Volcic Lab

Welcome to the website of Robert Volcic’s lab at New York University Abu Dhabi.

The human perceptual world is intrinsically multisensory, tightly linked to exploratory actions, and, influenced by our interactions with the surrounding environment. Our lab thus tries to bridge the research fields of multisensory perception and perception and action to understand the role vision and haptics (touch and proprioception) play in perceiving spatial properties of objects and their arrangement in the world, how these senses are used to guide prehension movements (reaching and grasping), and, how active motor behavior, in turn, affects sensory processing. To investigate these topics my research program leverages a wide range of experimental and methodological tools, including psychophysics, behavioral techniques, movement tracking, computational modeling, virtual reality (VR), and Bayesian statistics.