Arnold Ziesche


Technische Universität Chemnitz-Zwickau
Fakultät für Informatik
Künstliche Intelligenz
09107 Chemnitz, Germany

Phone: +49 371 531-38449
E-mail: arnoldziesche@uni-muenster.de
Benjamin-zipser

Research Project

A model of peri-saccadic space representation in parietal cortex.

When we move our eyes the image of the world on the retina shifts rapidly. Yet, we do not perceive any such shifts, rather the world appears stable to us despite our eye movements. In this research project we build a dynamical neural model of the lateral intraparietal area (LIP) which is known to integrate stimulus position information with various kinds of eye position information. Using this model we can show how the brain uses these different kinds of information to form a stable percept of the world. We explain several distinct kinds of behavioural phenomena known from the literature about situations where this stable percept fails, as well as electrophysiological data about the temporal and spatial characteristica of the responsiveness of visual neurons in LIP.

Promotion Committee

Prof. Dr. Fred Hamker (Supervisor)
Prof. Dr. Markus Lappe
Prof. Dr. Norbert Sachser

Publications

Journal articles:

Ziesche, A. & Hamker, F.H. (2011). A Computational Model for the Influence of Corollary Discharge and Proprioception on the Perisaccadic Mislocalization of Briefly Presented Stimuli in Complete Darkness.
The Journal of Neuroscience, 31(48):17392–17405. pdf

Hamker, F. H., Zirnsak, M., Ziesche, A., Lappe, M. (2010). Computational models of spatial updating in peri-saccadic perception. Philosophical Transactions B, 366(1564):554-71.


Book chapters:


Boström, K. J., Honnacker, A., Ziesche, A. (2009). Acting on Gaps? John Searle's Conception of Free Will. In: John R. Searle: Thinking About the Real World, Franken, D., Karakus, A., Michel, J. G. (eds), Ontos Verlag.

Ziesche, A. (2009). Maschinelle Intelligenz – ein Modell für menschliche Kognition! In: Physikalismus, Willensfreiheit, Künstliche Intelligenz, Backmann, M., and Michel, J. G. (eds), mentis-Verlag, pp. 221-225

Honnacker, A., Michel, J. G., Richter, M. W., Weber, A. M., Ziesche, A. (2008). Substance Dualism Substantially Duelled. In: Richard Swinburne: Christian Philosophy in a Modern World, Mößner, N., Schmoranzer S., and Weidemann, C. (eds), Ontos Verlag, pp. 113-124


Conference Contributions

Ziesche, A. & Hamker, F.,  A computational model of perisaccadic mislocalization in total darkness using a binary eye position signal. Poster presented at the Conference of Computational and Systems Neuroscience (Cosyne), Salt Lake City, USA, 2008.

Ziesche, A. & Hamker, F.,  A computational neural network model of perisaccadic mislocalization in total darkness. Poster presented at the 18th Annual Computational Neuroscience Meeting (CNS), Berlin, Germany, 2009.

Ziesche, A. & Hamker, F.,  A computational neural network model of perisaccadic mislocalization in total darkness. Oral presentation at the 15th European Conference on Eye Movements (ECEM), Southampton, UK, 2009.

Ziesche, A. &  Hamker, F.. A computational model of predictive remapping and visual stability in area LIP. Poster presented at the 40th annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience , San Diego, California, USA, 2010.

Hamker, F., Ziesche, A. & Deubel, H.. Dynamic recurrent processing for coordinate transformation explains saccadic suppression of image displacement. Poster presented at the 10th annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society (VSS), Naples, Florida, USA, 2010.

Hamker, F. & Ziesche, A.. Computational mechanisms of predictive remapping and visual stability. Poster presented at the 1st FRENCH-BRITISH CONFERENCE ON VISUAL PERCEPTION, Paris, France, 2010.

Ziesche, A. & Hamker, F.. A computational model for visual stability by predictive remapping. Oral presentation at the 53. Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen (TeaP), Halle, Germany,  2011.

CV

*1980 in Braunschweig, Germany
2001-2003 Studies in Mathematics, Physics and Philosophy, University of Göttingen
2003-2004 Studies in Mathematics, Philosopy, University of California, Berkeley
2004-2010 Studies in Mathematics, Computer Science and Philosophy, University of Münster
2007 Diploma thesis, Mathematics, University of Münster, Title: An inpainting-based model of visual attention (Supervisor: Prof. Dr. X. Jiang)
2007 Beginning of PhD research project, Institute of Psychology, University of Münster
2009 Continuing PhD research project at the Institute of Artificial Intelligence, Chemnitz Technical University
2010 Magister (Master) thesis, Philosophy, University of Münster, Title: Der Begriff des Reinen Mechanismus (Supervisor: Prof. Dr. A. Hüttemann)
2011 PostDoc research project, Max Planck Institute for human cognitive and brain sciences, Leipzig (Supervisor: Dr. Stefan Kiebel)