In it’s latest issue, the journal Nature has published several interesting features on academic excellence in Germany. Ziad was among the interviewees in this article.

We are participating in this year’s European Conference on Eye Movements, which is taking place in Wuppertal, Germany. Antimo is presenting new results on smooth pursuit eye movements, and how they may be affected by visual transients. In his experiments, Antimo is finding that smooth pursuit initiation is affected in a transient inhibitory manner if[…]

We have a new exciting article in press at the Journal of Neurophysiology. In this article, we discovered an intriguing property related to microsaccades, the tiny eye movements that take place during gaze fixation. We found that after microsaccades are generated by the oculomotor system, behavioral visual performance (e.g. stimulus detection efficiency) does not return[…]

We participated in our departmental summer retreat in the town of Obermarchtal. The retreat featured a series of interesting talks and animated discussions on a variety of diverse topics related to neuroscience.   Antimo and Konstantin from our lab gave presentations on their studies on microsaccades, saccades, and smooth pursuit eye movements.

Our lab has participated in this year’s annual VSS meeting in St. Pete Beach, Florida. We had a range of presentations covering neurophysiology, behavior, and modeling. Chen has presented his studies on the foveal visual representation of the primate superior colliculus, and Antimo described our thoughts on microsaccade control by brainstem nuclei. Konstantin also showed[…]

Our lab has participated in this year’s Primate Neurobiology Meeting at the German Primate Centre in Gottingen. The meeting featured highly interesting keynote lectures by Pieter Roelfsema, Eberhard Fetz, and Mark Buckley. More information can be found here. Our lab presented 3 posters, and Antimo Buonocore also gave a talk about his work on models[…]

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Our lab has a new paper published in the Journal of Neurophysiology, in which we investigated the potential mechanisms for controlling microsaccades. These tiny eye movements occur frequently during gaze fixation, and we have previously shown that the superior colliculus (SC), a brainstem oculomotor structure, is involved in their generation. In the latest experiments, we[…]

Our lab has participated in the 27th Oculomotor Meeting, which took place here in Tuebingen, and which brings together oculomotor and vestibular researchers, neurophysiologists, and clinicians to discuss contemporary topics in the field. The meeting has historically involved participants from cities like Tuebingen, Zurich, and Munich, but there are also other participants from farther places,[…]

We have a new paper just published, investigating the ability to localize visual targets when a portion of the primary visual cortex (V1) is lesioned. Patients with such lesions lose conscious perception within the affected visual field portion, but they exhibit residual performance capabilities (called “blindsight”). Our collaborators Tadashi Isa and Masatoshi Yoshida have established[…]