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[…]
We have a new paper now published in the Journal of Neuroscience. In it, we explored a phenomenon that we recently documented about ocular position drifts that occur during maintained gaze fixation. Ocular position drifts are generally the smallest known eye position displacements that cause retinal image shifts. These eye movements displace images on the[…]
We have a new paper just published in Scientific Reports! In this new paper, we tackled the question of whether superior colliculus (SC) neurons have an ability to detect visual objects in their very initial spiking responses to image onsets (occurring within ~50 ms from presenting a visual stimulus to the eyes). It has long[…]
Our lab members are in Washington, DC this week to present their latest work on active vision, with a focus on how the primary visual cortex (V1) relates to the midbrain superior colliculus (SC) when it comes to generating rapid saccadic eye movements. Comparison of the physiological properties of visual responses in primary visual cortex[…]
We have a new paper now published in the Journal of Neurophysiology! In it, we continued our studies of visual interruption. During natural visual behavior, we continuously generate saccadic eye movements. Whenever a visual transient occurs in the environment, the likelihood of saccade generation suddenly drops to almost zero within less than 100 ms from[…]
We have a new and exciting paper now published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences! In this paper, we tackled one of the most classic notions in systems neuroscience: that superior colliculus (SC) neurons in the midbrain issue a motor command that triggers and controls the trajectories of rapid eye movements (called[…]