Ronald Noë teaches ethology, behavioral ecology and human evolution at the University of Strasbourg, France. He studied biology in Groningen and got his PhD in Utrecht, both in his native country, The Netherlands. He held positions at the University of Zürich, Switzerland and at the Max-Planck Institute in Seewiesen, near Munich in Germany, before moving to France in 1998. Most of his research ...

Ronald Plasterk is director of the Hubrecht Laboratory in Utrecht, the Netherlands, and professor of Developmental Genetics at Utrecht University. His work on the regulation of transposition in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans led him to study the regulatory roles of small RNAs in animal development. He has developed methods for knocking-out genes in animals, such as nematodes and zebrafish....

This past decade has seen a great resurgence of interest in the perception of change. Change has, of course, long been recognized as a phenomenon worthy of study, and vision scientists have given their attention to it at various times in the past (for a review, see Rensink, 2002a). But things seem different this time around. This time, there is an emerging belief that instead of being just anot...