Personal Page of Karl Gegenfurtner

Prof. Karl R. Gegenfurtner
PhD in Experimental Psychology, 1990, New York University

Adress: Giessen University, Dept. of Psychology, Otto-Behaghel-Str. 10, 35394 Giessen (Germany)
Fax : ++49 641 99 26 119 Phone : ++49 641 99 26 100
Room : 320, Building F1 email : gegenfurtner@uni-giessen.de

The emphasis of my current research is on information processing in the visual system. Specifically, I am concerned with the relationship between low level sensory processes, higher level visual cognition, and sensorimotor integration. My goal is to answer the question how complex scenes and objects are perceived in a natural environment, how they are represented in the brain, and how the visual information is used to drive the motor system.

Selected Publications of Karl R. Gegenfurtner

Complete list of Articles and Books


Dynamic integration of information about salience and value for saccadic eye movements	Visual Processing, Learning and Feedback in the Primate Eye Movement System	Improved visual sensitivity during smooth pursuit eye movements	Saccadic facilitation in natural backgrounds	Memory modulates color appearance	Neuronal processing delays are compensated in the sensorimotor branch of the visual system

Cortical mechanisms of colour vision	Color vision	Sensory and cognitive contributions of color to the perception of natural scenes	Seeing movement in the dark	Interactions between color and motion in the visual pathways	Contrast dependence of colour and luminance motion mechanisms in human vision

Curriculum Vitae

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1981-1986: Psychology Student at the University of Regensburg, Diploma in Psychology, 1986	1986-1990: Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology, New York University, New York	1990-1993: Postdoc at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and at the Center for Neural Science of the New York University	1993-2000: Research assistant at the MPI for Biological Cybernetics in Tübingen 1998: Habilitation for Medical Psychology and Behavioral Neurobiology	2000-2001: Professor for Biological Psychology at the Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg	Since 2001: Professor for General Psychology at the Justus-Liebig-University Giessen

Services

Editorial Board


Journal Physiology (2002-2009)	Vision Research	Visual Neuroscience	Journal of Vision	Perception	Psychological Research

Since 2010: Board of Directors Vision Science Society, President 2012/2013

External Funding

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2012-2016: Perceptual representation of illumination, shape and material (EU) Partner Marie-Curie Initial Training Network	2010-2013: Mesopic Vision (DFG)	2009-2014: Perception of material properties (DFG Reinhart Koselleck-Projekt)	2008-2012: Co-ordination for optimal decisions in dynamic environments (EU) Partner Marie-Curie Initial Training Network	2008-2011: Augenbewegungen beim Lesen in unterschiedlichen Medien (LOEWE Teilprojekt im Schwerpunkt Kulturtechniken und ihre Medialisierung)	2006-2009: Gaze-based communication (EU Partner STREP, FET-Open)

2004-2011: Research Group „Perception and Action“ (DFG) Speaker	2004-2008: Summer school „Visual Neuroscience“, head organizer (Volkswagen Foundation)	2003-2010: Research training network NeuroAct „Gehirn und Verhalten“ (DFG), Co-Speaker	2003-2007: Perception for recognition and action (EU) Partner Marie-Curie Initial Training Network	2002-2006: Perception of natural scenes (DFG)	2002-2005: Verbundprojekt Neue Verfahren der Informationsverarbeitung auf der Basis neurokognitiver Modellierung – ModKog

2001-2005: Cortical mechanisms of color vision