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[…]
We have a new paper in press at the Journal of Vision. The paper is part of the Special Issue: From Peripheral to Transsaccadic and Foveal Perception. In this work, led by Matthias Baumann and co-authored by Saad Idrees and Thomas Münch, we continued exploring the robust phenomenon of perceptual saccadic suppression. Saccadic suppression refers to[…]
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Congratulations to Antimo for winning a travel award from the Vision Sciences Society (VSS)! At the 2021 meeting, which will be virtual once again this year, Antimo will present very exciting new results on early visual responses in the final motor control pathway for eye movements. He also compares the functional implications of them in[…]
Congratulations to Saad Idrees and Matthias Baumann! Their 2020 paper was just ranked among the top vision-related publications of 2020 by the European Vision Institute. The full list of winners can be found here or here. Stay tuned for more exciting follow up studies by Saad and Matthias.