Delighted to see our latest test of Active Space-Time Visual Encoding published! Saccades do more than select where we look: their amplitude also helps determine what information we extract from a scene, as predicted by the transients they generate.

A tiny loss of central vision is enough to reorganize where we look—at the scale of just a few arcminutes 👁️ Our new Current Biology Correspondence, led by Ben Moon, reveals remarkably fine-scale visuomotor plasticity in response to a simulated subfoveal scotoma. authors.elsevier.com/a/1ndEe3QW8S...

Congratulations to Dr. Guzhang🎓, another APLab graduate 👏 ready to go on with a postdoc at Boston University! Thanks for all these years of dedication and hard work in the lab!!

Our review with Alessandro Benedetto (UniFI) on the speed of visual processing across the visual field is out in Current Opinion in Neurobiology! Spoiler: visual processing is slower in the fovea 👀 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

We are on a roll! Here is another freshly baked Ph.D. made in the APLab! Congratulations Dr. Stearns!🥳

The ApLab is hiring postdocs and graduate students! Interested? email: martina_poletti@urmc.rochester.edu aplab.bcs.rochester.edu/open_positio... #Postdoc #PhDJobs #VisionScience #Neuroscience #EyeTracking #AcademicJobs

🎊 Congrats to this year's recipients of ARVO/VSS travel grants: Derek Power, Aldo Tecse, Sabina Poudel, Hector Baez, & Krish Prahalad. Each recipient was awarded $1000 each, supported by the @flaumeye.bsky.social & CVS. www.cvs.rochester.edu/about/news.h...

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CVS announces recipients of ARVO/VSS travel grants

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New eLife @elife.bsky.social reviewed preprint from our lab by Y. Guzhang in collaboration with F. Jaeger! We show that exogenous attention can be fine-tuned within the foveola, selectively enhancing contrast sensitivity in a spatial-frequency-dependent manner. elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...

New paper from our lab in iScience @cp-iscience.bsky.social by Clark and Prahalad! We show that visual crowding follows distinct dynamics in foveal and extrafoveal vision and that the magnitude of crowding changes with eccentricity even near the center of gaze. www.cell.com/iscience/ful...

Distinct eccentricity-driven dynamics in foveal and extrafoveal visual crowding

Ophthalmology; Neuroscience

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Another freshly minted Ph.D. from APLab! Huge congratulations, Dr. Jenks! 🎓

Congratulations to the UNIFI (University of Florence) team (Alessandro Benedetto, Roberto Arrighi and colleagues), and a big thank-you to Ruei Wu for setting up a dDPI eyetracker and gaze-contingent display setup in their lab! 🙌

And here we go again! Another APlab graduate, congratulations Dr. Kapisthalam!!🥳 It was great to see so many people cheering for you!

Huge congratulations, Dr. Li! We’re grateful for everything you brought to the lab and excited to see what you do next. Wishing you all the best! 🎉

Congratulations to Krish Prahalad and the rest of the team for our first AOSLO psychophysics paper on foveal crowding, now out in Current Biology! 🎉 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @currentbiology.bsky.social #NIH funded research

Non-uniform signal pooling across the foveola

Object recognition is impacted by visual crowding. This phenomenon, attributed to cortical pooling, is generally studied in the periphery. Crowding me…

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The APLab (aplab.bcs.rochester.edu/index.html) is hiring graduate students! We are looking for talented students with a strong interest in vision science, a background in related areas, and experience with data analysis and computer programming. To apply send us your CV!

New in the Journal of Neuroscience by Wang et al. When we fixate on one spot, the eyes are far from idle. Here we show that this task depends on two coordinated processes: generating precise microsaccades when needed and suppressing or delaying those that are not. bit.ly/4fTssiQ

Congrats to Riesa Cassano & Rithwik Cherian, recipients of this year’s Open Scholarship Awards, & Sanjana Kapisthalam, recipient of the Edward Peck Curtis Award for excellence in teaching! opensci.lib.rochester.edu/open-scholar...

New in eNeuro By Benedetto et al! 🎉 The speed of visual discrimination is not uniform; perifoveal stimuli are processed faster than foveal ones.

The Speed of Visual Discrimination Differs between Foveola and Perifovea: A Combined EEG and Behavioral Investigation

Despite the vivid experience of homogeneous vision, our visual system is inherently endowed with highly inhomogeneous structures. Although the temporal characteristics of visual responses vary with ec...

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Excited to share our latest study “Asymmetries in foveal vision” by Jenks, Carrasco and Poletti. Using high-resolution eye tracking, we show that perceptual asymmetries exist even within the foveola, and they differ from the well-known extrafoveal asymmetries. doi.org/10.1523/JNEU...

Asymmetries in foveal vision

Visual perception is characterized by known asymmetries in the visual field; human’s visual sensitivity is higher along the horizontal than the vertical meridian, and along the lower than the upper ve...

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Congratulations to Dr. Yang on your graduation, and best of luck in your academic career! 🎉The APLab will miss you!

Yue Guzhang is a fourth-year student in the @uor-braincogsci.bsky.social at the @urochester.bsky.social in the @aplabur.bsky.social studying how attention and fixational eye movements influence our ability to see fine details in the fovea #URochesterResearch Read More ➡️ bit.ly/3GcWIaO

New paper on microsaccades, motor planning, and covert attention out in Scientific Reports (www.nature.com/articles/s41...), by Brandolani et al in collaboration with the University of Bologna @unibo.bsky.social! @erc.europa.eu @urochester.bsky.social

Distinct modulation of microsaccades in motor planning and covert attention - Scientific Reports

Scientific Reports - Distinct modulation of microsaccades in motor planning and covert attention

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Congratulations again to Yang, Intoy and Rucci for the PNAS Cozzarelli Prize! www.youtube.com/watch?v=svue...

Why We Blink—and How It Enhances Visual Perception | Cozzarelli Prize-Winning Research

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Many congratulations to Bin Yang and Michele Rucci who won the PNAS Cozzarelli prize (www.nasonline.org/news/2024-co...) for their paper on "Eye blinks as a visual processing stage" (www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....)! 🎉👏 @uor-braincogsci.bsky.social @cvsuor.bsky.social @urochester.bsky.social

PNAS Announces Six 2024 Cozzarelli Prize Recipients - NAS

WASHINGTON, DC – The Editorial Board of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) has selected six papers published by PNAS in 2024 to receive the Cozzarelli Prize, an award that reco...

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New article out in the Journal of Vision! Explaining common misconceptions about the theory of active space-time encoding. jov.arvojournals.org/article.aspx...

Congratulations to Sanjana Kapisthalam (Aplab grad student) for receiving the University of Rochester 2025 Edward Peck Curtis Award for Excellence in Teaching by a Graduate Student!! Well deserved! @urochester.bsky.social @uor-braincogsci.bsky.social 🏅🎉