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[…]
We participated in this year’s annual oculomotor meeting of the Zürich, Tübingen, and Münich communities. This time around, the meeting took place in Zürich. We refer to this meeting locally as the MüTüZü meeting because of the names of all three cities involved, but there were also presentations by neighboring cities like Antwerp. The meeting[…]
Our lab has participated in this year’s meeting of the British Ocular Motor Group (BOMG). The meeting took place at Cardiff University and featured a variety of topics, including studies of eye movements in children and in clinical populations. The meeting offers an interesting opportunity for UK scientists interested in eye movement research to gather[…]
We are participating in an exciting visit to our long term collaborators at the National Institute for Physiological Sciences (NIPS) in Okazaki, Japan and Kyoto University, in Kyoto, Japan. Our institute and the NIPS have been organising bilateral interactions with our Japanese colleagues for several years, and this facilitates exchange of talent and ideas between[…]