Kaiser Lab
Studying natural vision at JLU Giessen using psychophysics, neuroimaging, and computational models, PI: Daniel Kaiser.
danielkaiser.net
- We’re happy to announce that Gongting Wang has successfully defended his PhD thesis at Freie Universität Berlin. Congratulations, Dr. Wang! 🎉
- 🚨 Preprint alert! 🚨
- 🚨 New preprints out!🚨 Excited to share two new preprints from my #MSCA project. With Daniel @dkaiserlab.bsky.social , Marius @peelen.bsky.social , and Belma Seferovic, we show how contextual associations shape real-world object representations and guide everyday visual task performance. 👇👇👇 1/n
- Check out @michaengesee.bsky.social 's preprint on individual differences in expectations about natural scenes and how they shape how we perceive and neurally represent scenes. 👁️🧠👨🦱👩🦰👩🦳
- I’m excited to share the first preprint from my PhD project! Together with Daniel Kaiser (@dkaiserlab.bsky.social), we investigated how internal models shape inter-individual differences in the perception and neural processing of natural scenes. Preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps... 1/n
- 2025 - Christmas Party Crew! 🎄
- Super happy to announce that our Research Training Group "PIMON" is funded by the @dfg.de ! Starting in October, we will have exciting opportunities for PhD students that want to explore object and material perception & interaction in Gießen @jlugiessen.bsky.social ! Just look at this amazing team!
- Here's a press release (in German): www.uni-giessen.de/de/ueber-uns... And here's tagging some of the great people involved: @kathadobs.bsky.social , @martinhebart.bsky.social , @haplab.bsky.social, @peelen.bsky.social .
- Reposted by Kaiser LabI am very excited to share our new preprint, spearheaded by the brilliant @lunahuestegge.bsky.social, w/ @peterkok.bsky.social and others: ‘An attempt to push mental imagery over the reality threshold using non-invasive brain stimulation’ doi.org/10.31234/osf...
- Reposted by Kaiser LabDecoding the rhythmic representation and communication of visual contents www.cell.com/trends/neuro... #neuroscience
- From Micha’s farewell gathering before his temporary leave 💫 - he’ll still be missed!
- A few snapshots from this year’s Kaiser Lab retreat 🌿🧠✨
- By utilizing the visual backward masking paradigm, this study aimed to disentangle the contributions of feedforward and recurrent processing, revealing that recurrent processing significantly shapes the object representations across the ventral visual stream. journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
- Together with @seeingxie.bsky.social , @singerjohannes.bsky.social , Bati Yilmaz, @dkaiserlab.bsky.social y.social , Radoslaw M. Cichy.
- Reposted by Kaiser LabHow can we characterize the contents of our internal models of the world? We highlight participant-driven approaches, from drawings to descriptions, to study how we expect scenes to look! 🤩
- From line drawings to scene perception — our new review argues for moving beyond experimenter-driven manipulations toward participant-driven approaches to reveal what’s in our internal models of the visual world. 👁️✍️🛋 royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
- Reposted by Kaiser LabIn this paper we present flexible methods for participants to express their expectations about natural scenes.
- From line drawings to scene perception — our new review argues for moving beyond experimenter-driven manipulations toward participant-driven approaches to reveal what’s in our internal models of the visual world. 👁️✍️🛋 royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
- From line drawings to scene perception — our new review argues for moving beyond experimenter-driven manipulations toward participant-driven approaches to reveal what’s in our internal models of the visual world. 👁️✍️🛋 royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
- Time to expand how we study natural scene perception! 🌅 w/ @michaengesee.bsky.social , @suzibot.bsky.social l, Ilker Duymaz, Gongting Wang, Matthew J. Foxwell, Radoslaw M. Cichy, David Pitcher & @dkaiserlab.bsky.social
- Kaiser Lab is at ECVP this year! Come check out our studies 😎
- Go Lu!! Congratulations 💜
- Honored and thrilled to receive the GGN Early Career Award @jlugiessen.bsky.social 🏆 Huge thanks to my awesome supervisors Daniel @dkaiserlab.bsky.social & Marius @peelen.bsky.social , all my collaborators, and the amazing colleagues from both labs — couldn’t have done it without you! 💗
- We had an awesome time discussing the role of feedback in perception @unil.bsky.social 🧠 and exploring the beautiful city of Lausanne! 💜🏞️ Thanks to @icepfl.bsky.social @davidpascucci.bsky.social
- All-topographic ANNs! Now out in @nathumbehav.nature.com , led by @zejinlu.bsky.social , in collaboration with @timkietzmann.bsky.social. See below for a summary 👇
- Now out in Nature Human Behaviour @nathumbehav.nature.com : “End-to-end topographic networks as models of cortical map formation and human visual behaviour”. Please check our NHB link: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Don’t miss out again! If you are interested in our studies presented at @VSSMtg , you can find our posters here: 👇 drive.google.com/drive/mobile...
- We are at @vssmtg.bsky.social 2025. 🏖️☀️🍹come check out our studies!
- Kaiser Lab goes #Exzellenz! The excellence cluster „The Adaptive Mind“ got funding for the next 7 years! Proud to be part of this awesome team and looking forward to all the exciting research to come. 🎆✨🥂
- #VSS2025 was a blast - great science, fun people, beach vibes. We‘ll be back! @vssmtg.bsky.social
- Reposted by Kaiser LabHow fast do we extract distance cues from scenes 🛤️🏞️🏜️ and integrate them with retinal size 🧸🐻 to infer real object size? Our new EEG study in Cortex has answers! w/ @dkaiserlab.bsky.social @suryagayet.bsky.social @peelen.bsky.social Check it out: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
- We are at @vssmtg.bsky.social 2025. 🏖️☀️🍹come check out our studies!
- Great talk on Beauty and the Brain at CMBB Day in Marburg! 🧠👁️
- Reposted by Kaiser LabTime to celebrate a new ANR-DFG funded project in collaboration with the stellar @dkaiserlab.bsky.social Stay totally tuned!!! 😎
- Reposted by Kaiser LabGlad to share our EEG study now is out in JNP. 🎉 We showed that alpha rhythms automatically interpolate occluded motion based on the surrounding contextual cues! 🚶♂️🏞️ @dkaiserlab.bsky.social journals.physiology.org/doi/full/10....
- Reposted by Kaiser LabRepresentational shifts from bottom-up gamma to top-down alpha dynamics drive visual integration, highlighting the crucial role of cortical feedback in the construction of seamless perceptual experiences. @lixiangchen.bsky.social @dkaiserlab.bsky.social doi.org/10.1038/s42003-025-08011-0
- Now out in @royalsocietypublishing.org Proceedings B! Check out Gongting Wang's EEG work on individual differences in scene perception: Scenes that are more typical for individual observers are represented in an enhanced yet more idiosyncratic way. Link: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
- Reposted by Kaiser LabWe search for an object in an array just like we search for a person in a crowd. Or no? Here the performance in visual search suggests distinct algorithms or implementation in social vs. non-social scene perception. With N. Goupil & @dkaiserlab.bsky.social psycnet.apa.org/record/2025-...
- TeaP 2025 - It was a pleasure! 🤓😎
- Hey hey! We‘re on the Cover of @cp-trendsneuro.bsky.social. -check out our article on rhythmic representations in the visual system below. 👁️🧠🌊
- March 2025 issue of TINS: www.cell.com/issue/S0166-... Free featured articles & more: cell.com/trends/neuro... Cover article: ‘Decoding the rhythmic representation and communication of visual contents’, by Rico Stecher & colleagues @dkaiserlab.bsky.social www.cell.com/trends/neuro...
- Reposted by Kaiser LabWe make about 3-4 fast eye movements a second, yet our world appears stable. How is this possible? In a preprint led by @lucakaemmer.bsky.social we test the intriguing idea that anticipatory signals in the fovea may explain visual stability. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
- Reposted by Kaiser LabIn this review article, I summarize some of our recent work on the neural basis of visual search in scenes, showing how attention and expectation interactively drive preparatory activity in visual cortex and jointly modulate the visual processing of potential target objects. doi.org/10.1177/0963...
- Reposted by Kaiser Lab🔔🗣️NEW #PhD opportunity in #Psychology and #Neuroscience with Prof Neil Roach (Nottingham) and me (Leicester): This ESRC-funded project aims to use individual differences to study the socially relevant components of time perception. Application deadline: 24 February
- Job alert! We are now looking for a PhD student starting Sept 2025, for a project on visual relations between people and objects, using behavior, EEG, fMRI, and ANNs. The project involves a collaboration with brilliant @ljubapi.bsky.social. You can find the official advertisement below.👇
- www.uni-giessen.de/de/ueber-uns... If you're interested in applying, feel free to get in touch beforehand - happy to informally answer any questions you may have. Feel free to forward, too!
- Reposted by Kaiser LabEnergy efficiency drives evolution, and humans may have evolved pleasure-based signals to optimize actions. Does this extend to aesthetic pleasure? Yes! We find strong evidence in silico and human observers! osf.io/preprints/ps... With Yikai Tang and Wil Cunningham. @uoftpsychology.bsky.social
- Reposted by Kaiser LabA PhD position is open in @peelen.bsky.social Lab at the Donders Institute - please spread the word and consider applying if you are interested about how imagery and perception relate to each other www.ru.nl/en/working-a... - plus we are fun people to work with ! :)
- Now out in @cp-trendsneuro.bsky.social : We discuss how the contents of visual perception, imagery, and prediction can be decoded from rhythmic brain activity and argue that such rhythmic representations offer new insights into neural information propagation. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
- Reposted by Kaiser LabOur review on the theoretical status of oscillations and field potentials is out! What are their effects, and what can electrophysiology signals reveal about how the brain works? w/ @dlevenstein.bsky.social @prokraustinator.bsky.social Bradley Voytek @rdgao.bsky.social www.cell.com/trends/cogni...
