We have a new paper in press in the international journal, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. This paper is part of our ongoing collaboration with the lab of Prof. Masatoshi Yoshida, from the National Institute for Physiological Sciences in Okazaki, Japan.
The paper describes an interesting perspective on the role of the primate superior colliculus (SC), a midbrain structure that we are heavily interested in studying, in computing visual saliency. The latter concept relates to how different parts of a given retinal image can be more conspicuous than others, for a variety of reasons, allowing behavior (e.g. eye movements) to prioritize them in processing.
Our framework allows interesting predictions on the detailed circuit-level mechanisms of the SC for both visual processing and eye movement behavior, which we hope to further elucidate with our ongoing collaboration.