Albert Cardona"Direction and orientation preferences in mouse superior colliculus and its retinal inputs exhibit a topography of cardinal biases atop locally mixed tuning", He et al. 2025 (Sylvia Schröder's lab @sylvia_schroeder
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.21.695778v2
PLOS Biology#Visual #salience generation involves center-surround dynamics, but what performs these computations? This study shows that the #SuperiorColliculus encodes center-surround dynamics under isolated conditions, and provides insights into the circuit implementation
@PLOSBiology plos.io/4n7RpsA
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Why don't #saccades disrupt our continuous #visual experience? This study shows that neurons of the #SuperiorColliculus are sensitive to the pre-movement peripheral appearance of the eye movement targets, potentially explaining the experienced perceptual stability @PLOSBiology plos.io/44cxQIe
Matt WillemsenA Tiny, Pea-Sized Thing in Your Brain May Be Much More Important Than We Thought
https://www.sciencealert.com/a-tiny-pea-sized-thing-in-your-brain-may-be-much-more-important-than-we-thought #anatomy #psychology #brain #vision #superiorcolliculus #optogenetics #object #background
https://www.sciencealert.com/a-tiny-pea-sized-thing-in-your-brain-may-be-much-more-important-than-we-thought #anatomy #psychology #brain #vision #superiorcolliculus #optogenetics #object #background
"Functional cell types in the mouse superior colliculus", Li & Meister 2023 at #eLife @eLife
"we recorded from mouse superficial SC neurons under a battery of visual stimuli including those used for classification of RGCs [retinal ganglion cells]. An unsupervised clustering algorithm identified 24 functional types based on their visual responses."
"Compared to the retina, the visual representation in the SC has lower dimensionality, consistent with a sifting process along the visual pathway."
