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Our lab has a new paper published in the Journal of Neurophysiology, in which we investigated the potential mechanisms for controlling microsaccades. These tiny eye movements occur frequently during gaze fixation, and we have previously shown that the superior colliculus (SC), a brainstem oculomotor structure, is involved in their generation. In the latest experiments, we[…]

Our lab has participated in the 27th Oculomotor Meeting, which took place here in Tuebingen, and which brings together oculomotor and vestibular researchers, neurophysiologists, and clinicians to discuss contemporary topics in the field. The meeting has historically involved participants from cities like Tuebingen, Zurich, and Munich, but there are also other participants from farther places,[…]

We have a new paper just published, investigating the ability to localize visual targets when a portion of the primary visual cortex (V1) is lesioned. Patients with such lesions lose conscious perception within the affected visual field portion, but they exhibit residual performance capabilities (called “blindsight”). Our collaborators Tadashi Isa and Masatoshi Yoshida have established[…]

We have a new article in press at the Journal of Neurophysiology. In this study, we explored the phenomenon of “saccadic suppression”, in which sensitivity to visual stimuli is reduced if these stimuli are presented around the time of saccadic eye movements. This phenomenon is normally thought to help us have a stable percept of[…]

  A note written by our collaborator, Prof. Masatoshi Yoshida: http://pooneil.sakura.ne.jp/archives/permalink/001601.php  

We have a new paper in press in the international journal, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. This paper was part of a collaboration between us and Prof. Richard Krauzlis from the National Eye Institute, USA and Prof. Laurent Goffart from CNRS, France. The paper describes an interesting perspective on the neuronal control[…]

Our lab participated in this year’s Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting, which took place in San Diego, California. We presented 3 different projects from our lab, spanning behavior, neurophysiology, and computational modeling.  

Our lab presented some of our recent neurophysiological results at this year’s Fall Vision Meeting, which took place in Rochester, NY. The meeting featured a session on microsaccades, and we presented results on how visual sensitivity of superior colliculus neurons can be modulated around the time of microsaccades. Other speakers in the symposium were Martin[…]

Our lab participated in this year’s sixth CIN-NIPS symposium here in Tuebingen. This symposium was part of a collaboration between our institute and the National Institute for Physiological Sciences in Japan. Several members of our lab gave talks and posters, and the symposium provided a broad range of interesting presentations, sparking potential partnerships between our[…]