Our lab participated in an exciting symposium at this year’s PuG 2026 conference in Heidelberg, Germany.
The symposium involved taking a motor perspective on the mechanisms of memory and attention, and it was organized by Xiongbo Wu from Munich.
In the symposium, several speakers showed how neural mechanisms that had long been viewed as exclusive mechanisms of memory and visual attention may in fact be viewed as oculomotor-related phenomena. In that sense, the cognitive processes of memory and attention are very much a function of oculomotor behavior.
Our lab’s contribution was a talk given by Ziad about the roles of foveal oculomotor state in regulating peripheral visual sensitivity.
The symposium was a great opportunity to link our neural mechanism studies in non-human primates with human cognitive processes.
