Oculomotor Lab
Dr. Miriam Spering
Current Collaborators
Deborah Giaschi, PhD (Ophthalmology & Psychology, UBC)
Chrystalina Antoniades (Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford)
Silke Cresswell (Neurology & Pacific Parkinson’s Research Centre, UBC)
Jody Culham (Psychology, University of Western Ontario)
Anthony Herdman (Audiology, UBC)
Nicola Hodges (Kinesiology, UBC)
Martin McKeown (Neurology & Pacific Parkinson's Research Centre, UBC)
Tony Movshon (Center for Neural Science, New York University)
Andreas Sprenger (Neurology, University of Lübeck)
Dinesh K. Pai (Computer Science, UBC)
Anna Montagnini (Institut de Neurosciences Cognitives)
Recent lab visitors (hosted by M. Spering)
Julio Martinez-Trujillo (Western)
Neuroscience Colloquium talk on March 16, 2018 on "Probing memory circuits in the primate brain: from single neurons to neural networks"Clay Curtis (NYU)
Neuroscience Colloquium talk on March 2, 2018 on "Mapping spatial priority in the human frontoparietal cortex"Richard Andersen (Caltech)
Neuroscience Colloquium talk on May 6, 2016 on "Decoding imagined movements from the posterior parietal cortex of tetraplegic humans"Jody Culham (Neuroscience, Western University)
Neuroscience Colloquium talk on September 26, 2014 on "Human neuroimaging of real objects and real actions"Dan Javitt (Psychiatry, NYU)
Neuroscience Colloquium talk on June 20, 2014 on "What can the study of schizophrenia tell us about about the role of NMDA receptors in normal cognition?"Marisa Carrasco (Psychology & Neural Science, NYU)
Neuroscience Colloquium talk on April 11, 2014 on "Attention: where perception and cognition meet"Douglas Crawford (Neuroscience, York University)
Neuroscience Colloquium talk on October 18, 2013 on "How vision becomes action in the gaze control system"Michael Goldberg (Neuroscience, Columbia University)
Neuroscience Colloquium talk on September 20, 2013 on "Attention and arousal in the parietal cortex"Dennis Levi (Optometry, UC Berkeley)
Neuroscience Colloquium talk on May 31, 2013 on "Removing the brakes on plasticity in the adult visual system"Mel Goodale (Neuroscience, Western University)
Neuroscience Colloquium talk on April 5, 2013 on "Blindsight in action: What patients with damage to primary visual cortex tell us about the neural substrates of visually guided actions"Doug Munoz (Neuroscience, Queen's University)
Neuroscience Colloquium talk on November 9, 2012 on "Using eye movements to probe brain function and dysfunction"Stephen Lisberger (Neurobiology, Duke University)
Neuroscience Colloquium talk on March 2, 2012 on "How the brain gets its notion of motion"Tony Movshon (Center for Neural Science, NYU, New York)
Neuroscience Colloquium talk on Nov 4, 2011 on "Brain mechanisms of visual perception"Alain Berthoz (College de France, Paris)
Visual Cognitive Neuroscience Colloquium talk on August 20, 2011 on "A selection of ideas on gaze"
Lab Photo Fall 2023

Lab Photo Spring/Summer 2017
(in the centre: our binocular Dual-Purkinje image eye tracker)

Dr. Miriam Spering
UBC Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences
Peter Wall Faculty Associate
Member of the Center for Brain Health
Graduate Program in Neuroscience
International Collaboration on Repair Discoveries
PhD (Dr. rer. nat.) in Psychology with Karl Gegenfurtner, Giessen/Germany (2006)
Postdoc in Psychology & Neuroscience with Marisa Carrasco, NYU (2008-2010)
Current Lab Members
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Philipp Kreyenmeier |
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Abibat Abiodun Akande |
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Jeremy Thomas |
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Jessica Chalissery |
Current Summer Students & Undergraduate RAs
Mathew Gian
Undergrad RA, UBC, 2021-presentLab Alumni
Juana Ayala Castañeda
MSc student, UBC, 2021-2023Leah Kuzmuk
MSc student, UBC, 2021-2023Xiuyun Wu
PhD student, UBC, 2017-2022Doris Chow
Postdoctoral Fellow, UBC, 2018-2022 (funding: CIHR/Michael Smith)Anna Schröger
Visiting Research Student, University of Jena, 2021-2022 (funding: DAAD)Ishmam Bhuiyan
Undergrad RA, UBC, 2020-2021 (funding: NSERC-USRA)Jolande Fooken
PhD student/Postdoctoral Fellow, 2015-2020Vriti Bhagat
Undergrad RA, UBC, 2020 (funding: NSERC-USRA)Jane Kim
Lab Manager, UBC, 2019-2020Pooja Patel
Undergrad RA, UBC, 2018-2020Luca Kaemmer
Research Intern, Maastricht, 2020Anouk de Brouwer
Postdoctoral Fellow, 2018-19Hikari Kinjo
Visiting Professor, 2018-19[Faculty of Psychology, Meja Gakuin University, Japan]
Hannah Brown
Undergraduate, UBC, 2018-19[Directed Studies, UBC]
Matt Madsen
Undergraduate RA, UBC, 2018-19 (funding: SSRP)[FLEX student, UBC]
Kiran Mann
Undergraduate RA, UBC, 2016-18 (funding: SSRP)[Medical Undergraduate student, UBC]
Christian Schlappner
Undergraduate RA, UBC, 2018 (funding: NSERC-USRA)[Bachelor in Psychology, UBC]
Svea Meyer
Bachelor's thesis student, Munich, Germany, 2018 (funding: Studienstiftung)[Bachelor in Psychology, Munich]
Andy Liu
FLEX student, UBC Medicine, 2017-18[Medical Undergraduate student, UBC]
Rose Shannon
Undergraduate RA, UBC, 2017-18[in transition]
Jean-Bernard Damasse
Visiting student from Marseille, France, 2017[Medical School, Marseille]
Nicolas Isla
COGS Directed Studies, UBC, 2017[VR industry]
Pearson-Wyder Hodge
Undergraduate RA & Masters, UBC, 2016-18[Masters in Neuroscience, UBC]
Austin Rothwell
Undergraduate RA, UBC, 2016-17 (funding: NSERC-USRA)[Masters in Computer Science, UBC]
Dimitrios Palidis
Graduate RA, 2015-16[PhD in Neuroscience at Western Univ.]
Eric Chu
Directed Studies, 2016[Masters in Neuroscience, UBC]
Philipp Kreyenmeier
Bachelor's thesis student, Munich, Germany, 2015-16 (funding: Studienstiftung)[PhD in the lab]
Kathryn M. Lalonde
Master's student, UBC, 2013-15 (funding: NSERC)[Medical Undergraduate student, UBC]
Sumeet Mutti
Undergraduate RA, UBC, 2015 (funding: NSERC-USRA)[Masters in Psychology, UBC]
Armaan Malhotra
Undergraduate volunteer, UBC, 2013[Medical Undergraduate student, UBC]
Alex Tao
Undergraduate RA, UBC, 2013[Deloitte Ltd., Canada]
Melissa Wan
Undergraduate volunteer, UBC, 2013[Medical Undergraduate student, UBC]
Jeff Wang
Medical undergraduate RA, UBC, 2013 (funding: SSRP)[Residency Family Medicine]
Aenne Brielmann
Undergraduate RA, Konstanz, Germany, 2012 (funding: Studienstiftung)[PhD Psychology, NYU]
Janick Edinger
Undergraduate RA, Mannheim, Germany, 2012 (funding: Studienstiftung)[Postdoc Univ. Mannheim, Germany]
Jolande Fooken
Undergraduate volunteer, Aachen, Germany, 2012[PhD in the lab]
Sally Ke
Medical undergraduate RA, UBC, 2011-12 (funding: SSRP)[Residency Family Medicine]
Elsie Wang
Undergraduate RA, UBC, 2012 (funding: SSRP)[Dental school, Melbourne]
Jessica Lam
Undergraduate volunteer, UBC, 2011[Dental school, NYU]