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[…]
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[…]