On Wednesday, October 28, at 16:00 CET (12:00 in São Paulo), we host the second talk in our Visual Sparks series. Luan Zimmermann Bortoluzzi, a PhD student in the Active Vision Lab at the University of São Paulo, will present “Visual processing of object features during oculomotor programming.”

Before a saccade, attention shifts to the intended target location and visual sensitivity there increases (pre-saccadic attention). Luan asks whether this effect is purely spatial or also depends on the features of the object we are about to fixate, and he tests this in two psychophysical experiments and one EEG study.

The talk lasts 40 minutes and is followed by an open discussion. Luan’s recent work, “Dissociable effects of feature expectation on saccades and presaccadic perception” (Bortoluzzi & Rohenkohl, eLife, in press), is available as a preprint on bioRxiv.

Visual Sparks is open to interested colleagues. To receive the Zoom link, write to us at rolfslab@gmail.com.