DeWeerd, P., Peralta, M. R., Desimone, R., & Ungerleider, L. G. (1999) Nature neuroscience, 2(8), 753-758. Abstract Many objects in natural visual scenes compete for attention. To identify the neural mechanisms necessary for visual attention, we made restricted lesions, affecting different quadrants of the visual field but leaving one quadrant […]
Kastner, S., De Weerd, P., Desimone, R., & Ungerleider, L. G. (1998) Science, 282(5386), 108-111. Abstract A typical scene contains many different objects, but the capacity of the visual system to process multiple stimuli at a given time is limited. Thus, attentional mechanisms are required to select relevant objects from among […]
Weerd, P. D., Gattass, R., Desimone, R., & Ungerleider, L. G. Nature. 1995 Oct 26;377(6551):731-4. Abstract When we view a scene through one eye, we typically do not see the scotomas created by the optic disc and the blood vessels overlying the retinal surface. Similarly, when a texture field containing […]
Lowet E, Roberts MJ, Peter A, Gips B, De Weerd P. Elife. 2017 Aug 31;6. pii: e26642. doi: 10.7554/eLife.26642. This paper proposes a new theoretical framework based on the mathematics of weakly coupled oscillators to understand neural communication. Using pairs of depth probe recordings in primary visual cortex, the investigators show that […]
Some highlights at the Society for Neuroscience Conference 2017 in Washington DC: Vincent van de Ven and Rosanne Rademaker chaired a session! Peter De Weerd guarded the Capitol and saw some of his favorite paintings at the National Gallery of Art.
On June 19th, we had a PALM symposium, where 8 of our group members presented progress in their projects. It was great to share the discoveries of this year with each other! The titles of the talks can be seen below. PALM symposium Olaf: Attentional modulation through saccades in perceptual […]
On July 1st 2017 we celebrated the end of a nice and productive academic year 2016-2017. It was a nice day with lots of good food and drinks, and good company. As happens at the end of the year, some of us left for greener pastures. Bert Jans decided to […]
In September 2016, Astrid Valles and Eric Lowet have left us after many years of great collaboration and good times. Astrid Valles is now working at Uniqure, a company that aims to develop gene therapy for various human diseases. Eric Lowet left to start a postdoc at MIT with Robert […]
