We have a new paper just published in the Journal of Vision. The paper investigates the phenomenon of microsaccadic suppression of peripheral visual sensitivity. In this phenomenon, it is known that peripheral locations away from the line of sight experience a massive reduction in the ability to process visual stimulus onsets, especially if these onsets[…]
Our lab participated in this year’s annual Systems Neuroscience Symposium of Tübingen. This is a symposium that is sponsored by our institute, the Werner Reichardt Centre for Integrative Neuroscience (CIN), and it features invited speakers from all over the world. The topics covered in this symposium are also very broad, spanning from computational neuroscience to[…]
Our lab participated in the 22nd European Conference on Eye Movements, which took place in beautiful Ireland! We had two oral presentations and one poster presentation at the conference. In one oral presentation, Tong presented very intriguing transient changes in superior colliculus (SC) neuronal activity that we observe whenever the brain transitions from gaze fixation[…]
Our lab had an extended scientific excursion in Japan this summer! We first started our journey by going to Fukuoka, in the south of Japan. We participated in the Annual Meeting of the Japanese Neuroscience Society. The meeting took place in the Fukuoka Congress Center, and it included many scientific sessions covering a broad range[…]
We are very proud of Matthias Baumann and his co-authors! Their 2023 paper, titled “Sensory tuning in neuronal movement commands“, has just won the 2023 Hertie Institute for Clinical Brain Research Paper of the Year Award! The award was presented at the annual Tübingen NeuroCampus summer fest. Stay tuned for more exciting work by Matthias[…]
We have a new Editorial Focus at the Journal of Neurophysiology, describing our take on a recent paper by Zhang, Valsecchi, Gegenfurtner, and Chen on saccadic suppression. In their paper, the authors looked at the phenomenon of reduced visual sensitivity around the time of saccadic eye movements. They found that this suppression of visual sensitivity[…]
Our lab participated in this year’s Vision Sciences Society Annual Conference, which took place in St. Pete Beach, Florida. We had three presentations at this year’s meeting. In her talk, Tanya presented more results on our intriguing observations that sound activates a dormant visual-motor pathway bypassing the primary visual cortex. This is a very interesting[…]
Our lab participated in this year’s Annual Meeting of the Neural Control of Movement (NCM) Society, which took place in Dubrovnik, Croatia. The NCM meeting covers all aspects of movement control, including eye movement control, which we love to look at very deeply. Our lab had two important presentations about our work at the meeting.[…]
Our lab participated in the first annual retreat of the Sensing LOOPS (SPP 2411). Sensing LOOPS is a Priority Programme of the German Research Foundation, and our lab has a funded project in this program. At the retreat, Tong and Tanya presented their work. Tong gave a great talk on signaling of prediction error by[…]
We hosted this year’s annual Oculomotor and Vestibular System Meeting. This is a meeting that originated by neurologists and scientists in the Münich, Zürich, and Tübingen regions who were interested in the oculomotor and vestibular systems. The meeting rotates between these three locations annually, and it was our turn to host it this year. The[…]