We have a new and exciting paper now published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences! In this paper, we tackled one of the most classic notions in systems neuroscience: that superior colliculus (SC) neurons in the midbrain issue a motor command that triggers and controls the trajectories of rapid eye movements (called[…]

Our lab is represented at this year’s junior neuroscientists’ conference by Carlotta Trottenberg! She presents updates on our work relating visual detection of stimuli and variability in saccadic reaction times. Carlotta explored visual responses of neurons in the primary visual cortex (V1) and superior colliculus (SC), and she related how different parameters of visual responses[…]