Eye tracking is an integral part of psychophysical research in cognitive science. However, commercial eye trackers can be prohibitively expensive for many labs around the world. We developed a binocular eye tracker that performs either as well as or better than a well-known and successful commercial system, but at a small fraction of the cost.[…]
Tim Näher (ESI, Frankfurt) just created a GUI interface in Matlab for our U’n’Eye algorithm for classifying eye movements. His application can be downloaded on GitHub. Our algorithm’s details are here: Bellet, M. E.*, Bellet, J.*, Nienborg, H., Hafed, Z. M.**, & Berens, P.** (2019). Human-level saccade detection performance using deep neural networks. Journal of[…]
We have a new paper in press at the Journal of Vision. The paper is part of the Special Issue: From Peripheral to Transsaccadic and Foveal Perception. In this work, led by Matthias Baumann and co-authored by Saad Idrees and Thomas Münch, we continued exploring the robust phenomenon of perceptual saccadic suppression. Saccadic suppression refers to[…]
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Congratulations to Antimo for winning a travel award from the Vision Sciences Society (VSS)! At the 2021 meeting, which will be virtual once again this year, Antimo will present very exciting new results on early visual responses in the final motor control pathway for eye movements. He also compares the functional implications of them in[…]
Congratulations to Saad Idrees and Matthias Baumann! Their 2020 paper was just ranked among the top vision-related publications of 2020 by the European Vision Institute. The full list of winners can be found here or here. Stay tuned for more exciting follow up studies by Saad and Matthias.
We have a new review article in the Special Research Topic on Cortical-Subcortical Loops in Sensory Processing, in the journal Frontiers in Neural Circuits. The research topic is edited by Max Happel, Livia de Hoz, Anita Luthi, and Julio Hechavarria, and it covers a broad range of studies on multiple sensory modalities and multiple animal[…]
We have a new review article just published in the Journal of Neurophysiology. The article is part of a Special Call of the Society for the Neural Control of Movement (NCM). In our article, we provide an exhaustive summary of recent findings on the integration of vision and action within the foveal representation of the[…]
We have a new paper in press in the Journal of Neurophysiology, and led by Tatiana Malevich and Antimo Buonocore! The paper investigated the stimulus properties that can change how microsaccades are affected by sudden visual cue onsets. It was previously known that sudden stimulus onsets change the rate and direction of microsaccades (e.g. here). In[…]
We have a new paper now published in the Journal of Neuroscience. In this paper, co-authored by Amarender Bogadhi and Antimo Buonocore, and titled “Task-irrelevant visual forms facilitate covert and overt spatial selection”, we showed that images of coherent visual forms, such as faces or fruits, have a profound impact on target selection for eye movements,[…]