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About the Necessity and Sufficiency of Attention for Consciousness

Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000

In this project, we investigate whether conscious perception is possible without attention.

The influence of exogenous attention on consciousness

Mon, 01 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000

In this project, we investigate how exogenous attention interactions with conscious perception.

Salience and visual attention

Sun, 30 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000

In this project, we investigate how physical salience influences the attentional guidance of talk-relevant and task-irrelevant stimuli.

Selection history and visual attention

Tue, 01 Oct 2019 00:00:00 +0000

In this project, we investigate whether selection history influences attentional guidance. So far, we have focused on the potential influence of previously learned and selected target features that became irrelevant in a subsequent search task.

Shapes and visual attention

Mon, 01 Apr 2019 00:00:00 +0000

In this project, we investigate which features of simple 2D shapes can guide visual attention. Stimuli like color, luminance, or orientation are known to be able to guide visual attention. However, even simple shapes consist of multiple local or global features. In our first publication, we found that the global shape and the global orientation can guide visual attention when compatible with the search goals.

Adaptive car lighting systems and visual attention

Wed, 01 Jun 2016 00:00:00 +0000

Cooperating with the headlamp developer and manufacturer we investigate the influence of light-induced dynamics caused by adaptive driving beams on eye movements, visual attention, perception, and driving behavior.

Adaptive driving beams are sophisticated headlamp systems which adjust the light beam to the driving situation to provide an optimally illuminated field of view for the driver without glaring other road users. These adjustments cause the light beam to change its form, and we investigate the influence of these dynamics.

We first exhaustively reviewed studies which used eye tracking during real-world night driving (Grüner & Ansorge, 2017). Then we conducted a pilot study, where we found that light-induced dynamics attracted gazes. Based on this project, we received funding for a follow-up project ( ).