Nice writeup of my recent paper with ⁦Gongchen Yu⁩! nih.gov/news-events/ne…

Research led by NEI Intramural: Microsaccades boost or diminish the strength of brain signals underlying attention, but movements themselves are not drivers of those brain signals. Gongchen Yu @brain_alive Leor Katz Rich Krauzlis eLife - the journal: bit.ly/3NpfESo

4/5 And congrats to Gongchen Yu (Eye Movements and Visual Selection Section), who won the 10-minute talk competition. Victor Bass (Neuro-Immune Regulome Unit) was the runner up. Great work!

Took a while but it’s finally out!! See my pinned tweet for the summary. Thanks Gongchen Yu, @brain_alive and Rich Krauzlis for a fun project!

New preprint! We identified a mechanism for face processing that's centered on primate SC. It's freaky fast (faster than cortical face patches), depends on inputs from visual cortex (as opposed to retina), and explains some puzzles in the literature. #tweeprint below. 1/n

Poster day! Gongchen Yu will show how primate SC exhibits short-latency (<40ms!) face preference, and I will show what happens to that preference (and in fact, **ALL** visual activity in SC) when LGN is inactivated. Side by side, X7 & X8, today 8am-noon #SfN2023. Come say hi

For those who did not attend our session, here is the recorded video: cattendee.abstractsonline.com/meeting/10892/…

News: NIH researchers discover a new face-detecting brain circuit nih.gov/news-events/ne…

Our “face preference in SC” paper is out in Neuron! Here’s the TLDR and the #tweeprint

Excited to share my first paper from Inagaki Lab Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience! How does the “timer” in our brain control movement? We discovered specialized computational roles of the frontal cortex and striatum that implement such an action timer⏱️ biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Our preview paper just got published in Neuron, where we highlight the excellent work of John Maunsell & Supriya Ghosh on attention and Locus Coeruleus: sciencedirect.com/science/articl… With Gongchen Yu, Divya Subramanian and Rich Krauzlis

Sweet write up of our recent results— face preference in SC depends on visual cortex— by Olivia Gieger and The Transmitter. Thanks!

I just attended a great conference, but can’t help feeling disillusioned when I see certain organizing decisions, originally intended to promote diversity, going off to a strange direction. (1/7)

A few postdocs asked me to read over their job applications. Here’s a few bits of advice: 🧵 /10 1. If any advice doesn’t ring true for you, discard it (including this!) 2. People on the search committee are keen to welcome a colleague, they aren’t looking to take you down