We have a new paper just published here. In it, we explored the phenomenon of premicrosaccadic visual sensitivity enhancement. This phenomenon, which we first discovered ten years ago here, is intriguing. In it, the visual sensitivity of neurons in visual-motor brain structures like the superior colliculus (SC) and frontal eye fields (FEF) is enhanced if[…]
We have a new paper just published in the Journal of Neurophysiology. In it, we explored how the perception of very brief flashes is influenced by saccadic eye movements. When we look at rapidly flickering LED lights (e.g. the brake lights of some cars), we often experience these lights conspicuously jumping around back and forth.[…]
We are extremely proud that our recent paper, Sensory Tuning in Neuronal Movement Commands, has won yet another award! This time, the paper was recognized by the ATTEMPTO Prize, which is a prize that was initiated more than 40 years ago already. This prize recognizes outstanding achievements in neuroscience research, and it is celebrated at[…]
Our lab participated in this year’s Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting, which took place in Chicago! Carlotta presented an exhaustive comparison of superior colliculus (SC) and primary visual cortex (V1) visual responses. She found that V1 neurons possess non-saturating contrast sensitivity curves, but exclusively for dark contrasts. This suggests that V1 neurons more faithfully transmit[…]
Our lab participated in this year’s annual retreat of the DFG-funded Special Priority Programme SPP 2205: Evolutionary Optimization of Neuronal Processing, which took place in Göttingen, Germany. This is the first retreat of the second funding period of the program. In both this and the previous funding period, our lab’s involvement in the SPP was[…]
Our lab participated in this year’s 4th Baltic Biophysics Conference, which took place in Kaunas, Lithuania. Our lab’s work was featured in a special session on visual neuroscience, with talks about the superior colliculus (SC) and the primary visual cortex (V1). In this session, we got a chance to document our extensive characterization of the[…]
We have a new paper just published in the Journal of Vision. The paper investigates the phenomenon of microsaccadic suppression of peripheral visual sensitivity. In this phenomenon, it is known that peripheral locations away from the line of sight experience a massive reduction in the ability to process visual stimulus onsets, especially if these onsets[…]
Our lab participated in this year’s annual Systems Neuroscience Symposium of Tübingen. This is a symposium that is sponsored by our institute, the Werner Reichardt Centre for Integrative Neuroscience (CIN), and it features invited speakers from all over the world. The topics covered in this symposium are also very broad, spanning from computational neuroscience to[…]
Our lab participated in the 22nd European Conference on Eye Movements, which took place in beautiful Ireland! We had two oral presentations and one poster presentation at the conference. In one oral presentation, Tong presented very intriguing transient changes in superior colliculus (SC) neuronal activity that we observe whenever the brain transitions from gaze fixation[…]
Our lab had an extended scientific excursion in Japan this summer! We first started our journey by going to Fukuoka, in the south of Japan. We participated in the Annual Meeting of the Japanese Neuroscience Society. The meeting took place in the Fukuoka Congress Center, and it included many scientific sessions covering a broad range[…]