Did you know that blinking does more than keep your eyes moist? It actually enhances your vision by reformulating spatial information into the temporal domain, acting as an information processing stage.

In Science Alert: ow.ly/7KAA50RkKRz

In PNAS: ow.ly/3hvp50RkKRy

Blinking keeps our eyes moist, but it also plays a key role in how we process visual information, #URochesterResearch has found

We spend 3% to 8% of our waking hours in the ordinary act of blinking—and our visual scientists are learning more about what blinking tells our brains

Why do humans blink more often than is necessary to keep the eye well-lubricated? A study suggests blinks can create changes in luminance that emphasize low-resolution information about the global structure of the visual scene. In PNAS: ow.ly/zCYK50RcJ7b

Nice PNAS commentary from Martin Rolfs and Carolin Hübner on our recent #eyeblink study (bit.ly/3VJNp7v) The Active Perception Lab CVSUoR
RochesterBrainCogSci #URochesterResearch #VisionScience #EyeMovements #ActiveVision
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Losing sight of the big picture? Try blinking.
Just out in PNAS: 'Eye blinks as a visual processing stage' bit.ly/3VJNp7v
From The Active Perception Lab (@CvsUor and RochesterBrainCogSci), #URochesterResearch #VisionScience #EyeMovements #ActiveVision

Great job by Ashley M. Clark (@aplabUR of CVSUoR and RochesterBrainCogSci) in organizing and running a vision science booth at the Rochester Museum & Science Center

Big congrats to two of our graduate students Sanjana and Zoe Stearns for awarded talks on Graduate Student Research Day! We are so proud of your hard work!

Great #i2iworkshop at NYU CAI2R center. Very stimulating to interact with researchers from diverse fields, all joined by a common interest in identifying strategies for processing spatial information.

The The Active Perception Lab of CVSUoR and RochesterBrainCogSci at #VisionSciencesSociety 2023. Great to be back VSS Meeting

At 11am today (Monday) Yuanhao Howard Li The Active Perception Lab CVSUoR RochesterBrainCogSci will report our latest results on #stereovision and #eyemovements using precise control of retinal image motion.

Our #APLab CVSUoR RochesterBrainCogSci has 13 presentations VSS Meeting this year. Martina Poletti and I both gave talks yesterday. Saturday mornin Alessandro Benedetto will talk about space-time encoding (11 am) and Ashley M. Clark will present on foveal micro-scotomas (23.312 Banyan)

Interested in accurately tracking gaze? Here is a detailed description of our digital DPI bit.ly/3HGXACc The high-resolution #eyetracker based on #Purkinje images that we use in much of our research CVSUoR RochesterBrainCogSci
#URochesterResearch #VisionScience

Congratulations to Zhetuo Zhao for successfully defending his PhD thesis. Terrific work with two beautiful studies already published and other articles in process. The Active Perception Lab CVSUoR RochesterBrainCogSci will miss you!

Ultra-fine cognitive control of eye movements without awareness bit.ly/41DwOlR
Collaboration between The Active Perception Lab (@CvsUor and RochesterBrainCogSci), Yen-Chu Lin and J.D. Victor, just published in Current Biology #URochesterResearch #VisionScience #EyeMovements #ActiveVision

New #URochesterResearch shows that involuntary, fixational eye movements play a bigger role in vision than researchers previously thought.

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🚨New Paper Alert!🚨 Take a look at Zhetuo ZHAO most recent publication from our lab, showing the existence of extra-retinal knowledge of gaze position at an ultra-fine scale! A collaboration with Ehud Ahissar, Jonathan D. Victor, and Michele Rucci nature.com/articles/s4146…

Thrilled to see this published. Humans possess very fine motor knowledge of how their eyes move during fixation and use it to infer spatial relations. Vision and motor behavior are inextricably coupled. nature.com/articles/s4146…

Very interesting #ActiveVision article from Ashley M. Clark and Martina Poletti The Active Perception Lab. Individual acuity can be directly inferred by the amount of eye motion when attempting to maintain steady gaze pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn… #VisionScience #EyeMovements

We have openings for talented, highly motivated graduate students interested in #VisionScience . Part of CVSUoR and RochesterBrainCogSci, The Active Perception Lab offers unique facilities and a vibrant environment for cutting-edge research. To apply: bit.ly/3AukdpQ #ActiveVision

Very interesting meeting Reseau Vision in Montreal. I greatly enjoyed attending this meeting and giving a talk.