Ziad speaks at the NeuroBridges workshop in Gottingen, Germany.

Welcome to our new lab member and PhD student, Joachim Bellet.

Our lab has two posters at the Vision Sciences Society Annual Meeting in Florida. In the first poster, Tian describes human psychophysics related to cueing and the phenomenon of inhibition of return. In the second poster, Chen documents spatial frequency tuning characteristics of primate superior colliculus neurons.

  Our lab is participating in the university’s public open house event (Tuebinger Fenster fur Forschung – Tuebingen Window on Research). We have a booth with eye tracking demos during the day and a Science Slam presentation at the end of the event. The photo shows Chen, Alla, and Tian manning our demo booth.

We presented 3 posters at the German Primate Neurobiology meeting. The meeting was held in Tuebingen this year. Ziad described temporal and spatial response properties of superior colliculus neurons. Alla presented peri-microsaccadic neuronal modulation data. And, Tian described his modeling work on saccade timing.

  Our lab officially moves to our new home in the FIN/CIN research building. The facility is in the “Kliniken Berg” hospital complex. Our new address is Otfried-Mueller Str. 25! The picture above shows the site of our lab ten years ago – exactly where the dirt mound is!

Our lab has two presentations at the 2013 Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting in San Diego. Chen presents a talk about SC neuronal activity, and Ziad presents a poster on the use of retinal-image stabilization techniques to study important aspects of microsaccade generation.

  Our lab is participating in a joint symposium between our institute (CIN) and the National Institute for Physiological Sciences in Okazaki, Japan. Physiological, behavioral, and modeling work from our lab will be presented.

Alla presents our work on oscillatory rhythms in microsaccade generation at the Bernstein Conference for Computational Neuroscience. This work was just accepted in the Journal of Neuroscience.

New paper in press at the Journal of Neuroscience by Alla. This paper describes a theoretical framework for understanding some of the eye movement phenomena that we study in our lab.