Golomb Lab
Principal Investigator: Julie D Golomb
Institution: The Ohio State University (Columbus, OH)
Primary Subfield: Neuroscience
Recruitment Status: Inquire for rotation/fellowship opportunities
Research Focus
Project Summary The overarching goal of this research is to better understand the human visual system, and how objects and their locations are perceived and represented in the brain. The proposal investigates a fundamental challenge for our visual systems: Visual information is coded relative to the eyes, but the eyes are constantly moving. How, then, do we achieve spatial stability? The world does not appear to “jump” with each eye movement, but this seamless percept belies a complicated computational process. Moreover, spatial localization is not an isolated process; it interacts with attention, object recognition, depth perception, memory, cognitive control, and more. Research under prior award periods made substantial contributions to understanding visual stability in terms of both how spatial information is represented (or “remapped”) across eye movements, and how spatial information is integrated with these other processes to interact with feature and object recognition. A series of exciting behavioral findings revealed novel insight into roles of dynamic context and top-down attentional control in visual stability and integration. Moreover, our progress on developing innovat…
Active NIH Awards
- 2R01EY025648-11: Neural and perceptual mechanisms of spatial stability across eye movements (2026)
- 5R01EY025648-10: Neural and perceptual mechanisms of spatial stability across eye movements (2025)
- 5R01EY025648-09: Neural and perceptual mechanisms of spatial stability across eye movements (2024)
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