We have a new paper just published in the Journal of Neuroscience. In it, we observed that superior colliculus (SC) visual responses occur faster for stimuli that are darker, rather than brighter, than the background. Interestingly, this faster detection of dark stimuli occurs even if a neuron is more sensitive to bright stimuli. That is,[…]
Our lab participated in an exciting workshop titled “Structured Representations for Efficient and Lifelong Learning in Brains and Machines”. The workshop, which took place on the island of Crete in the Mediterranean Sea, brought together a diverse set of speakers and students from different fields at the interface of AI, neuroscience, computer vision, and robotics.[…]
Our lab participated in this year’s Bernstein Conference in Berlin, Germany. The conference is organized annually by the Bernstein Network for Computational Neuroscience, which we are a part of. In this year’s conference, Matthias presented our observations on sensory tuning in superior colliculus neuronal movement commands. This is a highly intriguing discovery: We specifically studied[…]
Our very own Tatiana Malevich gave an exciting talk at a symposium in this year’s European Conference on Visual Perception. The conference took place in Nijmegen (the Netherlands), and the symposium was on the phenomenon of inhibition of return, in which reaction times in attentional cueing tasks can be elevated at previously cued locations. Tatiana’s[…]
Our lab participated in this year’s European Conference on Eye Movements (ECEM), which took place in Leicester, UK. This was the first in-presence ECEM since the beginning of the pandemic, so it felt particularly special. It was very nice to experience this conference again in real life. The conference is unique in that it brings[…]
We have a new GUI tool for our 2020 algorithm to detect cerebellar complex spikes! The GUI tool is called EPICS, for Easy Platform for Identification of Complex Spikes, and it is described in detail at GitHub. We also have a detailed video tutorial for it on YouTube. The paper describing this new GUI tool[…]
Our lab participated in this year’s Neural Control of Movement Society Annual Meeting, which took place in Dublin, Ireland. We gave two presentations on sensory responses in the oculomotor system. In the first presentation, Antimo described intriguing visual pattern analysis abilities in brainstem omnipause neurons, the very final gate in controlling saccades. It turns out[…]
We have a new paper now out in Communications Biology! This is a massive study combining electrophysiological recordings in mouse, pig, and macaque monkey retinas with 2-photon calcium imaging, computational modeling, and human psychophysics. The aim? To understand the retinal mechanisms underlying the well-known phenomenon of perceptual saccadic suppression. In previous studies, like this one[…]
Our lab just participated in the fantastic Berlin conference on “Subcortico-cortical loops in sensory processing and perception” last week, which took place in the Charité Berlin University Hospital campus. The conference was organized by Livia de Hoz and Julio Hechavarria as part of the newly established Special Priority Programme (SPP) 2411 on “Sensing LOOPS: cortico-subcortical[…]
We have a new paper that was just published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). The foveal visual image region is a tiny part of our visual field in which we have very high visual acuity. This is why we typically direct our gaze such that our foveal visual image region[…]