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Vision Research Seminar

February 7, 2024, 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm

Location

Virtual 

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Registration is required. The seminar will be recorded. If you are unable to attend the live virtual event, please feel free to register to receive the recording. 

Cost

Free

Eye movements as a window into cognition

Speaker

Dr. Miriam Spering
Associate Professor
Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences

Biography

Dr. Spering received her Ph.D. in Psychology at the University of Giessen in Germany and her M.A. in Psychology at the University of Heidelberg in Germany. Dr. Spering's areas of specialization are in experimental psychology and visual neuroscience. Recently, she has been actively working on perception-action link, eye-hand coordination, and eye movements as disease biomarkers. 

 

Eye movements as a continuous indicator of sensorimotor integration

Speaker

Philipp Kreyenmeier
PhD Candidate, Spering Lab
Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences

Biography

Philipp received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Psychology from Ludwig-Maximilian University (LMU), Munich, Germany and an M.Sc. in Brain Sciences from the University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK. In 2018, Philipp joined Dr. Miriam Spering's lab at UBC as PhD student where he works on the sensory guidance of human eye movements and the coordination of eye and hand movements during rapid interception tasks.

 

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