Klinik für Augenheilkunde

Research interests

Evoked and event-related potentials

• Objective assessment of visual function
• Attentional modulation of event-related potentials
• Methodological issues, e.g., in signal analysis

Psychophysics

• Perceptual and cognitive factors in testing of visual function
• Quantification of subjective perceptual experience
• Real-life relevance of measures of visual performance
• Malingering-resistant testing of visual performance
• Signal detection theory and decision making in forced-choice situations

Electroretinography

• Applications in psychiatry
• Stimulation-induced alternation of retinal function
• Improved signal analysis

Eye movements and pupillometry

• Using saccades to measure visual performance

List of publications from PubMed (does not show publications outside the scope of PubMed).

Other professional functions

• Co-chair, Functional Assessment Working Group (German Ophthalmological Society)
• Appointed Member, Committee for Quality Assurance (German Ophthalmological Society)
• Member of steering committee, project "Diagnostic Visual Function Research: Building Capacity in Africa" (see DiVFuR Lab)

Current and recent cooperations (selection)

• Prof. Ludger Tebartz van Elst (Psychiatry, Freiburg, Germany)
• Prof. Claus Normann (Psychiatry, Freiburg, Germany)
• PD Dr. Jürgen Kornmeier & Dr. Ellen Joos (IGPP, Freiburg, Germany)
• Prof. Michael Hoffmann (Ophthalmology, Magdeburg, Germany)
• Prof. Sascha Klee (Medical Engineering, Ilmenau, Germany / Biostatistics, Krems a.d. Donau, Austria)
• Dr. Enyam Morny (University of Cape Coast, Ghana)
• Prof. Amal Elgohary (Research Institute of Ophthalmology, Giza, Cairo, Egypt)
• Dr. Philipp Rating (Ophthalmology, Essen, Germany
   
• Africa Center for Transregional Research