Our lab participated in this year’s annual oculomotor meeting of München, Tübingen, and Zürich, known locally as MüTüZü. The meeting brings together clinicians and scientists from the Southern Germany region interested in eye movements and the vestibular system, and it features an interesting mix of methods developments, scientific observations, and clinical studies.
In this year’s meeting, we described some of our lab’s efforts to develop high-performance eye tracking.
We also presented some scientific observations on very strong perceptual asymmetries that we are observing in the foveal region of visual images.
And, we also continued our investigation of the rapid, stimulus-driven ocular position drift response, which we discovered recently. We think that this phenomenon is very intriguing because it provides us with a means to understand mechanisms of sensory-motor integration in the final oculomotor control pathways of the brainstem.
Finally, the meeting provided an opportunity to make tributes to Hans Straka, a professor in München, who passed away suddenly only a few weeks before the meeting.