Apoorva Rajiv Madipakkam, a member of the Visual Perception Laboratory at Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, is interested in how the brain processes unconscious social information like eye gaze. She wants to understand what happens in the brains of people who struggle to process such information. Outside of the lab she loves swimming and basically any kind of sport as well as baking.
Since Karin Ludwig, a member of the Visual Perception Laboratory at Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, was given a book about visual illusions as a child, she has been interested in how we see the world around us. Now her research focuses on how visual information is processed in our brains so that it leads to a conscious visual experience in the end. Besides research, she loves travelling, skiing, singing in a choir and reading.
Marcus Rothkirch, a member of the Visual Perception Laboratory at Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, is a psychologist and is interested in finding out what motivates people to behave in a certain way. He is particularly curious about human behaviour when people are unconscious to the objects causing their particular behavior (for example, an invisible dollar note). For his research he uses methods like brain imaging and eye tracking.
Guido Hesselmann, co-head of the Visual Perception Laboratory at Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, is a cognitive neuroscientist with a focus on visual perception. Ever since he learned about the "attentional blink" phenomenon from his doctoral advisor at university, he has been fascinated by conscious and nonconscious vision. When he is not doing science, he likes riding and fixing his bikes.
Now You See It, Now You Don't: Interacting With Invisible Objects
What do you do when you are playing in the park on a hot day and your parents offer you an ice cream? Most probably, you go running to them, keep your eyes on the delicious ice cream cone, and reach out to take it from them.