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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.  

We have a new review article in the Special Research Topic on Cortical-Subcortical Loops in Sensory Processing, in the journal Frontiers in Neural Circuits. The research topic is edited by Max Happel, Livia de Hoz, Anita Luthi, and Julio Hechavarria, and it covers a broad range of studies on multiple sensory modalities and multiple animal[…]

We have a new review article just published in the Journal of Neurophysiology. The article is part of a Special Call of the Society for the Neural Control of Movement (NCM). In our article, we provide an exhaustive summary of recent findings on the integration of vision and action within the foveal representation of the[…]

We have a new paper in press in the Journal of Neurophysiology, and led by Tatiana Malevich and Antimo Buonocore! The paper investigated the stimulus properties that can change how microsaccades are affected by sudden visual cue onsets. It was previously known that sudden stimulus onsets change the rate and direction of microsaccades (e.g. here). In[…]

We have a new paper now published in the Journal of Neuroscience. In this paper, co-authored by Amarender Bogadhi and Antimo Buonocore, and titled “Task-irrelevant visual forms facilitate covert and overt spatial selection”, we showed that images of coherent visual forms, such as faces or fruits, have a profound impact on target selection for eye movements,[…]

Check out the new eLife Digest about our recent work on fixational eye position drifts: link

Our recent paper titled “Perceptual saccadic suppression starts in the retina” just received an EXCEPTIONAL rating from Faculty Opinions (formerly known as F1000Prime)! In that study, we related a highly robust perceptual phenomenon in vision to mechanisms in the retina, before any further processing takes place in the rest of the brain. These results were[…]

We recently discovered a new fixational eye movement phenomenon, which is now described in a new paper by Tatiana Malevich and Antimo Buonocore. The paper appears in the journal eLife, and it shows how tiny fixational ocular position drifts (about an order of magnitude smaller than microsaccades!) can still be highly systematically stimulus-driven. Specifically, we[…]