Our lab participated in this year’s departmental retreat in Obermarchtal. We presented three talks about our ongoing projects. It was a great experience to interact with other department members about our and their science. Most of us also went to Obermarchtal by bike, through the beautiful Lautertal region to the south of Tuebingen. It was[…]

We have a new paper in press at Frontiers in Neural Circuits! The paper is part of a Special Research Topic on “The Superior Colliculus/Tectum: Cell Types, Circuits, Computations, and Behaviors”. Our study complements this one and this one from our lab, and it continues our efforts to explore the visual processing properties of the primate[…]

We have a new exciting paper in press at Nature Communications. The paper continues our recent attempts at characterizing the visual functions of the primate superior colliculus (SC). Here, we characterized spatial frequency tuning characteristics of neurons in the SC. We found that, indeed, SC neurons exhibit their own preferences for individual spatial frequencies. Interestingly,[…]

We have developed a novel, state-of-the-art algorithm for detecting saccades and microsaccades in eye movement traces. The algorithm, based on deep neural networks, achieves human-level performance, and it is also able to detect post-saccadic oscillations as well as eye blinks. The algorithm outperforms existing algorithms on benchmark data sets, as well as on our in-house[…]