Dr. Kai Markus Schreiber, PhD
Assistant Instructor
Center for Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience
197 University Avenue
Rutgers Newark
Newark, NJ 07102
USA
tel: ++1 973 353 1080 x3234
E-mail: schreiber@genista.de.
My private homepage.
Updated July 17, 2009
Research interests
I'm currently working on the detection of oculomotor signals in early visual cortex using machine learning algorithms and FMRI.
Biography
Education / Work Experience
- 2007-
- Assistant Instructor at the Center for Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience, Rutgers Newark (with Dr. Bart Krekelberg).
- 2003-2007
- Postdoctoral fellow at the School of Optometry, UC Berkeley (with Dr. Clifton Schor).
- 1999-2003
- PhD in the Department of Physiology, University of Toronto (with Dr. Douglas Tweed).
- 1999
- Internship at Titanic, Frankfurt.
- 1999
- Freelance work for Senso-Motoric Instruments (SMI), Berlin.
- 1998
- Satirical contender in the mayoral elections in Tübingen.
- 1998-1999
- Research assistant at the Neurology Department of the University Hospital Tübingen.
- 1994-1999
- Co-founder and editor of the satirical radio show Eure Tagesordnung.
- 1996-1998
- Research assistant at the Insitut für Hirnforschung at the University Tübingen.
- 1994
- Internship at the Schwäbisches Tagblatt, Tübingen.
- 1991-1999
- Philosophikum, University of Tübingen.
- 1991-1999
- Diplom in Physics, University of Tübingen (with Dr. Hanns Ruder).
Awards
- 2003
- Awarded a Emmy-Noether Postdoctoral Research Fellowship by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft.
- 2003
- Nominated by the Department of Physiology at the University of Toronto for the Governor General's Gold Medal for best thesis.
- 2002
- Brain-Star Award of the Canadian Institutes for Health Research, 01.01.2002
- 2001
- First price at the poster competition of the Annual Neuroscience Poster Day, University of Toronto, 26.04.2001
- 2000
- Fellowship of the Deutscher Akademischen Austauschdienstes (DAAD - German academic exchange service) for PhD research.
Coding
- A program for managing BiBTeX reference libraries and digital paper collections, called BiBLE. It's free!
- A software package implementing the adaptive staircase method developed by Tyler and Kontsevich (1999) for Delphi, Visual Basic, C/C++ and Matlab. Read details and download the package here.
Publications
Journal Articles
- Blohm G, Khan AZ, Ren L, Schreiber KM, Crawford JD: Depth estimation from retinal disparity requires eye and head orientation signals. J Vis 8(16):3.1-23 (2008)
- KM Schreiber, JM Hillis, HR Filippini, CM Schor and MS Banks: The surface of the empirical horopter. J Vis 8(3) (2007)
- KM Schreiber, DB Tweed and Clifton M. Schor: A Virtual Ophthalmotrope Illustrating Oculomotor Coordinate Systems and Retinal Projection Geometry. J Vis 7(10) (2007)
- KM Schreiber, DB Tweed and Clifton M. Schor: The Extended Horopter: Quantifying Retinal Correspondence Across Changes of 3D Eye Position. J Vis 6(2):64-74 (2006)
- KM Schreiber and T Haslwanter: A New Calibration Method for 3-D Video Oculography, IEEE Trans Biomed Eng 51(4):676-9.
- KM Schreiber and DB Tweed: Influence of Eye Position On Stereo Matching, Strabismus 11(1):9-16.
- KM Schreiber, JD Crawford, M Fetter and DB Tweed: The Motor Side of Depth Vision, Nature 410(6380):819-22.
Abstracts
- KM Schreiber, CM Schor: Retinal Correspondence and the Empirical Horopter ECVP, St Petersurg, Russia, 2006.
- KM Schreiber, CM Schor: What is Retinal Disparity? VisionSciences Society meeting, Sarasota, Florida, 2006.
- KM Schreiber, Zhilei Zhang and CM Schor: The differential processing of disparity and slant of perceptual metamers in human occipital cortex, SfN 2005.
- J Maxwell, KM Schreiber, CM Schor: The effect of interstimulus time interval on saccade-vergence interactions. SfN 2005.
- KM Schreiber, ZL Zhang and CM Schor: Perceptual metamers in early visual cortex - an FMRI study. Soc Neuroscience Abstracts 2004.
- KM Schreiber and CM Schor: OMBUD - Visualizing the interaction of eye movements and binocular correspondence. Soc Neuroscience Abstracts 2004.
- KM Schreiber: Joint Encoding of Motion and Music in a Neuron in the Sea Monkey Artemia Salina - an Evolutionary Antecedent of Trouba Du? Soc Neuroscience Abstracts 2004.
- KM Schreiber and CM Schor: The Influence of Eye Movements on Retinal Correspondence and the Theoretical Horopter. ECVP 2004.
- KM Schreiber, HF Rose, JM Hillis, CM Schor and MS Banks: Eye Position And The 2D Pattern Of Retinal Correspondence. VSS 2004.
- KM Schreiber (2003) The Neural Correlate of Ignorance: an fMRI study. Soc. Neuroscience Abstracts 2003, 21.8.
- KM Schreiber and D. Tweed (2003) Visual Bootstrapping in the Stereovisual System. Soc. Neuroscience Abstracts 2003, 56.17.
- E Simeone, JC Martinez-Trujillo, M Pomplum, K Schreiber, JK Tsotsos (2003) Integration Time for Detecting Transient Changes in the Direction of Moving Simuli Change with Signal Intensity. Soc Neurosci Abstracts 2003, 353.4.
- KM Schreiber and D. Tweed (2002) Visual perception of impossible geometries: global constraints in stereopsis. European Conference on Visual Perception, Glasgow, August 2002.
- KM Schreiber and D. Tweed (2001) Visual perception of impossible geometries: local and global constraints in stereopsis, Frontiers in Physiology Conference, Toronto, 2002.
- KM Schreiber and D. Tweed (2001) Visual perception of impossible geometries: local and global constraints in stereopsis, Soc. Neuroscience Abstracts 2001, 164.15.
- KM Schreiber, JD Crawford, M Fetter and DB Tweed (2001) The motor side of depth vision. Annual Neuroscience Poster Day, Toronto. 26.04.2001.
- KM Schreiber, JD Crawford, M Fetter and DB Tweed (2001) The motor side of depth vision. Frontiers in Physiology, Toronto. 27.02.2001.
- KM Schreiber, JD Crawford, M Fetter and DB Tweed (2000) Depth vision relies on a binocular form of Listing's Law. Soc. Neuroscience Abstracts 2000, 745.13.
- KM Schreiber and T Haslwanter. (1999) Limits in measuring three dimensional eye movements using video-oculography devices. ESF-Conference 3-d sensory and motor space in Castelvecchio Pascoli im April 1999.
Monographs
- KM Schreiber Sensorimotor Interaction in Stereopsis, Genista, Tübingen, 2003 (PhD thesis).
- KM Schreiber Erstellung und Optimierung von Algorithmen zur Messung von Augenbewegungen mittels 3D-Video-Okulographie-Methoden, Genista, Tübingen, 1999 (Diplom).
Other Scientific Publications
KM Schreiber. Licking the interface. (2001) In: Sciences of the Interface. Proceedings of the international symposion.