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!
Our lab is participating with two presentations at this year’s COSYNE 2020 meeting, taking place in Denver, CO. The meeting focuses on computational and systems neuroscience, and it addresses a multi-disciplinary audience interested in both experimental work as well as theoretical and computational approaches. In our first presentation, Antimo Buonocore and Matthias Baumann describe some[…]
The 30th annual oculomotor meeting of Southern Germany (known locally as MüTüZü) takes place this Friday. The program can be found here. This year, we feature an interesting philosophical perspective on dizziness by our colleague from Philosophy, Dr. Hong Yu Wong. We also feature a mix of research ranging from basic animal neuroscience experiments to[…]
Our lab celebrates its 10th anniversary this month! On this occasion, we looked back at 10 of the most significant papers that we wrote, and how they may pave the way for our future research directions in the lab. 1. Where it all started; the microsaccade as a “genuine” motor act: Hafed, 2011 We study[…]
Our recent research published in Current Biology earlier this year just received a second EXCEPTIONAL recommendation on F1000Prime, this time by Sabine Kastner and Kacie Dougherty! More details about the work itself, its impacts, as well as the recommendations that it already received so far by several scientists can be found here. The current recommendation itself can[…]
We have a new paper in press at the Journal of Neurophysiology! In this study, in collaboration with a colleague at Aix-Marseille University and CNRS (Laurent Goffart), we investigated in great detail the latencies of small saccadic eye movements. Even in a simple reflexive paradigm, saccade reaction times are much longer than the fastest possible[…]