Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin - Lebenswissen­schaftliche Fakultät - Institut für Psychologie

Allgemeine Psychologie Aktive Wahrnehmung und Kognition

2026

Kaemmer, L., Kroell, L. M., Knapen, T., Rolfs, M., & Hebart, M. N. (2026). Feedback of peripheral saccade targets to early foveal cortex. eLife, 14, RP107053.

Qu, R., Hall, O., Bideau, P. K., Ouerfelli-Ethier, J., Rolfs, M., Obermayer, K., & Hellwich, O. (2026). Salience-SGG: Enhancing unbiased scene graph generation with iterative salience estimation. 2026 IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV).

Kuper, C. & Rolfs, M. (2026). Rapid motor inhibition as a mechanism to prevent outdated movements. Journal of Neuroscience, 46(11):e1319252026.

Schweitzer, R., Seel, T., Raisch, J., & Rolfs, M. (2026). High-fidelity but hypometric spatial localization of afterimages across saccades. Science Advances, 12, eaeb0557.

2025

Mengers, V., Roth, N., Brock, O., Obermayer, K., & Rolfs (2025). A robotics-inspired scanpath model reveals the importance of uncertainty and semantic object cues for gaze guidance in dynamic scenes. Journal of Vision, 25(2):6, 1-33.

Ohl, S. & Rolfs, M. (2025). Visual routines for detecting causal interactions are tuned to motion direction. eLife, 13, RP93454.

Heuer, A. & Rolfs, M. (2025). Predictable object motion is extrapolated to support visual working memory for surface features. Cognition, 261, 106150.

Rolfs, M., Schweitzer, R., Castet, E., Watson, T.L., & Ohl, S. (2025). Lawful kinematics link eye movements to the limits of high-speed perception. Nature Communications, 16:3962, 1-17.

Klanke, J.-N., Ohl, S., & Rolfs, M. (2025). Sensorimotor awareness requires intention: Evidence from minuscule eye movements. Cognition, 262, 106176.

Kroell, L. M. & Rolfs, M. (2025). The magnitude and time course of pre-saccadic foveal prediction depend on the conspicuity of the saccade target. eLife, 12, RP91236.

Klanke, J.-N., Ohl, S., & Rolfs, M. (2025). Microsaccades do not give rise to a conscious feeling of agency for their sensorimotor consequences in visual perception. Journal of Cognition, 8(1): 51, 1–22.

Schweitzer, R., Seel, T., Raisch, J., & Rolfs, M. (2025). Early visual signatures and benefits of intra-saccadic motion streaks. PLoS Computational Biology, 21(9): e1013544.

Schweitzer, R., Doering, M., Seel, T., Raisch, J., & Rolfs, M. (2025). Saccadic omission revisited: What saccade-induced smear looks like. Psychological Review, in press.

Nörenberg, W., Schweitzer, R., & Rolfs, M. (2025). Temporal recalibration to delayed visual consequences of saccades. Journal of Vision, 25, 4.

Ince, M., Hübner, C., & Rolfs, M. (2025). Object continuity through invisible retinal motion at saccadic speed. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA, 122(47): e2518968122.

Rolfs, M. & Ince, M. (2025). Perception: Visual adaptation on the move. Current Biology, 35, R1186–R1188.

2024

ao, B., Rolfs, M., Roberts, D., Fattal, J., Achtyes, E.D., Tso, I.F., Diwadkar, V.A., Kashy, D., Bao, J., & Thakkar, K.N. (2024). Abnormal Oculomotor Corollary Discharge Signaling as a Trans-diagnostic Mechanism of Psychosis. Schizophrenia Bulletin, sbad180.

Lehet, M., Rolfs, M., Bao, J., Fattal, J., & Thakkar, K.N. (2024). Pre-saccadic shifts of attention in individuals diagnosed with schizophrenia. Brain and Behavior, 14, e3466.

Ohl, S., Kroell, L. M., & Rolfs, M. (2024). Saccadic selection in visual working memory is robust across the visual field and linked to saccade metrics: Evidence from 9 experiments and more than 100,000 trials. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 153(2), 544–563.

Rolfs, M. & Hübner, C. (2024). Blink and you see it. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA, 121(16) e2404021121.

Roberts, D., Yao, B., Rolfs, M., Slate, R., Fattal, J., Bao, J., Achtyes, E., Tso, I.F., Diwadkar, V., & Thakkar, K.N. (2024). Altered use of extraretinal information during sequential saccadic eye movements in individuals with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder with psychotic features. Journal of Psychiatry and Neuroscience, 49(6), E402-E412.

Roth, N., McLaughlin, J., Obermayer, K., & Rolfs, M. (2024). Gaze behavior reveals expectations of potential scene changes. Psychological Science, 35(12):1350–1363.

Grzeczkowski, L., Stein, A., & Rolfs (2024). Trans-retinal predictive signals of visual features are precise, saccade-specific and operate over a wide range of spatial frequencies. Journal of Neurophysiology, 132(6), 1887-1895.

2023

Battaje, A., Brock, O., & Rolfs, M. (2023). An interactive motion perception tool for kindergarteners (and vision scientists). i-Perception, 14(2), 1-16.

Heuer, A. & Rolfs, M. (2023). Temporal and spatial reference frames in visual working memory are defined by ordinal and relational properties. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 49(9), 1361-1375.

Roth, N., Rolfs, M., Hellwich, O., & Obermayer, K. (2023). Objects guide human gaze behavior in dynamic real-world scenes. PLoS Computational Biology, 19(10), e1011512.

Grzeczkowski, L., Shi, Z., Rolfs, M., & Deubel, H. (2023). Perceptual learning across saccades: feature- but not location-specific. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA, 120(43), e2303763120.

Caziot, B., Rolfs, M., & Backus, B. (2023). Orienting attention across binocular disparity. PNAS nexus, 2(10), pgad314.

2022

White, A.L., Moreland, J., & Rolfs, M. (2022). Oculomotor freezing indicates conscious detection free of decision bias. Journal of Neurophysiology, in press. [preprint]

Rolfs, M. & Schweitzer, R. (2022). Coupling perception to action through incidental sensory consequences of motor behavior. Nature Reviews Psychology, in press.

2021

Yao, B., Rolfs, M., McLaughlin, C., Isenstein, E.L., Guillory, S.B., Grosman, H., Kashy, D.A., Foss-Feig, J.H., & Thakkar, K.N. (2021). Oculomotor corollary discharge signaling is related to repetitive behavior in children with autism spectrum disorder. Journal of Vision, 21(8):9, 1-20.

Heuer, A. & Rolfs, M. (2021). A direct comparison of attentional orienting to spatial and temporal positions in visual working memory. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review.

Schweitzer, R. & Rolfs, M. (2021). Intra-saccadic motion streaks jump-start gaze correction. Science Advances, 7, 30:eabf2218, 1-14.

Schweitzer, R. & Rolfs, M. (2021). Definition, modeling and detection of saccades in the face of post-saccadic oscillations. In: Eye-tracking: background, methods and applications (ed. S. Stuart). SpringerNature Neuromethods. [preprint]

Rolfs, M. & Ohl, S. (2021). Moving fast and seeing slow? The visual consequences of vigorous movement. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 44, e131.

Rolfs, M. & Ohl, S. (2021). Moving fast and seeing slow? The visual consequences of vigorous movement. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 44, e131.

Shurygina, O., Pooresmaeili, A. & Rolfs, M. (2021). Pre-saccadic attention spreads to stimuli forming a perceptual group with the saccade target, Cortex, 140, 179-198.

Heuer, A. & Rolfs, M. (2021). Incidental encoding of visual information in temporal reference frames in working memory. Cognition, 207:104526, 1-9.

Kroell, L. M. & Rolfs, M. (2021). The peripheral sensitivity profile at the saccade target reshapes during saccade preparation, Cortex, 139, 12-26.

2020

Kroell, L. M. & Rolfs, M. (2020). Book review of “van der Stigchel, S. How Attention Works”, Perception, 49(7), 796-797.

Heuer, A., Ohl, S., & Rolfs, M. (2020). Memory for action: A functional view of selection in visual working memory. Visual Cognition, 28(5-8), 388-400.

Schweitzer, R. & Rolfs, M. (2020). Intra-saccadic motion streaks as cues to linking object locations across saccades. Journal of Vision, 20(4):17, 1-24.

Schweitzer, R. & Rolfs, M. (2020). An adaptive algorithm for fast and reliable online saccade detection. Behavior Research Methods, 52, 1122-1139.

Ohl, S. & Rolfs, M. (2020). Bold moves: Inevitable saccadic selection in visual short-term memory. Journal of Vision, 20(2):11, 1-14.

Valsecchi, M., Cassanello, C. R., Herwig, A., Rolfs, M., & Gegenfurtner, K. R. (2020). A comparison of the temporal and spatial properties of trans-saccadic perceptual re-calibration and saccadic adaptation. Journal of Vision, 20(4):2, 1-15.

2019

Cassanello, C. R., Ostendorf, F., & Rolfs, M. (2019). A generative learning model for saccade adaptation. PLoS Computational Biology, 15(8), e1006695.

Schweitzer, R., Watson, T.L., Watson, J., & Rolfs, M. (2019). The joy of retinal painting: A build-it-yourself device for intrasaccadic presentations. Perception, 48, 1020-1025.

Kwon, S., Rolfs, M., Mitchel, J. F. (2019). Pre-saccadic motion integration drives a predictive post-saccadic following response. Journal of Vision, 19(11):12, 1-19.

Thakkar, K.N. & Rolfs, M. (2019). Disrupted corollary discharge in schizophrenia: evidence from the oculomotor system. Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging, 4, 773-781.

Yao, B., Neggers, S.F.W., Rolfs, M., Rösler, L., Thompson, I.A., Hopman, H.J., Ghermezi, L., Kahn, R.S., & Thakkar, K.N. (2019). Structural thalamofrontal hypoconnectivity is related to oculomotor corollary discharge dysfunction in schizophrenia. Journal of Neuroscience, 39(11), 2102-2113.

2018

Balsdon, T., Schweitzer, R., Watson, T. L., & Rolfs, M. (2018). All is not lost: Post-saccadic contributions to the perceptual omission of intra-saccadic streaks. Consciousness and Cognition, 64, 19-31.

Rolfs, M., Murray-Smith, N., & Carrasco, M. (2018). Perceptual learning while preparing saccades. Vision Research, 152, 126-138.

Ohl, S. & Rolfs, M. (2018). Saccadic selection of stabilized items in visuospatial working memory. Consciousness and Cognition, 64, 32-44.

van Heusden, E., Rolfs, M., Cavanagh, P., & Hogendoorn, H. (2018). Motion extrapolation for eye movements predicts perceived motion-induced position shifts. Journal of Neuroscience, 38, 8243-8250.

2017

Kalogeropoulou, Z. & Rolfs, M. (2017). Saccadic eye movements do not disrupt the deployment of feature-based attention. Journal of Vision, 17(8):4, 1-15.

Thakkar, K. N., Diwadkar, V. A., & Rolfs, M. (2017). Oculomotor prediction: a window into the psychotic mind. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 21, 344-356.

Ohl, S. & Rolfs, M. (2017). Saccadic eye movements impose a natural bottleneck on visual short-term memory. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, & Cognition, 43, 736-748.

Ohl, S. & Rolfs, M. (2017). Chances and challenges for an active visual search perspective. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 40, e150.

Kalogeropoulou, Z., Jagadeesh, A.V., Ohl, S., & Rolfs, M. (2017). Setting and changing feature priorities in Visual Short-Term Memory. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 24, 453-458.

Ohl, S., Kuper, C., & Rolfs, M. (2017). Selective enhancement of orientation tuning before saccades. Journal of Vision, 17(13):2, 1-11.

2016

Rolfs, M. (2016). Seeing causality with the motor system? Current Biology, 26, R1183-R1185.

Rolfs, M. & Dambacher, M. (2016). What draws the line between perception and cognition? Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 39, e257.

Rolfs, M.* & Szinte, M.* (2016). Remapping attention pointers: Linking physiology and behavior. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 20, 399-401. (*authors contributed equally)

White, A. & Rolfs, M. (2016). Oculomotor inhibition covaries with conscious detection. Journal of Neurophysiology, 116, 1507-1521.

Cassanello, C.R., Ohl, S., & Rolfs, M. (2016). Saccadic adaptation to a systematically varying disturbance. Journal of Neurophysiology, 116, 336-350.

Szinte, M., Jonikaitis, D., Rolfs, M., Cavanagh, P., & Deubel, H (2016). Presaccadic motion integration between current and future retinal locations of attended objects. Journal of Neurophysiology, 116, 1592-1602.

2015

White, A.L., Rolfs, M., & Carrasco, M. (2015). Stimulus competition mediates the joint effects of spatial and feature-based attention. Journal of Vision, 15(14):7, 1-21.

Rolfs, M. (2015). Attention in active vision: A perspective on perceptual continuity across saccades. Perception, 44, 900-919.

Rösler, M., Rolfs, M., van der Stigchel, S., Neggers, S. F. W., Cahn, W., Kahn, R. S., & Thakkar, K. N.(2015). Failure to use corollary discharge to remap visual target locations is associated with psychotic symptom severity in schizophrenia. Journal of Neurophysiology, 114:1129-1136.

Szinte, M., Carrasco, M., Cavanagh, P., & Rolfs, M. (2015). Attentional tradeoffs maintain the tracking of moving objects across saccades. Journal of Neurophysiology, 113, 2220-2231.

2013

Rolfs, M., Dambacher, M., & Cavanagh, P. (2013). Visual adaptation of the perception of causality. Current Biology, 23, 250-254.

Jonikaitis, D., Szinte, M., Rolfs, M., & Cavanagh, P. (2013). Allocation of attention across saccades. Journal of Neurophysiology, 109, 1425-1434.

White, A.L., Rolfs, M., & Carrasco, M. (2013). Adaptive deployment of spatial and feature-based attention before saccades. Vision Research, 85, 26-35.

Rolfs, M., Lawrence, B., & Carrasco, M. (2013). Reach preparation enhances visual performance and appearance. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 368, 20130057.

2012

Rolfs, M. & Carrasco, M. (2012). Rapid simultaneous enhancement of visual sensitivity and perceived contrast during saccade preparation. Journal of Neuroscience, 32, 13744-13752.

2011

Rolfs, M. & Ohl, S. (2011). Visual suppression in the superior colliculus around the time of microsaccades. Journal of Neurophysiology, 105, 1-3.

Rolfs, M., Jonikaitis, D., Deubel, H., & Cavanagh, P. (2011). Predictive remapping of attention across eye movements. Nature Neuroscience, 14, 252-256.

2010

Cavanagh, P., Hunt, A. R., Afraz, A., & Rolfs, M. (2010). Attentional Pointers: Response to Melcher. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 14, 474-475.

Cavanagh, P., Hunt, A. R., Afraz, A., & Rolfs, M. (2010). Attention Pointers: Response to Mayo and Sommer. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 14. 390-391.

Cavanagh, P., Hunt, A. R., Afraz, A., & Rolfs, M. (2010). Visual stability based on remapping of attention pointers. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 14, 147-153.

Laubrock, J., Kliegl, R., Rolfs, M., & Engbert, R. (2010). When do microsaccades follow spatial attention? Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 72, 683-694.

Knapen, T., Rolfs, M., Wexler, M., & Cavanagh, P. (2010). The reference frame of the tilt aftereffect. Journal of Vision, 10(1):8, 1-13.

Rolfs, M., Knapen, T., & Cavanagh, P. (2010). Global saccadic adaptation. Vision Research, 50, 1882-1890.

2009

Kliegl, R., Rolfs, M., Laubrock, J., & Engbert, R. (2009). Microsaccadic modulation of response times in spatial attention tasks. Psychological Research, 73, 136-146.

Dambacher, M., Rolfs, M., Göllner, K., Kliegl, R., & Jacobs, A. (2009). Event-related potentials reveal rapid verification of predicted visual input. PLoS One, 4(3), e5047.

Knapen, T., Rolfs, M., & Cavanagh, P. (2009). The reference frame of the motion aftereffect is retinotopic. Journal of Vision, 9(5):16, 1-6.

Collins, T.*, Rolfs, M.*, Deubel, H., & Cavanagh, P. (2009). Post-saccadic location judgments reveal remapping of saccade targets to non-foveal locations. Journal of Vision, 9(5):29, 1-9. (*authors contributed equally)

Rolfs, M. (2009). A neural mechanism for fixation instability. Science. (E Letter, 2 Jun 2009), http://www.sciencemag.org/content/323/5916/940/reply.

Rolfs, M. (2009). Microsaccades: Small steps on a long way. Vision Research, 49, 2415-2441.

2008

Thiel, M., Romano, M. C., Kurths, J., Rolfs, M., & Kliegl, R. (2008). Generating surrogates from recurrences. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 366, 545-557.

Kinder, A., Rolfs, M., & Kliegl, R. (2008). Sequence learning at optimal stimulus-response mapping: Evidence from a serial reaction time task. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 61, 203-209.

Rolfs, M., Laubrock, J., & Kliegl, R. (2008). Microsaccade-induced prolongation of saccadic latencies depends on microsaccade amplitude. Journal of Eye Movement Research, 1(3):1, 1-8.

Rolfs, M., Kliegl, R., & Engbert, R. (2008). Towards a model of microsaccade generation: The case of microsaccadic inhibition. Journal of Vision, 8(11):5, 1-23.

2007

Laubrock, J., Engbert, R., Rolfs, M., & Kliegl, R. (2007). Microsaccades are an index of covert attention: Commentary on Horowitz, Fine, Fencsik, Yurgenson, and Wolfe (2007). Psychological Science, 18, 364-366.

Rolfs, M. & Vitu, F. (2007). On the limited role of target onset in the gap task: Support for the motor-preparation hypothesis. Journal of Vision, 7(10):7, 1-20.

2006

Thiel, M., Romano, M. C., Kurths, J., Rolfs, M., & Kliegl, R. (2006). Twin surrogates to test for complex synchronization. Europhysics Letters, 75, 535-541.

Romano, M. C., Thiel, M., Kurths, J., Rolfs, M., Engbert, R., & Kliegl, R. (2006). Synchronization analysis and recurrence in complex systems. In B. Schelter, M. Winterhalder, & J. Timmer (Eds.). Handbook of Time Series Analysis. Berlin: Wiley-VCH.

Rolfs, M., Laubrock, J., & Kliegl, R. (2006). Shortening and prolongation of saccade latencies following microsaccades. Experimental Brain Research, 169, 369-376.

2005

Rolfs, M., Engbert, R., & Kliegl, R. (2005). Crossmodal coupling of oculomotor control and spatial attention in vision and audition. Experimental Brain Research, 166, 427-439.

2004

Kliegl, R., Grabner, E., Rolfs, M., & Engbert, R. (2004). Length, frequency, and predictability effects of words on eye movements in reading. European Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 16, 262-284.

Rolfs, M., Engbert, R., & Kliegl, R. (2004). Microsaccade orientation supports attentional enhancement opposite to a peripheral cue. Psychological Science, 15, 705-707.