My research investigates how the amazing brain makes sense of the world seen by the eye. I'm interested in all areas of visual processing, but I use the insect brain as a ‘simple’ model system to study mechanisms for tracking and focusing attention on moving features. Despite their small size, insects are surprisingly sophisticated. We are often surprised by our own results: We have found several properties that we assumed were unique to the human brain right there inside the tiny brain of dragonflies and other insects!