Our lab participated in this year’s departmental retreat in Obermarchtal. We presented three talks about our ongoing projects. It was a great experience to interact with other department members about our and their science. Most of us also went to Obermarchtal by bike, through the beautiful Lautertal region to the south of Tuebingen. It was[…]
We have a new paper in press at Frontiers in Neural Circuits! The paper is part of a Special Research Topic on “The Superior Colliculus/Tectum: Cell Types, Circuits, Computations, and Behaviors”. Our study complements this one and this one from our lab, and it continues our efforts to explore the visual processing properties of the primate[…]
We have a new exciting paper in press at Nature Communications. The paper continues our recent attempts at characterizing the visual functions of the primate superior colliculus (SC). Here, we characterized spatial frequency tuning characteristics of neurons in the SC. We found that, indeed, SC neurons exhibit their own preferences for individual spatial frequencies. Interestingly,[…]
We have developed a novel, state-of-the-art algorithm for detecting saccades and microsaccades in eye movement traces. The algorithm, based on deep neural networks, achieves human-level performance, and it is also able to detect post-saccadic oscillations as well as eye blinks. The algorithm outperforms existing algorithms on benchmark data sets, as well as on our in-house[…]
We spent a day bicycling in the beautiful hills around Tuebingen, and then hiking up the Rossberg peak, the highest peak in our region. It was a nice way to reminisce on our past science, and re-invigorate ourselves for future discoveries.
We participated in this year’s annual VSS meeting in Florida. We presented intriguing results exploring mechanisms of saccadic suppression. In this phenomenon, visual sensitivity to brief flashes is dramatically reduced if the flashes happen to occur in the temporal vicinity of a rapid eye movement that we make. However, rapid eye movements move images impinging[…]
We participated in this year’s annual meeting of the Neural Control of Movement Society. The meeting took place in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and it featured a variety of presentations related to motor control, including motor learning, neuromodulation, clinical case studies, brain-controlled interfaces, and non-invasive and invasive brain stimulation methodologies. The meeting was highly interdisciplinary,[…]
We participated in the retreat of our Collaborative Research Center on Robust Vision. There were many interesting talks, ranging from computer vision to vision with prosthetic implants to biological vision. The retreat was a great opportunity to strengthen our collaborations in this center, and to motivate future experiments and projects.
Our lab participated in this year’s Primate Neurobiology Meeting. This meeting took place here in Tuebingen, and it hosted around 100 primate neurobiologists, primarily from Germany. We presented 7 posters and 1 talk at this conference. Our presentations covered a variety of methods/results including behavior, neurophysiology, and computational neuroscience. We specifically had some newer explorations[…]
We have an exciting new paper in press at the Journal of Neurophysiology. The paper is part of a Special Issue on the Role of Eye Movements in Perception, Cognition, and Action. In this paper, we discovered a new phenomenon associated with microsaccades (the tiny eye movements that we have been studying in our lab[…]