Directed by Prof. Dr. Nikolaus Troje, the lab is located at York University in Toronto, Ontario.
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Today's lab meeting at @BioMotionLab
with Xiaoye Michael Wang, Niko Troje, Ashley Funkhouser, Viswajet Kumar, Max Esser, Adam Bebko, Sia Eftekharifar, Anne Thaler, Saeed Ghorbani.
Using #VirtualReality in trial-based, factorial experiments in #VisionResearch can be cumbersome. In the BioMotionLab @yorkuniversity, we developed a toolbox for @unity3d that makes experimental design and execution easy and convenient. For details visit https://biomotionlab.ca/tux/
https://jov.arvojournals.org/article.aspx?articleid=2764419
Cover story of the current @ARVOJOV issue: Using a new tool developed @BioMotionLab, we work with a magic frame that behaves like a picture or a window to study perception of pictures vs perception in the world. @jlugiessen, @YUResearch, @vistayorku
Here's my column on parks as the fulcrum points in the "constant, experimental push-pull between social norms and legal restrictions, trust and compulsion, freedom and constraint" -- and the pandemic-fighting importance of keeping them open.
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Opinion: We learn to fight this thing together by keeping parks open
The experimental push-pull between social norms and legal restrictions, trust and compulsion, is best displayed in the public green space
www.theglobeandmail.com
BMLmovi, a new database from @BioMotionLab with 9h mocap + 17h synchronized and calibrated video + 7h of IMU + MoSh reconstructed body shape is now up on Dataverse. Help yourself and go nuts. @dataverseorg @YorkUScience @yorkuniversity @vistayorku
https://dataverse.scholarsportal.info/dataverse/MoVi
Goals
Our main research interest is focused on questions concerning the nature of perceptual representations. How can a stream of noisy nerve cell excitations possibly be turned into the coherent and predictable perception of a “reality”? We work on questions involving the processing of sensory information, perception, cognition and communication.
Topics
People perception: The biology and psychology of social recognition
- detection of animate agents
- conspecific recognition
- gender recognition
- individual recognition
- action recognition
- recognition of emotions, personality traits and intentionality
- recognition of bodies, faces, and biological motion
Vision in virtual reality
- pictorial vs physical spaces
- space perception
- simulator sickness
- perception of self-motion (vection)
- multisensory integration
- perception of the own body
- the nature of presence
Visual ambiguities and perceptual biases
- depth ambiguities
- the “facing-the-viewer” bias
Network
Since moving to York University in 2018, the Biomotion Lab has become an integral part of the multi-departmental Centre for Vision Research. Its main affiliation is with the Department of Biology in the Faculty of Science.
Students in the Biomotion Lab come from different graduate programs:
- Biology @ YorkU
- Psychology @ YorkU
- Electrical Engineering and Computer Science @ YorkU
- International Graduate School “The Brain in Action”
- Centre for Neuroscience Studies @ Queen’s University
Dr. Troje is a core member of the CFREF funded program “Vision: Science to Application” (VISTA). Other funding comes from
Other important affiliations include: