Check out the new eLife Digest about our recent work on fixational eye position drifts: link

Our recent paper titled “Perceptual saccadic suppression starts in the retina” just received an EXCEPTIONAL rating from Faculty Opinions (formerly known as F1000Prime)! In that study, we related a highly robust perceptual phenomenon in vision to mechanisms in the retina, before any further processing takes place in the rest of the brain. These results were[…]

We recently discovered a new fixational eye movement phenomenon, which is now described in a new paper by Tatiana Malevich and Antimo Buonocore. The paper appears in the journal eLife, and it shows how tiny fixational ocular position drifts (about an order of magnitude smaller than microsaccades!) can still be highly systematically stimulus-driven. Specifically, we[…]

Our lab is participating in this year’s virtual version of the Vision Sciences Society (VSS) conference. This meeting is special because it marks the 20th anniversary of VSS. In our first participation, we also visit an almost 20-year-old problem: that of the link between microsaccades and covert attention shifts. The video below describes Tong’s latest work[…]

We are truly humbled to have received the following email from Dr. Robert Steinman about our paper on memory-guided microsaccades, published last year in Nature Communications! Dr. Steinman’s work planted the seed for our paper almost half a century ago, and his note is a perfect reminder that science only advances on the shoulders of[…]

We have a new paper in the Journal of Neurophysiology describing a novel algorithm for detecting complex spikes of cerebellar Purkinje cells. Complex spikes are highly rare events, and they are substantially different from simple spikes that occur in the same cells at a much higher frequency (as well as in many other brain cells[…]

We have a new paper published in the Journal of Neurophysiology! The paper explores how the superior colliculus (SC) represents visual images as they are moved around on the retina by fixational microsaccades. Our previous work has shown that when stimuli suddenly appear around the time of microsaccades and saccades, then SC visual responses representing these[…]

We have a new very exciting paper at Nature Communications. The paper addresses a topic that we, like many others in the field of active vision, had been interested in for a long time, and it contains many exciting and unexpected discoveries in it. Indeed, it represents a real tour-de-force by graduate students Matthias Baumann and[…]

Our 2019 article on the foveal visual representation of the primate superior colliculus was ranked as the 3rd best publication of 2019 by the European Vision Institute! The ranking can be found here or here. In this work, we found unexpectedly large foveal magnification in a phylogenetically old brain structure in the brainstem. The work represented a significant departure from[…]

Past and present lab members recently came together to celebrate the lab’s tenth anniversary! It was a chance to reminisce about some of the most memorable discoveries in those last ten years!