The Active Perception Lab
@aplabur.bsky.social
Welcome to the Active Perception Lab's Bluesky account! We study visual perception, eye movements and attention at https://aplab.bcs.rochester.edu/. 👀 email: aplab@ur.rochester.edu
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
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August 21, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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
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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!
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April 10, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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...
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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August 21, 2025 at 2:03 AM
New in eNeuro By Benedetto et al! 🎉 The speed of visual discrimination is not uniform; perifoveal stimuli are processed faster than foveal ones.
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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August 21, 2025 at 1:55 AM
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...
Congratulations to Dr. Yang on your graduation, and best of luck in your academic career! 🎉The APLab will miss you!
August 21, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Congratulations to Dr. Yang on your graduation, and best of luck in your academic career! 🎉The APLab will miss you!
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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
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June 25, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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
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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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June 5, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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
Congratulations again to Yang, Intoy and Rucci for the PNAS Cozzarelli Prize!
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Why We Blink—and How It Enhances Visual Perception | Cozzarelli Prize-Winning Research
YouTube video by PNAS
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May 6, 2025 at 8:39 AM
Congratulations again to Yang, Intoy and Rucci for the PNAS Cozzarelli Prize!
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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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March 12, 2025 at 9:24 AM
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
New article out in the Journal of Vision! Explaining common misconceptions about the theory of active space-time encoding. jov.arvojournals.org/article.aspx...
The visual system does not operate like a camera | JOV | ARVO Journals
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March 6, 2025 at 9:24 AM
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 🏅🎉
February 15, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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 🏅🎉