Perceptual enhancement and suppression correlate with V1 neural activity during active sensing

Vision: Neuronal mechanisms enabling stable perception

Eye movements cause rapid motion of the retinal image, potentially confusable with external motion. A recent study shows that neurons in mouse primary visual cortex distinguish self-generated from external motion by combining sensory input with saccade-related signals from the thalamic pulvinar nucleus.

Vision: Optimizing each glimpse

A new study uses a rigorous approach to isolate the consequences of eye movements on cortical visual processing, showing that our visual system does not shut down during saccades but specifically modulates sensitivity to selected stimuli.