Colour Vision:

Seminars and practicals on the neurophysiological foundations of colour vision and psychophysical methods.
Graduate School of Neural and Behavioural Sciences, Max Planck Institutes / University of Tübingen. Prize for ‘Best practicals 2003’.

Sensorimotor Coordination:

Seminars and practicals on sensorimotor coordination, focussing on methods and recent publications.
Department of Cognitive Neurology (Hertie-Institute) in cooperation with the Departments of Medical Psychology,
Behavioural Neurobiology and the Centre for Ophthalmology Tübingen. 2 week course during winter term.

Methods in Psychophysics:

An introduction into testing visual functions. For students of medicine, biology, bioinformatics and psychology. Weekly course during winter term.

Animal Physiology and Neuroethology:

Practicals and seminars on animal neurophysiology, neuroethology and psychophysics for biology undergraduate and graduate students. University of Tübingen and Free University of Berlin.

Sensory Physiology:

Practicals on sensory physiology for medical students; psychophysical testing of visual and auditory functions. Free University of Berlin.

Neurophysiology and Psychophysics of Vision:

Lectures on optics and physiological foundations of vision.
Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Optometry.

Tübinger Sommeruniversität 2009: "Farbe – Wahrnehmung oder Illusion? Wie unser Gehirn die Welt in Farbe taucht„. [Tübingen Summer University 2009: "Colour – perception or deception? How our brain colours the world."]

Note: Reading out aloud the names of colours is difficult when the colour names do not correspond to their perceived colours (see text on the right)

Interdisziplinäres Forum Schnittstelle "Mensch" Hören und Sehen: "Goethes Farbwelten". Universität Tübingen, 2009.

[Second Interdisciplinary Forum "Human Interface" Hearing and Seeing: "Goethe’s Colour Worlds". Tübingen University 2009.]

Kinder-Uni Forscher Tag 2007, Tübingen: “Warum wir unseren Augen manchmal nicht trauen können…„ ["Why we can’t always trust our eyes..." Lecture and experiments for children aged 8-12 on how our visual system works and why it can be tricked. July 7th 2007, University Eye Hospital Tübingen.]

Note: The hat is as wide as it is tall, and the elephant has an impossible number of legs!

Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften “Sehen: Wirklichkeit oder Täuschung?„ ["The world as we see it: reality or illusion?“ Demonstrations of some of the most powerful visual illusions.] July 5th, 2005, University Hospital Tübingen.

Note: All the concentric lines are in fact proper circles, and on the right hand side the square A and B noth have the same luminance ... they are photometrically identical, but not identical in our perception.

2. Tag der Gesundheitsforschung. "What happens when we see?“. How the eye and brain transform light into vision. 19th February, 2005.