The Homo Integralis Lab

Observers as sensory information integrators

Our lab is based at the School of Psychology at the University of Sydney. We investigate the brain with a focus on Perception and the underlying processes and neural substrates, etc.

Sensory Research

Our team focus on research in visual perception and sensory integration of sight, sound, touch, and cognitive processing.

Publications

Books

  • Verstraten, F. (2011). De wereld van onze Psyche. Netherlands: Home Academy.
  • Verstraten, F. (2006). Psychologie in een Notendop. Amsterdam: Prometheus Books.

Edited Books

  • Wijnen, F., Verstraten, F. (2001). Het brein te kijk: verkenning van de cognitieve neurowetenschappen. Amsterdam: Harcourt Education.

Book Chapters

  • Verstraten, F. (2012). De wil en wetenschappelijke vooruitgang. In Peters, M. (Eds.), Zijn wij ons brein?, (pp. 35-41). Utrecht: Studium Generale.
  • Verstraten, F., Kleber, R. (2012). Psychonomie en Cultuur: Verschillen in cognitieve Processen? In Jeroen Knipscheer and Rolf Kleber (Eds.), Psychologie en de multiculturele samenleving, (pp. 44-65). Amsterdam: Boom Uitgevers Amsterdam.
  • Wijnen, F., Verstraten, F. (2008). Cognitieve neurowetenschap. Een begripsbepaling en een kleine historie. In Frank Wines & Frans Verstraten (Eds.), Het brein te kijk: verkenning van de cognitieve neurowetenschappen. Amsterdam: Harcourt Education.

2024

  • Davidson, M., Verstraten, F., Alais, D. (2024). Walking entrains unique oscillations in performance on a visual detection task. Nature Communications. [More Information]
  • Davidson, M., Verstraten, F., Alais, D. (2024). Walking modulates visual detection performance according to stride cycle phase. Nature Communications, 15(1). [More Information]

2023

  • Davidson, M., Keys, R., Szekely, B., MacNeilage, P., Verstraten, F., Alais, D. (2023). Continuous peripersonal tracking accuracy is limited by the speed and phase of locomotion. Scientific Reports, 13(1), 14864. [More Information]

2022

  • Verstraten, F., Thompson, P., Meese, T. (2022). 50 Years of Perception. Perception, 51(3), 153-155. [More Information]
  • Theresa, P., Kurt, A., Li,, G., Verstraten, F., Brewster,, S., Mcgill,, M. (2022). Can Visual Motion Presented in a VR Headset Reduce Motion Sickness for Vehicle Passengers? Adjunct Proceedings – 14th International ACM Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications, AutomotiveUI 2022, : Springer Verlag.

Professor Frans Verstraten

Team
David Yu (PhD student)
Hala Abu Zahou (Phd student)
Renèll Rodrigues (PhD student)
Spike Yang (PhD student)

International colaborations
Frank Pollick (Glasgow)
Patrick Cavanagh (York, Canada)
Patrick Cavanagh(York,Canada)

Alumni
Maarten van der Smagt (1999)
Ryota Kanai (2005)
Chris Paffen (2005)
Martin Groen (2005)
Bjorn Vlaskamp (2006)

LEAD Professor

Frans Verstraten

Biography

Professor Frans Verstraten (MSc Radboud Univeristy Nijmegen 1990, PhD Utrecht University 1994) is the current McCaughey Chair of Psychology at the University of Sydney. He was the Head of School for 10 years 2013-2022). For 5 years, he was a board member of the Vision Sciences Society, world’s largest association for vision scientists (2010 till 2015), and was elected President from 2013 to 2014.

Researches​

Professor Verstraten is currently interested in the processes underlying perception when observers are moving. The experiments take place in movement simulators and virtual reality environments. His team members measure psychophysical performance as well as neurophysiological performance indicators.

Collaboration

  • Netherlands

(Utrecht University) Projects: 1. Functional role of motion adaptation 2. Temporal aspects of object representation

  • United Kingdom

(University of Dundee) Historical aspects of Vision Science (professor Nick Wade)

Alumni

Maarten van der Smagt

Full Professor, Director of Education at Utrecht University, the Netherlands

Ryota Kanai

CEO at Araya Brain Imaging,
Tokyo, Japan

Chris Paffen

Full Professor, Director of Education at Utrecht University, the Netherlands

Martin Groen

Utrecht Institute of Linguistics OTS (UiL OTS), Netherlands

Bjorn Vlaskamp

Head of /Quantified Experience at Magic Leap, Florida (USA)

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