Our lab was recently present in sunny San Diego for the 2022 Society for Neuroscience Annual Conference.
Besides participating in the Advances in Motor Control Satellite Conference, we also had two other presentations in the main conference.
In the first, Matthias Baumann continued to present interesting results on the sensory tuning of superior colliculus motor commands that we recently discovered. And, in the second, we showcased work by Fatemeh Khademi and Chih-Yang Chen demonstrating that superior colliculus visual responses are sensitive to the smallest possible scale of image displacements caused by the tiniest of fixational eye movements. This work is interesting because the image displacements are much smaller than the sizes of visual receptive fields in the superior colliculus. Yet, the neurons are able to faithfully detect them. This adds to the growing body of evidence that the primate superior colliculus is a potentially useful visual structure for the brain. The preprint of the work is available for reading here.
The conference was also a great opportunity to catch up with colleagues from all over the world, especially after the disruption by the pandemic.
