Our lab participated in this year’s annual Society for Neuroscience conference, which took place in San Diego, California.
We had four different presentations on a variety of topics, including vision around the time of saccades, visual working memory, blindsight, and fine control of saccadic eye movements.
The conference was a perfect chance to catch-up on the latest science from all over the world, and also to broaden our knowledge by attending the many presidential lectures covering different aspects of neuroscience, including dialogues between neuroscience and society.
For our field in particular, the highlight of the meeting was a one-day symposium that took place one day before the main conference. This symposium was focused on vision and action in the brain, and it was organized by the NIH to honor the many contributions of Dr. Lance Optican to active vision and saccade control. The symposium featured amazing presentations on basic science as well as neurological conditions, and covering the very wide span of Optican’s interests: from the ocular eye plant all the way to understanding visual object recognition by IT cortex.
