News



New review article published in the Journal of Vision 28/07/2021 - Our new review article titled: “The extrafoveal preview paradigm as a measure of predictive, active sampling in visual perception” is now published on the Journal of Vision. The article is Open Access and it can be downloaded here.
Saccadic inhibition mechanisms in covert orienting 04/07/2021 - Our new paper titled “Time-dependent inhibition of covert shifts of attention” has been published in Experimental Brain Research! In two experiments we show that similar inhibitory mechanisms to saccadic inhibition might operate during covert orienting altering perceptual performance in a classic cueing Posner task requiring discrimination. Interestingly, the inhibition seems to take place at a later stage of orienting, when attention is re-oriented away from the cued location. The paper is open... Read More
Revised paper on bioRxiv 27/05/2021 - We uploaded a revised version of our paper titled: “Time-dependent inhibition of covert shift of attention” on bioRxiv. You can find the paper at this link: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.07.17.207928 In the original version of the manuscript, we reported an inhibitory effect of a visual transients during a covert orienting task requiring discrimination of a tilted gabor. The inhibitory effect was taking place only at specific time intervals after cue onset, with greatest interference during... Read More

New Paper published on eLife 06/05/2021 - Our latest work on the effect of spiking activity in the superior colliculus at the time of oculomotor readout is now out on eLife. This is a very exciting work showing how every spike matters at the time of saccade generation. We report a strong linear relationship between the number of spikes detected intrasaccadically and eye movement kinematic. These modifications reflected a simultaneity of movement-related discharge at one SC site and visually-induced... Read More

Elsevier/Vision Research Virtual Travel Award 16/03/2021 - My abstract was selected for the Elsevier/Vision Research Virtual Travel Award! At V-VSS, I will present very exciting work showing visual features tuning within the brainstem. You can find more information about my poster here. Congratulations to all the other Graduate students and Postdocs that received the travel award!












Abstract accepted for Cosyne 2020 12/01/2020 - My abstract titled “Visual pattern analysis by motor neurons” has been accepted to Cosyne 2020 for a poster presentation! It is a very exciting news and I’m looking forward to share my neurophysiological results from brainstem recordings. This will be a great opportunity to exchange comments and ideas with other researchers doing neurophysiology as well as neuronal modeling.




New article in press at Nature Communication 31/07/2019 - Our article titled “Memory-guided microsaccades” has been accepted for publication in Nature Communication! This is an exciting work showing how microsaccades can be triggered at will, based on an abstract instruction and without any visual guidance. We also provide for the first time neurophysiological evidence of neurons within the Superior Colliculus that fires exclusively for memory-guided microsaccades. The article is now available at this link: https://rdcu.be/bOYfB










