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[…]
Our lab is participating in this year’s virtual version of the Vision Sciences Society (VSS) conference. This meeting is special because it marks the 20th anniversary of VSS. In our first participation, we also visit an almost 20-year-old problem: that of the link between microsaccades and covert attention shifts. The video below describes Tong’s latest work[…]
We are truly humbled to have received the following email from Dr. Robert Steinman about our paper on memory-guided microsaccades, published last year in Nature Communications! Dr. Steinman’s work planted the seed for our paper almost half a century ago, and his note is a perfect reminder that science only advances on the shoulders of[…]
We have a new paper in the Journal of Neurophysiology describing a novel algorithm for detecting complex spikes of cerebellar Purkinje cells. Complex spikes are highly rare events, and they are substantially different from simple spikes that occur in the same cells at a much higher frequency (as well as in many other brain cells[…]
We have a new paper published in the Journal of Neurophysiology! The paper explores how the superior colliculus (SC) represents visual images as they are moved around on the retina by fixational microsaccades. Our previous work has shown that when stimuli suddenly appear around the time of microsaccades and saccades, then SC visual responses representing these[…]