“NeNa is an annual conference organised by doctoral students from the vibrant neuroscience community of Tübingen”.
This year, Matthias joined the conference and gave an oral presentation on his exciting work investigating the role of visual flow in dictating the properties of perceptual saccadic suppression! He showed that reductions of visual sensitivity around the time of rapid saccadic eye movements are dictated by the impacts of image flow associated with the rapid eyeball rotations. This is interesting because a large fraction of hypotheses on saccadic suppression has been focusing on an alternative mechanism, in which the saccade motor command itself internally sends a suppressive command to the visual system. In Matthias’ work, it is the shift in image caused during the eyeball rotation that plays an important role in dictating certain properties of perceptual saccadic suppression.
