Oculomotor Lab

Philipp Kreyenmeier, M.Sc. (LMU, Germany), M.Sc. (Univ of Glasgow, UK)

Research

My research focusses on how the brain transforms sensory information into actions under different time constraints. I study different types of voluntary (saccades and smooth pursuit) and reflexive (Ocular Following) eye movements to probe the mechanisms underlying deliberate action control that require long processing times and our ability to react to sudden changes in the environment with minimal processing delays.

Publications

Journal publications: Click here for my google scholar profile.

Kreyenmeier, P., Bhuiyan, I., Gian, M., Chow, H.M., & Spering, M. (preprint). Smooth pursuit inhibition reveals audiovisual enhancement of fast movement control. bioRxiv, 10.1101/2023.09.12.557501.
Kreyenmeier, P., Schroeger, A. Cañal-Bruland, R., Raab M., & Spering, M. (2023). Rapid audiovisual integration guides predictive actions. eNeuro, 10(8): 1-10.
Kreyenmeier, P., Kaemmer L., Fooken, J., & Spering, M. (2022). Humans can track but fail to predict accelerating objects. eNeuro, 9(5): 1-15.
Conci, M., Kreyenmeier, P., Kroell, L., Speech, C., & Mueller, H.J. (2021). The nationality benefit: long-term memory association enhance visual working memory. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 28: 1382-1390.
Fooken, J.*, Kreyenmeier, P.*, & Spering, M. (2021). The role of eye movements in manual interception: a mini-review. Vision Research , 183: 82-90.
Kreyenmeier, P., Deubel, H., & Hanning, N.M. (2020). Theory of visual attention (TVA) in action: assessing premotor attention in simultaneous eye-hand movements.Cortex, 133, 133-148
Kozak, R.A., Kreyenmeier, P., Gu, C., Johnston, K., & Corneil, B.D. (2019). Stimulus-locked responses on human upper limb muscles and online-corrective reaches are preferentially evoked by low spatial frequencies. eNeuro, 6(5), 1-17
Kreyenmeier, P., Fooken, J., & Spering, M. (2017). Context effects on smooth pursuit and manual interception of a disappearing target. Journal of Neurophysiology, 118(1), 404-415.

Conference proceedings (first author only):

Kreyenmeier, P., Kumbhani, R., Movshon, J.A., & Spering, M. (2023). Dissociation in contrast-dependent biases in pattern motion perception and ultra-fast eye movements. Poster at Gordon Research Conference (GRC) on Eye Movements, South Hadley, MA, USA.
Kreyenmeier, P., Schroeger, A. Cañal-Bruland, R., Raab M., & Spering, M. (2023). Loud and fast: sound contributes to vision-guided eye and hand movements. Talk at Gordon Research Seminar (GRS) on Eye Movements, South Hadley, MA, USA.
Kreyenmeier, P., Spering, M. & Fooken, J. (2023). Action response-mode modulates go/no-go decision accuracy. Journal of Vision, 23(9), 5818. Poster at annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society (VSS), St. Pete's Beach, FL, USA.
Kreyenmeier, P., Schroeger, A. Cañal-Bruland, R., Raab M., & Spering, M. (2022). Hearing fast and slow: sound influences target speed estimation for vision-guided action. Poster at Gordon Research Conference (GRC) on Neurobiology of Cognition, Newry, ME, USA.
Kreyenmeier, P., Kumbhani, R., Movshon, J.A., & Spering, M. (2022). Dissociation in contrast-dependent biases in pattern motion perception and ultra-fast eye movements. Active Vision Symposium. Rochester, NY, USA.
Kreyenmeier, P., Deubel H., Hanning, N.M. (2022). Using the Theory of Visual Attention (TVA) to Measure Premotor Attention. Talk at Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychology:innen (TeaP), virtual.
Kreyenmeier, P., Kaemmer, L., Fooken, J., & Spering, M. (2021). Humans can smoothly pursue but fail to intercept accelerating targets. Journal of Vision, 21(9): 4061. Talk at annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society (VSS), virtual.
Kreyenmeier, P., & Spering, M. (2019). Sudden Visual Stimulation Evokes Fast Orienting Responses During Smooth Pursuit Eye Movements. Poster at Gordon Research Conference (GRC) on Eye Movements, Lewiston, ME, USA.
Kreyenmeier, P., Hanning, N.M., & Deubel, H. (2019). TVA in action: Attention capacity and selectivity during coordinated eye-hand movements. Journal of Vision, 19(10), 280b. Poster at annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society (VSS), St. Pete's Beach ,FL, USA.
Kreyenmeier, P., Kozak, R.A., Gu, C., Johnston, K., & Corneil, B.D. (2018). Stimulus-locked activity in human upper limb muscles and fast online reach adjustments are preferentially evoked by low spatial frequency targets. Society for the Neural Control of Movement. Poster at annual meeting of the Neural Control of Movement Society (NCM), Santa Fe, NM, USA.
Kreyenmeier, P., Fooken, J., & Spering, M. (2016). Similar effects of visual context dynamics on eye and hand movements. Journal of Vision,16(12), 457. Poster at annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society (VSS), St. Pete's Beach, FL, USA.

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Education:

B.Sc. in Psychology from Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich, Germany (August 2015)
M.Sc. in Brain Sciences from University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK (June 2017)
M.Sc. in Neuro-cognitive Psychology from Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich, Germany (August 2018)

Selected awards:

09/2018-08/2023 - International Tuition Award, UBC Vancouver, Canada
12/2022 - Margaret L. Adamson Award, UBC Ophthalmology, UBC Vancouver, Canada
08/2022 - DMCBH General Endowment Award, UBC Vancouver, Canada
09/2018-08/2022 - International Doctoral Fellowship, UBC Vancouver, Canada
05/2022 - Center for Vision Sciences Travel Award, University of Rochester, USA
12/2018 - Student Research Award, LMU Munich, Germany
04/2013-08/2018 - German Academic Scholarship Foundation, Germany

Research experience:

Since 09/2018 - PhD student in the UBC Oculomotor Lab (Prof. Dr. Miriam Spering), Dept. Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, UBC, Vancouver, BC, Canada
01/2018-08/2018 - Graduate (MSc) student in the Deubel Laboratory (Prof. Dr. Heiner Deubel), Dept. Psychology, LMU, Munich, Germany
06/2017-10/2017 - Visiting Research Student in the Gaze Control Lab (Prof. Dr. Brian D. Corneil), Depts. Psychology, Physiology & Pharmacology; Western University, London, ON, Canada
10/2016-06/2017 - Graduate (MSc) student at the Center for Cognitive Neuroimaging (Prof. Dr. Lars Muckli), Dept. Psychology & Neuroscience, University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK
11/2015-06/2016 - Research Assistant at the German Center for Vertigo and Balance Disorders (Prof. Dr. Paul Taylor), Klinikum Grosshadern; LMU, Munich, Germany
03/2015-06/2015 & 02/2016-03/2016 - Visiting Research Student in the UBC Oculomotor Lab (Prof. Dr. Miriam Spering), Dept. Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, UBC, Vancouver, BC, Canada

Teaching experience:

05/2023-08/2023 - Instructor for COGS 402, Undergraduate Program in Cognitive Systems
12/2022-02/2023 - TA for NRSC 501, Graduate Program (MSc and PhD) in Neuroscience
11/2022-12/2022 - TA for DSCI 561, Graduate Program (MSc) in Data Science