Using a detection task with stimuli right at threshold, whole cell recordings in NHP primary visual cortex, and choice probabilities, we demonstrate how internal fluctuations related to anticipation of a stimulus multiplicatively interact with sensory responses.

Birds have a thick retina devoid of blood vessels - so how do they ensure sufficient oxygen availability? They don't - neurons rely on glycolysis, metabolizing glucose released from the pecten. Insane new study that includes comparative data on lizards and crocs.🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Stereoscope from the 1904 World's Fair

Come to our mini-symposium at SFN on Monday. www.jneurosci.org/content/45/4...

Southwest Airlines: where you feel like you're flying on Spirit, but pay a lot more. Five flights in a row that have been an hour or more late. They have taken a major nose dive over the last month. @southwestairlines.bsky.social

Excited to share some new results that show how retinotopic mapping of disparity in mouse visual areas totally falls apart with monocular deprivation (MD). We also show how that disorganization results in depth discrimination deficits in the MD mice. #neuroscience www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen

The lab at "our table" at Matt's El Rancho.

New article out from the lab led by graduate student Ronan O'Shea on the V1 representation of day and night vision. www.cell.com/cell-reports...

Lab holiday party sans one graduate student, one technician, and one PI on sabbatical in Paris. A full hour dedicated to discussing the arduino controlled light show outside.

Received bad news about Carl Olson. Sad to hear that he passed away. Carl was a major influence on my early years as an Assistant Prof, with our labs down the hall from each other. He was a highly rigorous neurophysiologist, with a wry sense of humor. Please see attached images for more info.

One of the most recent papers published in the lab on eye movements: www.eneuro.org/content/11/6...