The APLab (aplab.bcs.rochester.edu/index.html) is hiring graduate students! We are looking for talented students with a strong interest in vision science, a background in related areas, and experience with data analysis and computer programming. To apply send us your CV!

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

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...

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...

Congratulations to Dr. Yang on your graduation, and best of luck in your academic career! 🎉The APLab will miss you!

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 Read More ➡️ bit.ly/3GcWIaO

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! www.youtube.com/watch?v=svue...

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...

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 🏅🎉