This month, the University of Helsinki held a fantastic multi-disciplinary conference on “Mind and Matter“. It included many interesting discussions on consciousness, language, perception, and even dreams! The event included psychologists, philosophers, and computational neurobiologists. Ziad Hafed participated with a keynote address describing our neurophysiological investigations on active perception. The talk was very well received,[…]
Our lab participated at this year’s annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society (VSS), which took place in St. Pete Beach, Florida. We had several exciting presentations spanning a wide range of topics, and they were all very well received by the community! Tong started it all out by giving an excellent talk at the[…]
Our entire lab was very happy to participate in this year’s Primate Neurobiology Conference, which took place at the German Primate Center in Göttingen. This was the first time that this conference happened after it was interrupted for several years by the pandemic, and we look forward to hosting next year’s version right here in[…]
We have a new review article in press about the fascinating visual functions of the primate superior colliculus (SC). The article appears in this year’s issue of Annual Review of Vision Science, and an early version of it can already be read at this link. Our review article summarizes recent observations about the visual feature[…]
On March 10 and 11, 2023, we helped our institute, the Werner Reichardt Centre for Integrative Neuroscience (CIN), organize and host the 11th CIN-NIPS-Asia Pacific Systems Neuroscience Symposium. We had an amazing lineup of speakers from the Tübingen Neuroscience Community (NeuroCampus), as well as from several Japanese and Chinese guests! The Japanese guests came from[…]
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[…]