Our lab participated in this year’s Annual Retreat of the BRAIN LOOPS Special Priority Programme (SPP) of the German Research Foundation (DFG)! This priority programme is a consortium of approximately 16 individual research projects from all over Germany, covering different aspects of cortico-subcortical interactions for adaptive sensing. The retreat took place in Potsdam, near Berlin,[…]
We have a new paper just published in iScience! In 2016, we published an Article in Current Biology describing a large and surprising asymmetry in how the primate superior colliculus (SC) represents the upper and lower retinotopic visual fields. Specifically, we discovered, back then, that SC visual responses are much stronger in the SC’s upper visual field[…]
Our lab participated in this year’s Oculomotor meeting, which took place in Zürich’s Vertigo Center. This meeting represents an annual tradition allowing the gathering of clinicians and scientists from Tübingen, Münich, and Zürich, as well as other interested individuals from neighboring communities. What joins us all is a mutual interest in matters related to the[…]
We have a new paper just published here. In it, we explored the phenomenon of premicrosaccadic visual sensitivity enhancement. This phenomenon, which we first discovered ten years ago here, is intriguing. In it, the visual sensitivity of neurons in visual-motor brain structures like the superior colliculus (SC) and frontal eye fields (FEF) is enhanced if[…]
We have a new paper just published in the Journal of Neurophysiology. In it, we explored how the perception of very brief flashes is influenced by saccadic eye movements. When we look at rapidly flickering LED lights (e.g. the brake lights of some cars), we often experience these lights conspicuously jumping around back and forth.[…]
We are extremely proud that our recent paper, Sensory Tuning in Neuronal Movement Commands, has won yet another award! This time, the paper was recognized by the ATTEMPTO Prize, which is a prize that was initiated more than 40 years ago already. This prize recognizes outstanding achievements in neuroscience research, and it is celebrated at[…]
Our lab participated in this year’s Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting, which took place in Chicago! Carlotta presented an exhaustive comparison of superior colliculus (SC) and primary visual cortex (V1) visual responses. She found that V1 neurons possess non-saturating contrast sensitivity curves, but exclusively for dark contrasts. This suggests that V1 neurons more faithfully transmit[…]
Our lab participated in this year’s annual retreat of the DFG-funded Special Priority Programme SPP 2205: Evolutionary Optimization of Neuronal Processing, which took place in Göttingen, Germany. This is the first retreat of the second funding period of the program. In both this and the previous funding period, our lab’s involvement in the SPP was[…]
Our lab participated in this year’s 4th Baltic Biophysics Conference, which took place in Kaunas, Lithuania. Our lab’s work was featured in a special session on visual neuroscience, with talks about the superior colliculus (SC) and the primary visual cortex (V1). In this session, we got a chance to document our extensive characterization of the[…]
We have a new paper just published in the Journal of Vision. The paper investigates the phenomenon of microsaccadic suppression of peripheral visual sensitivity. In this phenomenon, it is known that peripheral locations away from the line of sight experience a massive reduction in the ability to process visual stimulus onsets, especially if these onsets[…]