Our lab participated in the March 2023 retreat of the DFG-funded Special Priority Programme (SPP) on Evolutionary Optimization of Neuronal Processing. The program of the retreat was very rich and diverse, covering a wide range of species, from crustaceans to insects, and from fish to rodents and primates. This was a very enriching experience for[…]
The Werner Reichardt Centre for Integrative Neuroscience (CIN) is pleased to announce the 11th CIN-NIPS-Asia Pacific symposium which will be held both on-site (lecture hall of the HNO-Klinik: Elfriede-Aulhorn-Straße 5, 72076 Tübingen) and online on March 10 and 11, 2023. The symposium originates from a yearly bilateral tradition of strong joint interactions with the National Institute[…]
Our lab participated in this year’s annual oculomotor meeting of München, Tübingen, and Zürich, known locally as MüTüZü. The meeting brings together clinicians and scientists from the Southern Germany region interested in eye movements and the vestibular system, and it features an interesting mix of methods developments, scientific observations, and clinical studies. In this year’s[…]
Our lab was recently present in sunny San Diego for the 2022 Society for Neuroscience Annual Conference. Besides participating in the Advances in Motor Control Satellite Conference, we also had two other presentations in the main conference. In the first, Matthias Baumann continued to present interesting results on the sensory tuning of superior colliculus motor[…]
Our lab presented a platform presentation at this year’s fantastic Advances in Motor Learning and Motor Control Conference, a satellite event of the Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting. In our contribution, Matthias Baumann gave a great talk on the topic of sensory tuning in neuronal movement commands. He described a very intriguing new discovery that[…]
We have a new paper now published at Communications Biology. It can be read here. In this paper, we investigated the question of whether the number of action potentials emitted by a superior colliculus (SC) neuron at the time of saccadic eye movement triggering is related to the eyeball rotation speed of the generated saccade.[…]
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[…]