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 are related to how variable orienting eye movements are.
Carlotta found that SC visual responses are significantly better correlated with behavioral variability than V1 neurons. This might suggest that even though V1 neurons detect stimuli in the environment, it is only when SC neurons exhibit visual responses that individual trial variability in behavior can be detected.
