We are extremely proud of two PhD students from the lab, Tong Zhang and Matthias P. Baumann, who not only successfully defended their respective PhD theses during the past couple of weeks, but who also did so while each receiving the highest honors (summa cum laude)! This is a tremendous and well-deserved achievement, capping a[…]
We have a new perspective article just published in Current Opinion in Neurobiology! The article is part of the 2025 Systems Neuroscience Special Issue of the journal, covering different aspects related to statistical learning in the brain. In our article, written together with our neuroscience colleagues of the University of Tübingen (Jan Benda, Jan Grewe,[…]
Our lab just returned from participating in this year’s Gordon Research Conference on Eye Movements. The conference took place at Mount Holyoke College in New England. We had a total of five presentations at the conference, which covered a broad range of topics related to eye movements. First, Ziad gave a feature presentation about how[…]
The act of foveation is a fundamental cornerstone of active vision in the human visual system, because it allows processing images with very high acuity. However, foveating eye movements pose a significant challenge in their own right. Namely, because a large number of visually-sensitive brain areas are retinotopically organized, foveal neurons in such areas experience[…]
We have a new paper just published in eNeuro! In this paper, we developed a new, flexible behavioral paradigm for exploring peri-saccadic visual mislocalization in rhesus macaque monkeys. Peri-saccadic visual mislocalization refers to the phenomenon in which your percept of a stimulus flash can be strongly altered by you making a rapid eye movement. In[…]
Our lab participated in this year’s Vision Sciences Society (VSS) Annual Meeting. The meeting was special because it commemorated the 25th anniversary of the society. Our lab had three different presentations at the conference. In the first, Tanya described neuronal activity in the superior and inferior colliculi when the primary visual cortex (V1) was inactivated.[…]
Our lab participated in this year’s Neural Control of Movement Society (NCM) annual meeting, which took place in beautiful Panama City, Panama. The meeting covered different aspects of movement control, with presentations touching on cerebellar function, brain-machine interfaces, eye movements, and neurological disorders. Our lab’s contributions involved two presentations. In the first, Wenbin described surprising[…]
Our lab just participated in the 14th Primate Neurobiology Meeting, which took place in Göttingen. We had several presentations at the meeting. First off, Tanya gave a talk about visual-motor pathways mediating eye movement behaviors. She described our results on inactivating the primary visual cortex (V1) and exploring whether pathways other than the geniculostriate one[…]
Our lab participated in this year’s Annual Retreat of the BRAIN LOOPS Special Priority Programme (SPP) of the German Research Foundation (DFG)! This priority programme is a consortium of approximately 16 individual research projects from all over Germany, covering different aspects of cortico-subcortical interactions for adaptive sensing. The retreat took place in Potsdam, near Berlin,[…]
We have a new paper just published in iScience! In 2016, we published an Article in Current Biology describing a large and surprising asymmetry in how the primate superior colliculus (SC) represents the upper and lower retinotopic visual fields. Specifically, we discovered, back then, that SC visual responses are much stronger in the SC’s upper visual field[…]