Our 2020 study at Nature Communications is being featured today on Das Erste, Germany’s flagship TV channel. The study will be highlighted on the quiz show “Wer weiß denn sowas?” (“Who knows what?”). In our study, we discovered how the retina can already contribute to the well known phenomenon of perceptual saccadic suppression. This phenomenon[…]
Our lab participated in this year’s Computational and Systems Neuroscience (COSYNE) conference, which took place in Lisbon, Portugal. We investigated intriguing new properties of saccade-related motor bursts in the superior colliculus (SC). A popular view of these bursts is that they dictate moment-to-moment eye movement execution properties. However, our results suggest that these “movement commands”[…]
We were very happy to host the tenth CIN-NIPS Systems Neuroscience Symposium this year, which took place last week. The event was online this time due to the pandemic situation, but it represents a continuous tradition of bilateral symposia between our institute and the National Institute for Physiological Sciences in Okazaki, Japan. The symposium featured[…]
Our lab is participating in this year’s ZüMüTü meeting! Last year, the meeting was canceled because of the pandemic. This year, it was decided to hold a slightly smaller meeting online, hosted by our colleagues in Zürich. We are very happy to revive such a tradition in the local region. Our lab is presenting several[…]
We are happy to be part of the online CIVIS Tripartite Neurosciences Symposium, featuring our university, Sapienza University of Rome, and Aix-Marseille University. CIVIS is a European civic university linking 10 different university campuses, and its aim is to promote excellence in training, research, and innovation. The symposium that we are a part of is[…]
Our lab participated in this year’s NeNa 2021 Annual Conference. NeNa is a conference in Tübingen by and for junior neuroscientists. It allows all of our neuroscience graduate students to share their new results with their peers, and it also gives the students a chance to experience great keynote speeches by more experienced scientists from[…]
Our lab has participated in this year’s virtual Vision Sciences Society (VSS) annual conference. We had a total of 4 presentations as follows (click on each image to see the video of the presentation): 1) Matthias Baumann gave a talk on the visual mechanisms underlying perceptual saccadic suppression. Perceptual suppression occurs equally well,[…]
We have a new paper published at eLife, led by Antimo Buonocore, Xiaoguang Tian, and Fatemeh Khademi. In this study, we showed that at the time of triggering for a saccadic eye movement, any neural action potential in the superior colliculus (SC), regardless of what is causing this action potential, modifies the movement trajectory. Therefore,[…]
Eye tracking is an integral part of psychophysical research in cognitive science. However, commercial eye trackers can be prohibitively expensive for many labs around the world. We developed a binocular eye tracker that performs either as well as or better than a well-known and successful commercial system, but at a small fraction of the cost.[…]
Tim Näher (ESI, Frankfurt) just created a GUI interface in Matlab for our U’n’Eye algorithm for classifying eye movements. His application can be downloaded on GitHub. Our algorithm’s details are here: Bellet, M. E.*, Bellet, J.*, Nienborg, H., Hafed, Z. M.**, & Berens, P.** (2019). Human-level saccade detection performance using deep neural networks. Journal of[…]