Our lab participated in this year’s Computational and Systems Neuroscience (COSYNE) conference, which took place in Lisbon, Portugal.
We investigated intriguing new properties of saccade-related motor bursts in the superior colliculus (SC). A popular view of these bursts is that they dictate moment-to-moment eye movement execution properties. However, our results suggest that these “movement commands” are likely to be a higher-level representation of what the SC computes as the next desired eye movement target, as well as what the visual consequences of the eye movement will be.
Stay tuned for a detailed writeup of these intriguing new observations.
