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Project 5: Expectation violation by eye movements: attribution and compensation

Prof. Dr. Alexander Schütz (Sensomotoric Learning)

PhD Student: Fabian Parth

Eye movements directly change the incoming visual information on the retina. In this project, we plan to investigate how expectations are generated based on information from the peripheral visual field and then compared to information from the central visual field after an eye movement has been executed. We plan to induce expectation violations by manipulating the visual information during the eye movement. The reaction to expectation violations will be measured by eye movement parameters and EEG. This will allow us to investigate to which external or internals causes expectation violations are attributed and under which circumstances expectations or movement plans are modified.

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