Center for Visual Cognition (CVC)

Center for Visual Cognition (CVC) is located at the Department of Psychology on the University of Copenhagen. The Center was founded in 1993. The research at CVC consists in experimental and theoretical studies in visual cognition. The experimental research is focused on visual attention, object recognition, formation and transformation of mental images, and perception of apparent movement. The theoretical work comprises a computational theory of selective attention in vision (Theory of Visual Attention, TVA) and a computational model of visual recognition (a Template-Matching Pandemonium, TMP).

The Center has been supported by major grants and has received a number of prizes including the Aristotle Prize in Psychology to Claus Bundesen in 2009, the Sapere Aude Prize (DFF-Young Elite Researcher Starting Grant) to Søren Kyllingsbæk in 2010 and to Thomas Habekost & Randi Starrfelt in 2012, and the Carlsberg Foundation Research Prize in Humanities and Social Science to Claus Bundesen in 2013. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Center for Visual Cognition contributes to teaching at the Department of Psychology:

On the bachelor programme

  • All education (grundfag and valgfag) at the BA-level in Cognitive Psychology
  • Supervision of BA theses (Cognitive Psychology)
  • Teaching of Statistics
  • "Forskningsaktivitet som valgfag" (research electives) at 5 or 10 ECTS

On the master programme

  • All types of teaching and supervision in Cognitive Psychology
  • "Forskningspraktik" (trainee period) at CVC or with collaborators
  • "Forskningsaktivitet som valgfag" (research electives) at 5 or 10 ECTS

Master thesis

Participate in our research

Interested students at BA and MA levels are welcome to participate in the projects as volunteer assistants. 

Interested? Contact signe.vangkilde@psy.ku.dk or thomas.habekost@psy.ku.dk

International students

Are you an international student interested in visiting CVC? Please send an email to Signe Vangkilde or Thomas Habekost describing the particular reasons for choosing our lab, and your thoughts about how you might participate during your visit. General requests without specific reference to our ongoing projects may not receive a response.

 

 

If you want to participate in our research, you must create an account on our booking-site (SONA). Please, follow the link:

CVC Booking-site

Furthermore, you can follow us on Facebook to get updates about research studies, that you can participate in.

 

 

We have lab meetings every Friday afternoon, a tradition that has been kept over 15 years. Here researchers at the center take turns presenting their current projects or we invite external speakers for new input. Practical matters, especially concerning lab equipment and social events, are also coordinated at these meetings. Interested students are welcome to participate. 

Lab Meeting Schedule

 

Download LIBTVA here.

By using LIBTVA you accept the following license:

This software is Copyright of Mads Dyrholm, Center for Visual Cognition, Copenhagen. All rights reserved. You may not re-distribute it, nor distribute any parts hereof in any form. This work is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. THIS SOFTWARE AND DOCUMENTATION IS PROVIDED "AS IS," AND COPYRIGHT HOLDERS MAKE NO REPRESENTATIONS OR
WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO, WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PARTICULAR PURPOSE OR THAT THE USE OF THE SOFTWARE OR DOCUMENTATION WILL NOT INFRINGE ANY THIRD PARTY PATENTS, COPYRIGHTS, TRADEMARKS OR OTHER RIGHTS. COPYRIGHT HOLDERS WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, SPECIAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF ANY USE OF THE SOFTWARE OR DOCUMENTATION. Title to copyright in this software and any associated documentation will at all times remain with copyright holders.

 

 

 

Offices: 4th floor
Experimental rooms: 5th floor

NB. If you are to participate in an experiment, go to the top floor (5th) and await a research assistant.

Contact to the center have to go through the coordinators:

Professor Signe Vangkilde
Department of Psychology 
University of Copenhagen
Øster Farimagsgade 2A (3.4.413a)
DK-1353 Copenhagen K

E-mailsigne.vangkilde@psy.ku.dk
Phone: +45 35 32 48 85

Professor Thomas Habekost
Department of Psychology
University of Copenhagen
Øster Farimagsgade 2A (3.4.413b)
DK-1353 Copenhagen K

E-mail: thomas.habekost@psy.ku.dk
Phone: +45 35 32 48 60

International students

Are you an international student interested in visiting our center? Please send an e-mail to Signe Vangkilde or Thomas Habekost describing the particular reasons for choosing our lab, and your thoughts about how you might participate during your visit. General requests without specific reference to our ongoing projects may not receive a response.

 

 

 

Researchers

Name Title Phone E-mail
Petersen, Anders Associate Professor +4535324884 E-mail
Vangkilde, Signe Allerup Professor, Head of Studies +4535324885 E-mail
Blurton, Steven Associate Professor E-mail
Kyllingsbæk, Søren Professor +4535324861 E-mail
Habekost, Thomas Professor +4535324860 E-mail

Contact

Signe VangkildeSigne Vangkilde
Professor
E-mail
Tel. +45 35 32 48 85


Thomas HabekostThomas Habekost
Professor
E-mail
Tel. +45 35 32 48 60