being invited by Dejan Draschkow and his lab for a workshop on combining eye tracking and EEG in virtual reality. Felix Klotzsche gave a wonderful introduction, motivating but also highlighting some important considerations when using VR as a tool for cognitive neuroscience. On the last day, we had the pleasure of presenting our memory studies using eye movements, EEG and VR at the BEACON seminar. Thanks to our host we had the best time in Oxford.

If you are currently enrolled as a student and would like to work in our laboratory in Berlin, then this job may be of interest to you. You will support us in collecting data for psychophysical experiments and gain insights into our day-to-day research work. If this sounds interesting, please apply by 14 February.

We have a website. If you are interested in studying the interplay between actions and memory, or the perception of causality, please consider joining the lab in Berlin. Watch this space for new positions over the next couple of months.