Prof Daniel T. Smith
Dr Soazig Casteau
Dr Alison Lane
Dr Anthony Atkinson
Dr Alexis Cheviet
Alexis delivered the Vivensa project on cognitive processes in PSP and Parkinson’s disease. His main interest focuses on the interplay between oculomotor system and cognitive processes, especially in clinical populations. He worked with Dr. Nadège Doignon-Camus (internship at INSERM U1114, France) to explore visual attention processes during reading activity in the context of developmental dyslexia. Under the supervision of Denis Pelisson (CRNL, France), he then did his Ph.D to investigate the coupling between saccadic eye movements and visual perception in individuals suffering from various injuries in the oculomotor system (cerebellum, posterior parietal cortex). He uses mostly eye-tracking, psychophysics, and EEG techniques. He is now back in France
eMail: alexis.cheviet@durham.ac.uk
Prof Thomas Schenk
Thomas Schenk is head of the Clinical Neuropsychology Unit at the Ludwig-Maximilians University in Munich, Germany, and was Co-PI for the Motor Bias project. He is interested in the neural control of movement, the diagnosis and treatment of patients with attentional, visual and motor disorders and the long-term psychological consequences of neurological disorders. The members of the Clinical Neuropsychology unit work both with healthy humans and patients with neurological disorders; the methods employed in the Clinical Neuropsychology Unit include kinematic analysis of movements, gaze-tracking, virtual reality setups, EEG, TMS and fMRI.
eMail: Thomas.Schenk@psy.lmu.de; webpage
Dr Elias Topfstedt
Elias is a PhD student at LMU, under the supervision of Thomas. His research examines the tight link between the spatial orientation of visual attention and the planning of goal-directed movements. In particular, he directly tests whether the coupling between attention and actions is the consequence of processes of motor preparation or whether it reflects a habitual expectation of spatial congruence between an object of interest and a motor target.
Prof Stefan Van der Stigchel
Stefan van der Stigchel is a professor at Utrecht University and head of the research group Attentionlab. He was co-PI for the Motor Bias project. The group’s aim is to study how attention and visual awareness shape the perception of the world around us. Stefan is a member of the Young Academy of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences and author of a recent popular science book about attention (‘Zo werkt aandacht’).
eMail: s.vanderstigchel@uu.nl
Former team members:
Dr Siobhan McAteer
Dr Joris Elshout
Maria Magdalena Vorbeck
Silvia Jakobi