Our university had a massive open house (Tübingen’s window on research) for the public, in which different labs presented their ongoing research to members of the public in an appealing and entertaining way. Our lab participated in the event by presenting an eye tracking demo, which proved highly attractive among all age groups! Some of[…]

We have a new paper in press at Current Biology. In this paper, we did extensive neurophysiological and structural investigation of the foveal visual representation of the primate superior colliculus (SC). The SC has historically been viewed, in primates, as primarily a gaze shifting structure. It was thus generally assumed that foveal visual scene analysis is the purview[…]

Our lab is participating in this year’s annual Vision Sciences Society (VSS) conference in VSS. Matthias is giving a talk on his intriguing results on saccadic suppression. Some of these results could be read here.