Prof. Dr. Martin Rolfs
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8214-8556
Martin Rolfs chairs the Active Perception and Cognition group at the Department of Psychology. He studied Psychology at Potsdam University (Diploma in 2003) and obtained his PhD in 2007 (summa cum laude). For his dissertation, he received the Heinz-Heckhausen prize of the German Psychological Society in 2008. From 2008 to 2012, he was a postdoc at Université Paris Descartes, and Marie Curie fellow at New York University and Aix-Marseille University. In 2012, he established an Emmy Noether group at the Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience Berlin. In 2018, he started a DFG-funded Heisenberg professorship at the Department of Psychology. In 2019, he was awarded an ERC Consolidator grant for the project "VIS-À-VIS: How visual action shapes active vision".
Rolfs is a PI at the Exzellenzcluster Science of Intelligence, the Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience Berlin, the Berlin School of Mind and Brain, and the Einstein Center for Neurosciences Berlin.
Organisational Affiliations
Projects
09/2026 - 08/2029 | |
01/2026 - | |
05/2022 - 12/2025 | |
02/2021 - 01/2024 | |
01/2021 - 12/2025 | |
10/2020 - 05/2024 | |
10/2020 - 05/2023 | |
10/2019 - 11/2024 | |
10/2019 - 05/2023 | |
10/2019 - 05/2023 | |
09/2019 - 03/2024 | |
01/2019 - 12/2025 | |
01/2019 - | |
01/2019 - 12/2021 | |
09/2018 - 11/2021 | |
05/2018 - 12/2022 | |
01/2018 - 09/2020 | |
09/2017 - 07/2021 | |
01/2017 - 12/2017 | |
10/2016 - 12/2018 |
Publications
- R S, T W, J W, M R (2019)
The Joy of Retinal Painting: A Build-It-Yourself Device for Intrasaccadic Presentations.- Perception
- T B, R S, TL W, M R (2018)
All is not lost: Post-saccadic contributions to the perceptual omission of intra-saccadic streaks.- Consciousness and Cognition
- van Heusden E, Rolfs M, Cavanagh P, Hogendoorn H (2018)
Motion Extrapolation for Eye Movements Predicts Perceived Motion-Induced Position Shifts- The Journal of Neuroscience
- Ohl S, Rolfs M (2018)
Saccadic selection of stabilized items in visuospatial working memory- Consciousness and Cognition
- Ohl S, Rolfs M (2017)
Chances and challenges for an active visual search perspective- The Behavioral and brain sciences
- S O, M R (2017)
Chances and challenges for an active visual search perspective.- The Behavioral and brain sciences
- Thakkar K, Diwadkar V, Rolfs M (2017)
Oculomotor Prediction: A Window into the Psychotic Mind- Trends in Cognitive Sciences
- Z K, M R (2017)
Saccadic eye movements do not disrupt the deployment of feature-based attention.- Journal of Vision
- Ohl S, Rolfs M (2017)
Saccadic eye movements impose a natural bottleneck on visual short-term memory- Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition
- S O, C K, M R (2017)
Selective enhancement of orientation tuning before saccades.- Journal of Vision
- Kalogeropoulou Z, Jagadeesh A, Ohl S, Rolfs M (2017)
Setting and changing feature priorities in visual short-term memory- Psychonomic Bulletin and Review
- White A, Rolfs M (2016)
Oculomotor inhibition covaries with conscious detection- Journal of Neurophysiology
- Szinte M, Jonikaitis D, Rolfs M, Cavanagh P, Deubel H (2016)
Presaccadic motion integration between current and future retinotopic locations of attended objects- Journal of Neurophysiology
- Rolfs M, Szinte M (2016)
Remapping Attention Pointers: Linking Physiology and Behavior- Trends in Cognitive Sciences
- Cassanello C, Ohl S, Rolfs M (2016)
Saccadic adaptation to a systematically varying disturbance- Journal of Neurophysiology
- Rolfs M (2016)
Visual Neuroscience: Seeing Causality with the Motor System?- Current Biology
- Rolfs M and Dambacher M (2016)
What draws the line between perception and cognition?- The Behavioral and brain sciences
- Rolfs M, Dambacher M (2016)
What draws the line between perception and cognition?- The Behavioral and brain sciences
- White A, Rolfs M (2015)
A common cortical detection mechanism for perception and movement.- Journal of Vision





