Our lab was part of this year’s ninth NIPS-CIN symposium on systems neuroscience! This year’s meeting was the ninth one of its kind, demonstrating strong bilateral interactions between our institute, the Werner Reichardt Centre for Integrative Neuroscience (CIN), and the National Institute for Physiological Sciences in Okazaki, Japan (NIPS). This year, the meeting was extended[…]
“NeNa is an annual conference organised by doctoral students from the vibrant neuroscience community of Tübingen”. This year, Matthias joined the conference and gave an oral presentation on his exciting work investigating the role of visual flow in dictating the properties of perceptual saccadic suppression! He showed that reductions of visual sensitivity around the time[…]
Our lab has 6 presentations at this year’s Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience (SfN) in Chicago, IL. Our presentations cover topics related to perception, action, and neurophysiology, as part of our long term effort to better understand the physiology of active perception in the brain. 1. The influence of visual[…]
We are very happy that our latest work on memory-guided microsaccades was selected by Dr. Sachin Ranade, Senior Editor at Nature Communications, for the Editors’ Highlights section of his journal’s From Brain to Behaviour web page! The PDF of the web page is here: From Brain to Behaviour. The work that we have described in this[…]
Our lab was part of a delegation from Tuebingen University that went to Aix-Marseille University in France, to jumpstart a collaboration in the neurosciences. The collaboration is part of a larger network of European universities aiming to cement interactions (and student mobility) across the continent. We got a chance to present some of our work[…]
This summer, our lab is hosting a visiting medical student from Kyoto University, Japan. Hiroki Bando is interested in neurophysiological processes related to vision and eye movements. Our colleague, Professor Tadashi Isa, has recommended this visit, and we hope for more.
We have a new paper in press at Nature Communications. In this paper, we tackled the issue of individual microsaccade generation. Microsaccades are overwhelmingly described in the literature, as well as in the public domain, as being involuntary, reflexive, and spontaneous eye movements. However, this contradicts a lot of evidence, including our very own prior[…]
A new Dispatch about our research has been published in the journal Current Biology. The dispatch was authored by Shawn Willett at Duke University, and it was about our recent article on the foveal visual representation of the primate superior colliculus. In this work, we found much more magnified foveal visual representation in the superior[…]
Our university had a massive open house (Tübingen’s window on research) for the public, in which different labs presented their ongoing research to members of the public in an appealing and entertaining way. Our lab participated in the event by presenting an eye tracking demo, which proved highly attractive among all age groups! Some of[…]
We have a new paper in press at Current Biology. In this paper, we did extensive neurophysiological and structural investigation of the foveal visual representation of the primate superior colliculus (SC). The SC has historically been viewed, in primates, as primarily a gaze shifting structure. It was thus generally assumed that foveal visual scene analysis is the purview[…]