We are very pleased to announce that the Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR) will be funding the project ShootingStar, for 4 years. In this project, in collaboration with the Integrative Neuroscience and Cognition Center, Institut des Neurosciences de la Timone, NeuroPsi, Institut de la Vision we aim at studying the visual perception of fast (over 100 deg/s) motion, especially related to ocular saccades shifting the retinal image at speeds of 100-500 degrees of visual angle per second. How these very fast shifts are suppressed, leading to clear, accurate, and stable representations of the visual scene, is a fundamental unsolved problem in visual neuroscience known as saccadic suppression. The project combines neuroscience, psychophysics, and modeling. Especially, the Biovision team (in collaboration with NeuroPsi – Alain Destexhe) will design a model of the early visual system (retina-LGN-V1) to study saccadic suppression.
For more details: https://team.inria.fr/biovision/anr-shootingstar
