We have a new paper that was just published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). The foveal visual image region is a tiny part of our visual field in which we have very high visual acuity. This is why we typically direct our gaze such that our foveal visual image region[…]
Our presentations from the “real” VSS in May were also made available online in the Virtual VSS sessions last week. The videos of these presentations are available below. In the first two videos, Matthias and Anna describe our intriguing discovery of sensory tuning in the superior colliculus motor commands, and the potential perceptual consequences of[…]
Our lab participated in the first in-person VSS conference since the start of the pandemic. It felt nice to visit the conference site once again, and to see so many familiar and new members of the Vision Sciences Society all join together to present and discuss science. From our lab, Matthias and Ziad presented two[…]
Our lab participated in the first Thematic Workshop of the In2Primates International Training Network (ITN). The workshop took place in Rome, and was hosted by Sapienza University Rome, one of the participant institutions of the ITN. In2Primates is a European wide network focusing on primate neurobiology, and spanning several institutes from France, Germany, Greece, Italy,[…]
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[…]