We have a new paper in press at Nature Communications. In this paper, we tackled the issue of individual microsaccade generation. Microsaccades are overwhelmingly described in the literature, as well as in the public domain, as being involuntary, reflexive, and spontaneous eye movements. However, this contradicts a lot of evidence, including our very own prior[…]
A new Dispatch about our research has been published in the journal Current Biology. The dispatch was authored by Shawn Willett at Duke University, and it was about our recent article on the foveal visual representation of the primate superior colliculus. In this work, we found much more magnified foveal visual representation in the superior[…]
Our university had a massive open house (Tübingen’s window on research) for the public, in which different labs presented their ongoing research to members of the public in an appealing and entertaining way. Our lab participated in the event by presenting an eye tracking demo, which proved highly attractive among all age groups! Some of[…]
We have a new paper in press at Current Biology. In this paper, we did extensive neurophysiological and structural investigation of the foveal visual representation of the primate superior colliculus (SC). The SC has historically been viewed, in primates, as primarily a gaze shifting structure. It was thus generally assumed that foveal visual scene analysis is the purview[…]
Our lab is participating in this year’s annual Vision Sciences Society (VSS) conference in VSS. Matthias is giving a talk on his intriguing results on saccadic suppression. Some of these results could be read here.
Our lab participated in this year’s annual meeting of the Neural Control of Movement Society (NCM). The meeting took place in Toyama, Japan. Our lab was part of a panel session on new perspectives of research on the role of the superior colliculus in gaze control. Other speakers were Mayu Takahashi, Neeraj Gandhi, and[…]
We have recently performed extensive physiological studies of the foveal visual representation of the rhesus macaque superior colliculus (SC). As part of these studies, we have performed dense mappings of the retinotopic topography that is known to exist in this structure. Unlike in classic work, in which the mapping data were very sparse, we fully[…]
Our lab participated in a highly interesting focused symposium on eye and head movement control systems, which took place in Kyoto, Japan. The symposium was a pre-meeting to this year’s annual Neural Control of Movement Society conference, taking place in Toyama, Japan. The symposium featured varied topics from saccade control, to visual consequences of eye[…]
Our lab participated in a symposium on Active Vision organized by Marburg University. The symposium was made in honor of Klaus-Peter Hoffmann’s 75th birthday. All speakers had an excellent chance to celebrate the highly illustrious career and contributions of Klaus-Peter, and it was an honor and privilege to participate. The symposium was superbly organized by[…]
Our lab participated in this year’s German Neuroscience Conference taking place in Gottingen. We were part of a symposium on early visual selection, highlighting new results out of the Robust Vision Collaborative Research Centre that we are a member of. Ziad described our results on “a vision for orienting in the primate superior colliculus”!