OptoVisionLab

Optogenetics to understand how the visual brain operates

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🚀 Exciting news! A 3D-printed chinrest for eye-tracking in macaques. This non-invasive tool enhances task engagement and precision. 🌟 Science and animal welfare can go hand-in-hand! #Neuroscience #AnimalWelfare #ResearchInnovation

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Interested in joining our lab for a PhD or postdoc project to advance #optogenetics in primate visual neuroscience and towards developing a cortical #prosthesis? Please get in touch!

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Rhythmic sampling in vision: experimental paradigms and neural mechanisms https://t.co/PQmVQN4js2
Great collaboration with Ricardo Kienitz & @DugueLab

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Major step in optogenetics based visual restoration therapy for the blind. https://t.co/kx85L0vuRJ

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Brain awareness week talk on visual perception by Michael Schmid, online from Fribourg https://t.co/53VGrEadD9 #unifr

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Comprehensive view on multiple concurrent feedforward and feedback streams in a cortical hierarchy https://t.co/4J2oBqAmPT

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Important step for vision restoration: Shape perception via a high-channel-count neuroprosthesis in monkey visual cortex https://t.co/L8DpSjRWef

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Surprising finding on rhythmic brain activity from our collaboration with a primate model of cortical #blindness: Theta, but Not Gamma Oscillations in Area V4 Depend on Input from Prim... https://t.co/sBL02LgDml

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Protective cranial implant caps for macaques https://t.co/TLu7IbFBIx

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Our lab contributed to https://t.co/XyZzTPSHzT

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Protect the European Research Council (ERC) in the EU budget - Sign the Petition! https://t.co/eYyHgnN3ty via @Change

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Great time at #ESISyNC2020, a virtual conference
@ESIneuroscience on causal approaches in Neuroscience.

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Une nouvelle technique d’IRM révolutionne l’imagerie de l’œil https://t.co/zdGcTZeo0d

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Rats can be made to "want what hurts" when amygdala activation is paired with with a painful stimulus. This suggests that it might not be necessary to "like" or enjoy things that we compulsively "want".

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Visual detection is better when it follows the #reading direction from left to right. But not in #dyslexia, as new new work from Samy Rima shows: https://t.co/Qrs0zvVyAw

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German researchers promised a decade of budget increases https://t.co/4msDGqMmV6

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Fun eye tracking #palaceofscience #BrainAwarenessWeek2019 ⁦ https://t.co/94BNAFmknm

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Just ten days to the deadline to apply for one of our
five-year well-resourced transition to independence Fellowships in any
discipline. We look forward to hearing from you! https://t.co/3qslhAkAm4

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Optogenetically induced low-frequency correlations impair perception https://t.co/thSNRo1nPe