Svenja WulffInsititute of Psychology Fliednerstraße 21 D-48149 Münster Raum Fl138 Phone: +49 (0) 251/83 34178 Fax.: +49 (0) 251/83 34173 E-mail: s.wulff@wwu.de |
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Research Areas
The visual system is
regarded to be the most important sensory system in humans since it
provides far reaching three-dimensional information of high resolution
of the environment. For an active exploration of the ambient scene,
subjects make rapid eye movements called saccades which shift the
direction of gaze from one target of interest to another. Saccades are
so brief that no visual feedback can be given during the saccade.
Therefore, the saccadic motor command have to be exactly prepared in
advance to accurately aim the fovea at a new target. Due to growth,
injury or muscle weakness in consequence of aging, the mechanical
properties of the oculomotor plant are subject to alterations which
would lead to an erroneous saccade based on the primal motor command.
For this reason the oculomotor system is undergoing a continuous
self-calibration to adapt the new requirements. Experimentally, I
investigate this process in humans and monkeys using the paradigm of
saccadic adaptation. The main focus of my research is on the system's
learning parameters and the employed reference frames.
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| *1983 |
Münster, Germany |
| 2003-2009 |
Studies in Physics, University of Münster |
| 2009 |
Diploma
thesis, Institute of Nuclear Physics, University of Münster, Title:
Position Resolution and Zero Suppression of the ALICE TRD at LHC
(Supervisor Prof. Dr. J Wessels) |
| 2009 |
Beginning of PhD research project, Institute of Biology, University of Münster |
