Jeremy Badler

Alumni of the Department Sensory and Sensorimotor Systems

Main Focus

As Lab Manager, my focus is on the efficient operation of Zhaoping Li's department as a whole. That means ensuring all of the components run smoothly: students and postdocs work in synergy despite different core projects, equipment and computer programs function properly, protocols and procedures are followed, etc. It also means filling in on different tasks when necessary, for example during personnel transitions. On the science side, my experience in eye movements helps support existing visual psychophysics experiments, as well as open up possibilities for new ones.

Curriculum Vitae

I received my B.S.E. in Bioengineering from the University of Pennsylvania in 1995, and my M.S. in Bioengineering/Neuroscience from the Universities of California, San Francisco and Berkeley in 1999, with a focus on neural modeling. I spent the next eight years as a programmer and research assistant in oculomotor neurophysiology at the Smith-Kettlewell Institute in San Francisco, with a particular focus on anticipatory and predictive eye movements. In 2007 I went to Belgium and in 2011 received a Doctorate in Neuroscience from the University of Louvain (Brussels and Louvain-la-Neuve), looking at how the brain processes time and causality. Following my doctorate I worked on the neurophysiology of face processing via human fMRI, and computer-graphics modeling of eye movements. In 2013 I joined the Playable Innovative Technologies Lab at Northeastern University, where we looked the use of games as psychological research tools in order to make deductions about brain processes under more naturalistic stimulus conditions. In 2016 I returned to Smith-Kettlewell, where we used human psychophysics to study the relationship between ocular smooth pursuit and saccades, as well as mechanisms of binocular control and their relationship to strabismus.

Selected publications:

Badler, J.B., Watamaniuk, S.N.J. & Heinen, S.J. (2019). A common mechanism modulates saccade timing during pursuit and fixation. Journal of Neurophysiology 122, 1981-1988.

Heinen, S.J., Badler, J.B. & Watamaniuk, S.N.J. (2018). Choosing a foveal goal recruits the saccadic system during smooth pursuit. Journal of Neurophysiology 120, 489–496.

Badler J.B. & Canossa A. (2015). Anticipatory Gaze Shifts during Navigation in a Naturalistic Virtual Environment. ACM SIGCHI Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play (CHI PLAY), London, United Kingdom, October 2015.

Canossa A., Badler J.B., Seif El-Nasr M., Tignor S. & Colvin C.R. (2015). In Your Face(t): Impact of Personality and Context on Gameplay Behavior. Foundations of Digital Games Conference (FDG), Pacific Grove, CA, June 2015.

Jiang, F., Badler, J.B., Righi, G. & Rossion, B. (2015). Category search speeds up face-selective fMRI responses in a non-hierarchical cortical face network. Cortex, 66, 69-80.

Ruhland K., Andrist S., Badler J.B., Peters C., Badler N.I., Gleicher M., Mutlu B. & McDonnell R. (2014). Look Me in the Eyes: A survey of eye and gaze animation for virtual agents and artificial systems. In Eurographics 2014-State of the Art Reports (pp. 69-91). The Eurographics Association.

Normoyle A., Badler J.B., Fan T., Badler N.I., Cassol V.J. & Musse S.R. (2013). Evaluating perceived trust from procedurally animated gaze. In Proceedings of the Motion on Games (pp. 119-126). ACM.

Badler J.B., Lefèvre P. & Missal M. (2012). Divergence between oculomotor and perceptual causality. Journal of Vision, 12(5):3, 1-15; doi:10.1167/12.5.3.

Badler J., Lefèvre P. & Missal M. (2010). Causality attribution biases oculomotor responses. Journal of Neuroscience 30: 10517-10525; doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1733-10.2010.

Badler J.B., Lefèvre P. & Missal M. (2008). Anticipatory pursuit is influenced by a concurrent timing task. Journal of Vision, 8(16):5, 1-9; doi:10.1167/8.16.5.

Badler J.B. & Heinen S.J. (2006). Anticipatory movement timing using prediction and external cues. Journal of Neuroscience 26, 4519-4525.

Kim Y.-G., Badler J.B. & Heinen, S.J. (2005). Trajectory interpretation by supplementary eye field neurons during ocular baseball. Journal of Neurophysiology 94(2), 1385-1391.

Heinen, S.J., Badler, J.B. & Ting, W. (2005). Timing and velocity randomization similarly affect anticipatory pursuit. Journal of Vision 5(6): 1; doi:10.1167/5.6.1.

Badler, J.B. & Keller, E.L. (2002). Decoding of a motor command vector from distributed activity in superior colliculus. Biological Cybernetics 86, 179-189.

Lee S.P., Badler J.B. & Badler N.I. (2002). Eyes Alive. ACM Transactions on Graphics 21, 637-644.

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