Midbrain neurons display attention-related modulation even in the absence of microsaccades, demonstrating that shifts of attention can be dissociated from the generation of microsaccades.

New experiments and theory reveal how the ability to see image details depends upon photoreceptor function and eye movements, and how fruit flies (Drosophila) see spatial details beyond the optical limit of their compound eyes.

Sensory activity within the superior colliculus is read out by downstream motor structures and contributes to individual saccade kinematics with single spike precision.

Slow, continuous changes in eye position when gaze is fixed, previously believed to be random drifts, are shown to exhibit highly systematic and short-latency response characteristics to visual stimuli.

Intact and local emotional biological motion exerted distinct influences on pupil responses, wherein the emotional modulation observed in intact biological motion is linked to individual autistic traits.

Visual narrow-band gamma rhythms are reduced in mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer’s disease, confirming previous rodent research and forming crucial first steps for development of EEG-based biomarkers for humans.

When memorising dynamic visual objects, the brain codes for both the past and the anticipated future object location and co-activates both codes when selecting memories for guiding behaviour.

States of elevated arousal and stable retinal images allow enhanced processing of threshold stimuli in the laminar microcircuits of area V4.

Colored surfaces induce strong gamma-synchronization yet sparse firing in V1 when receptive field inputs are predicted from the surrounding spatial context.

Neural fluctuations in multiple areas along the visual cortical hierarchy could allow the brain to represent distinct co-occurring visual stimuli.