Seeing is a turbulent process. With every eye movement, perception shifts: attention jumps ahead, visual impressions are amplified, suppressed, and reassembled. The fact that people experience the world as stable is one of the brain’s greatest achievements.
In the immersive space of the planetarium dome, Martin Rolfs and Nina Hanning make these hidden dynamics of vision tangible for the first time in a completely new dimension. They invite the audience to a live experiment in which current research is not only demonstrated but also experienced together.
Speakers:
Martin Rolfs, Professor of General Psychology: Active Perception and Cognition at the Institute of Psychology, Humboldt University of Berlin
Nina Hanning, Postdoc in the Active Perception and Cognition Research Group at the Institute of Psychology, Humboldt University of Berlin
Moderator: Dr. Jochen Müller
About Berlin Brains:
Berlin Brains is a joint event series organized by: Urania Berlin, the Berlin Planetarium Foundation, the Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience Berlin, the Einstein Center for Neuroscience, the Clusters of Excellence NeuroCure and Science of Intelligence, the Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute, the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association, Collaborative Research Center (SFB) 1315, Transregional Collaborative Research Center (TRR) 295 ReTune, and TRR 384 IN-CODE
- Admission is free. Tickets can be booked online through Urania. Please pick up your free tickets at the box office by 7:15 p.m.
Additional information
Dates
November 2026
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