Christoph Ploner's workgroup aims at elucidating the functional neuroanatomy of trans-saccadic integration in the
normal brain by comparing the performance of normal subjects to patients with focal lesions of the
frontal cortex and thalamus. It is intended to use these patients as a model of defective visual
perception in neuro-psychiatric diseases, in which deficits in the awareness of one's own actions and
its sensory consequences may be a core deficit underlying seemingly disparate cognitive impairments.
