We have a very exciting paper just published in PLOS Biology. In it, we demonstrate a causal role for tiny microsaccadic eye movements in influencing peripheral neuronal sensitivity and behavior, thus resolving long-standing debates on the types of functional and mechanistic links that can exist between microsaccades and covert visual attention shifts. More than two[…]

This year, our colleagues at the German Primate Center organized once again the Primate Cognitive Neuroscience Summer School. This time around, Wenbin attended the school, where he also presented his work on peri-saccadic visual processing in the superior colliculus, primary visual cortex, and human perception. Ziad was also a lecturer at this summer school, describing[…]

Our lab participated in this year’s Japanese Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting. Our contribution was part of a collaboration with our previous graduate student, Chih-Yang Chen! In our previous work, we had shown with Chen that visual sensitivity in the superior colliculus (SC) is enhanced prior to microsaccades. This was related to our broader efforts linking[…]