We have a very exciting paper just published in PLOS Biology. In it, we demonstrate a causal role for tiny microsaccadic eye movements in influencing peripheral neuronal sensitivity and behavior, thus resolving long-standing debates on the types of functional and mechanistic links that can exist between microsaccades and covert visual attention shifts. More than two[…]
This year, our colleagues at the German Primate Center organized once again the Primate Cognitive Neuroscience Summer School. This time around, Wenbin attended the school, where he also presented his work on peri-saccadic visual processing in the superior colliculus, primary visual cortex, and human perception. Ziad was also a lecturer at this summer school, describing[…]
Our lab participated in this year’s Japanese Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting. Our contribution was part of a collaboration with our previous graduate student, Chih-Yang Chen! In our previous work, we had shown with Chen that visual sensitivity in the superior colliculus (SC) is enhanced prior to microsaccades. This was related to our broader efforts linking[…]
Our congratulations go to Matthias Baumann, who is currently the latest PhD graduate of the lab! He was just awarded the 2026 Doctoral Prize by the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences at our university. The prize was presented to Matthias at the university’s latest graduation ceremony this summer. Matthias had submitted an outstanding PhD[…]
Our lab has a new paper published in the Journal of Neurophysiology! The superior colliculus (SC) of human and non-human primates receives a large part of its visual inputs via direct anatomical projections originating in the primary visual cortex (V1). Consistent with this, the visual responses of non-human primate SC neurons have long been known[…]
Our lab participated in an exciting symposium at this year’s PuG 2026 conference in Heidelberg, Germany. The symposium involved taking a motor perspective on the mechanisms of memory and attention, and it was organized by Xiongbo Wu from Munich. In the symposium, several speakers showed how neural mechanisms that had long been viewed as exclusive[…]
Our lab organized and participated in this year’s 15th Annual Primate Neurobiology Conference. This conference represents a joint collaboration between Tübingen and our colleagues at the German Primate Center in Göttingen. Traditionally, the conference took place in Göttingen for one year and Tübingen for the next. However, this pattern was severely disrupted during the coronavirus[…]
After the pre-NCM meeting in Sendai, we moved on to Kobe! We attended the 2026 Annual Meeting of the Neural Control of Movement Society. The meeting was great, and it featured many different topics related to motor control. Some presentations included motor control in the clinics and in medical applications. Others included birdsong and prostheses.[…]
Our lab participated in an outstanding eye movement symposium in Sendai, Japan. The symposium was an ancillary event of the main Neural Control of Movement Society Annual Conference, which took place in Kobe, Japan the following week. The Sendai symposium was a meeting of the “who’s who” of oculomotor science, and it included an intense[…]
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[…]