[CTN] CTN seminar: Mazyar Fallah (York) 3:30 Tuesday Sept 17, E5 2004.

[Bryan Tripp]

Hi everyone,

Just a reminder about the talk this afternoon at 3:30, E5 2004.

Bryan

On Tue, Sep 10, 2019 at 4:23 PM Bryan Tripp <bptripp at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> Please join us next Tuesday for the first CTN seminar of the season. The
> speaker is Mazyar Fallah; more details below. Hope to see you there!
>
> Bryan
>
> Cortical Interactions in the Oculomotor System
> M. Fallah (York University)
>
> Previous neurophysiological studies have demonstrated that saccade
> curvatures are the result of excitatory and competitive interactions
> between potential saccade goals in the intermediate layers of the superior
> colliculus (SCi) and frontal eye field (FEF), whereby the resulting saccade
> curvature is proportional to the level of unresolved activity encoding a
> competing saccade vector. This suggests that the magnitudes of saccade
> curvature vary continuously along a gradient of oculomotor excitation and
> inhibition. Given that top-down factors like task relevance are encoded by
> the visuomotor neurons of the oculomotor system (reviewed by Fecteau &
> Munoz, 2006), this predicts a functional relationship between saccade
> curvature and cortical visual processing. I will be presenting a series of
> studies that investigates the featural and temporal factors affecting
> saccadic encoding, as measured by saccade curvatures. These studies provide
> increasing evidence that visual processing can be read out of saccade
> metrics.
>
>
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