We have a new paper just published in iScience! In this paper, we investigated a fundamental question on why a brain structure like the superior colliculus (SC) should exhibit short-latency visual responses that are qualitatively almost identical to visual responses in the primary visual cortex (V1). It is well known that the SC receives a[…]

Our lab participated in a highly interesting workshop on Early Pattern Vision, which was part of the activities of our long-running Collaborative Research Center on Robust Vision. This workshop took place in Tübingen’s Cyber Valley, and it included researchers from Spain, Switzerland, and Germany. The ranges of expertise were broad, reflecting the multi-disciplinary nature of[…]

We have a new paper just published in the Journal of Neurophysiology! In it, we explored the phenomenon of saccadic inhibition from a multisensory perspective. Specifically, when a sudden visual stimulus appears in the environment, saccade generation rhythms are reflexively interrupted, and with a very short latency. One of our long term goals is to[…]

Our lab participated in this year’s ZüTüMü conference, which took place in Bern, Switzerland. The conference covered a wide range of topics related to perception, oculomotor control, and vestibular systems. A hallmark of the conference is that it brings together expertise from clinician scientists as well as fundamental scientists. This gives us a flavor of[…]

Our lab participated in this year’s Society for Neuroscience (SFN) annual meeting. We had three posters at this meeting. In the first, Tanya continued our investigations of the roles of different visual-motor pathways mediating reflexive, visually-guided behaviors. At this meeting, we characterized the activity of superior colliculus and inferior colliculus neurons during inactivation of the[…]

Our lab just participated in this year’s annual SPP2205 Retreat, which took place in Zeitz, Germany. The SPP2205 is a Special Priority Programme of the German Research Foundation (DFG), and it includes labs studying many different species, from insects to primates. From Tübingen, besides our lab, the labs of Jan Grewe, Jan Benda, and Aristides[…]

Our lab participated in this year’s European Conference on Visual Perception! This was the 47th meeting of this annual conference, and it took place in Mainz, Germany. We had three talks at this year’s conference. In one, Ziad gave a talk about saccadic suppression in a symposium organized by David Souto and Alexander Schütz related[…]

We are extremely proud of two PhD students from the lab, Tong Zhang and Matthias P. Baumann, who not only successfully defended their respective PhD theses during the past couple of weeks, but who also did so while each receiving the highest honors (summa cum laude)! This is a tremendous and well-deserved achievement, capping a[…]

We have a new perspective article just published in Current Opinion in Neurobiology! The article is part of the 2025 Systems Neuroscience Special Issue of the journal, covering different aspects related to statistical learning in the brain. In our article, written together with our neuroscience colleagues of the University of Tübingen (Jan Benda, Jan Grewe,[…]

Our lab just returned from participating in this year’s Gordon Research Conference on Eye Movements. The conference took place at Mount Holyoke College in New England. We had a total of five presentations at the conference, which covered a broad range of topics related to eye movements. First, Ziad gave a feature presentation about how[…]