Our lab has a new article published in Current Biology. Our study describes new findings about functional organization in the superior colliculus (SC), which is a brain structure that is critical for exploration of the visual world with eye and body orienting movements. We were motivated by the possibility of ecological constraints on SC function and organization.[…]
A couple of months ago, our institute started an initiative to update personnel photos, and they commissioned Akshay Markanday for this. Akshay is a PhD student at Peter Thier’s lab in our neighboring Hertie Institute, but he is also a very talented photographer. Akshay was kind enough to also take a group picture for us[…]
We participated in this year’s Vision Sciences Society annual meeting. Our lab had a poster on microsaccades as well as a talk on the superior colliculus featured in this year’s program. The microsaccade poster described new observations on phase-locking of behavioral fluctuations to the generation of microsaccades, and the talk described our new results on[…]
Our lab participated in this year’s Society for the Neural Control of Movement annual meeting in Montego Bay, Jamaica. We were part of a very interesting panel discussion on voluntary and automatic orienting reflexes, led by Jeff Schall and featuring Doug Munoz and Brian Corneil. We presented our lab’s latest results on functional specialization in[…]
Our lab has participated in this year’s Primate Neurobiology conference, which took place right here in Tuebingen. We had one oral presentation and three poster presentations in this conference, by Chen, Joachim, and Antimo. Our presentations covered behavioral and neurophysiological results on various topics like the superior colliculus, microsaccades, and visual crowding and attention.[…]
We have a new and exciting paper in press at the Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience Research Topic on Perisaccadic Vision. This is the second in a series of two papers that we have in this special issue of the journal. In these papers, we explored the experimental and theoretical implications of the existence of peri-microsaccadic[…]
We had the pleasure of hosting Jan Churan from the University of Marburg. Jan gave us an intriguing talk about exciting work that he is doing with Frank Bremmer and Markus Lappe. In this work, they have explored neural activity in area VIP around the time of saccades. The interesting twist was that they explored[…]
Ziad has just received a teaching award from the class of 2014 at the International Max Planck Graduate School of Tuebingen. The award recognizes engagement and excellence in teaching. Other awardees are included in the following link.
Antimo Buonocore has joined us from the lab of David Melcher in Trento. Antimo will collaborate with us on neurophysiological studies investigating the interface between vision and action in the oculomotor system.
Joachim is participating at this year’s NeNa 2015 conference. This conference is an annual event in Tuebingen, and it is unique in its primary focus on young neuroscience students as participants, poster presenters, and speakers. Joachim will be talking about his recent discoveries on how microsaccades influence perceptual and motor performance in humans and[…]