Our entire lab was very happy to participate in this year’s Primate Neurobiology Conference, which took place at the German Primate Center in Göttingen. This was the first time that this conference happened after it was interrupted for several years by the pandemic, and we look forward to hosting next year’s version right here in[…]
We have a new review article in press about the fascinating visual functions of the primate superior colliculus (SC). The article appears in this year’s issue of Annual Review of Vision Science, and an early version of it can already be read at this link. Our review article summarizes recent observations about the visual feature[…]
On March 10 and 11, 2023, we helped our institute, the Werner Reichardt Centre for Integrative Neuroscience (CIN), organize and host the 11th CIN-NIPS-Asia Pacific Systems Neuroscience Symposium. We had an amazing lineup of speakers from the Tübingen Neuroscience Community (NeuroCampus), as well as from several Japanese and Chinese guests! The Japanese guests came from[…]
Our lab participated in the March 2023 retreat of the DFG-funded Special Priority Programme (SPP) on Evolutionary Optimization of Neuronal Processing. The program of the retreat was very rich and diverse, covering a wide range of species, from crustaceans to insects, and from fish to rodents and primates. This was a very enriching experience for[…]
The Werner Reichardt Centre for Integrative Neuroscience (CIN) is pleased to announce the 11th CIN-NIPS-Asia Pacific symposium which will be held both on-site (lecture hall of the HNO-Klinik: Elfriede-Aulhorn-Straße 5, 72076 Tübingen) and online on March 10 and 11, 2023. The symposium originates from a yearly bilateral tradition of strong joint interactions with the National Institute[…]
Our lab participated in this year’s annual oculomotor meeting of München, Tübingen, and Zürich, known locally as MüTüZü. The meeting brings together clinicians and scientists from the Southern Germany region interested in eye movements and the vestibular system, and it features an interesting mix of methods developments, scientific observations, and clinical studies. In this year’s[…]
Our lab was recently present in sunny San Diego for the 2022 Society for Neuroscience Annual Conference. Besides participating in the Advances in Motor Control Satellite Conference, we also had two other presentations in the main conference. In the first, Matthias Baumann continued to present interesting results on the sensory tuning of superior colliculus motor[…]
Our lab presented a platform presentation at this year’s fantastic Advances in Motor Learning and Motor Control Conference, a satellite event of the Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting. In our contribution, Matthias Baumann gave a great talk on the topic of sensory tuning in neuronal movement commands. He described a very intriguing new discovery that[…]
We have a new paper now published at Communications Biology. It can be read here. In this paper, we investigated the question of whether the number of action potentials emitted by a superior colliculus (SC) neuron at the time of saccadic eye movement triggering is related to the eyeball rotation speed of the generated saccade.[…]
We have a new paper just published in the Journal of Neuroscience. In it, we observed that superior colliculus (SC) visual responses occur faster for stimuli that are darker, rather than brighter, than the background. Interestingly, this faster detection of dark stimuli occurs even if a neuron is more sensitive to bright stimuli. That is,[…]