We have a new paper just published in the Journal of Neuroscience. In this paper, we investigated visual field anisotropies, but specifically when visual stimuli appeared in the temporal vicinity of rapid saccadic eye movements. Past work has shown that visual perceptual performance is either the same or significantly better (depending on the stimulus conditions)[…]

At the end of the systems vision summer school that our lab contributed to recently, there was a very interesting and multidisciplinary research symposium. The symposium covered different aspects of vision and with a variety of techniques. There were talks related to theory, psychophysics, brain imaging, neurophysiology, computational models, and even pictorial art. Our lab[…]

Our lab contributed to this year’s Systems Vision Science Summer School in Tübingen. Our contribution was led by Carlotta Trottenberg, Matthias Baumann, and Tong Zhang, and it covered our experiments on the active vision loop (image below), with a focus on the superior colliculus (the topic of choice for our session at the summer school).[…]

Our lab is participating in this year’s Gordon Research Conference (GRC) on Eye Movements. This is the first time that this special conference takes place since 2019, so it feels even more special than it already is! The conference brings together a group of experts on different aspects of eye movement research, from sensation to[…]

We have an exciting new paper published in the Journal of Neurophysiology! The paper appears in the Special Collection titled “Now and Then“, featuring “articles that compare how our concepts, ideas, and methods have changed in the neurosciences“. In our paper, we explored a highly ubiquitous phenomenon in vision science: every time a sensory transient[…]

Our lab is participating in this summer’s scientific program of the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics on Statistical Learning in the Brain (BrainLearn23). The program is taking place at the University of California, Santa Barbara in California’s golden coast. The program involves a large group of scientists from multiple disciplines and many locations across the[…]

This month, the University of Helsinki held a fantastic multi-disciplinary conference on “Mind and Matter“. It included many interesting discussions on consciousness, language, perception, and even dreams! The event included psychologists, philosophers, and computational neurobiologists. Ziad Hafed participated with a keynote address describing our neurophysiological investigations on active perception. The talk was very well received,[…]

Our lab participated at this year’s annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society (VSS), which took place in St. Pete Beach, Florida. We had several exciting presentations spanning a wide range of topics, and they were all very well received by the community! Tong started it all out by giving an excellent talk at the[…]

Our entire lab was very happy to participate in this year’s Primate Neurobiology Conference, which took place at the German Primate Center in Göttingen. This was the first time that this conference happened after it was interrupted for several years by the pandemic, and we look forward to hosting next year’s version right here in[…]

We have a new review article in press about the fascinating visual functions of the primate superior colliculus (SC). The article appears in this year’s issue of Annual Review of Vision Science, and an early version of it can already be read at this link. Our review article summarizes recent observations about the visual feature[…]