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The Active Perception Lab

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Welcome to the Active Perception Lab's Bluesky account! We study visual perception, eye movements and attention at aplab.bcs.rochester.edu. 👀 email: aplab@ur.rochester.edu

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Michele Rucci @michele-rucci.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Delighted to see our latest test of Active Space-Time Visual Encoding published! Saccades do more than select where we look: their amplitude also helps determine what information we extract from a scene, as predicted by the transients they generate.
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The Active Perception Lab @aplabur.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
A tiny loss of central vision is enough to reorganize where we look—at the scale of just a few arcminutes 👁️ Our new Current Biology Correspondence, led by Ben Moon, reveals remarkably fine-scale visuomotor plasticity in response to a simulated subfoveal scotoma. authors.elsevier.com/a/1ndEe3QW8S...
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The Active Perception Lab @aplabur.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Congratulations to Dr. Guzhang🎓, another APLab graduate 👏 ready to go on with a postdoc at Boston University! Thanks for all these years of dedication and hard work in the lab!!
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The Active Perception Lab @aplabur.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Our review with Alessandro Benedetto (UniFI) on the speed of visual processing across the visual field is out in Current Opinion in Neurobiology! Spoiler: visual processing is slower in the fovea 👀 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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The Active Perception Lab @aplabur.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
We are on a roll! Here is another freshly baked Ph.D. made in the APLab! Congratulations Dr. Stearns!🥳
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The Active Perception Lab @aplabur.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
The ApLab is hiring postdocs and graduate students! Interested? email: martina_poletti@urmc.rochester.edu aplab.bcs.rochester.edu/open_positio... #Postdoc #PhDJobs #VisionScience #Neuroscience #EyeTracking #AcademicJobs
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UR Center for Visual Science @cvsuor.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
🎊 Congrats to this year's recipients of ARVO/VSS travel grants: Derek Power, Aldo Tecse, Sabina Poudel, Hector Baez, & Krish Prahalad. Each recipient was awarded $1000 each, supported by the @flaumeye.bsky.social & CVS. www.cvs.rochester.edu/about/news.h...
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CVS announces recipients of ARVO/VSS travel grants
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The Active Perception Lab @aplabur.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
New eLife @elife.bsky.social reviewed preprint from our lab by Y. Guzhang in collaboration with F. Jaeger! We show that exogenous attention can be fine-tuned within the foveola, selectively enhancing contrast sensitivity in a spatial-frequency-dependent manner. elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...
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Frequency-dependent modulation of foveal contrast sensitivity by fine-scale exogenously triggered attention
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The Active Perception Lab @aplabur.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
New paper from our lab in iScience @cp-iscience.bsky.social by Clark and Prahalad! We show that visual crowding follows distinct dynamics in foveal and extrafoveal vision and that the magnitude of crowding changes with eccentricity even near the center of gaze. www.cell.com/iscience/ful...
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Distinct eccentricity-driven dynamics in foveal and extrafoveal visual crowding
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The Active Perception Lab @aplabur.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Another freshly minted Ph.D. from APLab! Huge congratulations, Dr. Jenks! 🎓
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The Active Perception Lab @aplabur.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Congratulations to the UNIFI (University of Florence) team (Alessandro Benedetto, Roberto Arrighi and colleagues), and a big thank-you to Ruei Wu for setting up a dDPI eyetracker and gaze-contingent display setup in their lab! 🙌
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The Active Perception Lab @aplabur.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
And here we go again! Another APlab graduate, congratulations Dr. Kapisthalam!!🥳 It was great to see so many people cheering for you!
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The Active Perception Lab @aplabur.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
Huge congratulations, Dr. Li! We’re grateful for everything you brought to the lab and excited to see what you do next. Wishing you all the best! 🎉
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The Active Perception Lab @aplabur.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Congratulations to Krish Prahalad and the rest of the team for our first AOSLO psychophysics paper on foveal crowding, now out in Current Biology! 🎉 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @currentbiology.bsky.social #NIH funded research
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Non-uniform signal pooling across the foveola
Object recognition is impacted by visual crowding. This phenomenon, attributed to cortical pooling, is generally studied in the periphery. Crowding me…
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The Active Perception Lab @aplabur.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
The APLab (aplab.bcs.rochester.edu/index.html) is hiring graduate students! We are looking for talented students with a strong interest in vision science, a background in related areas, and experience with data analysis and computer programming. To apply send us your CV!
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The Active Perception Lab @aplabur.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
New in the Journal of Neuroscience by Wang et al. When we fixate on one spot, the eyes are far from idle. Here we show that this task depends on two coordinated processes: generating precise microsaccades when needed and suppressing or delaying those that are not. bit.ly/4fTssiQ
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UR Department of Brain & Cognitive Sciences @uor-braincogsci.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Congrats to Riesa Cassano & Rithwik Cherian, recipients of this year’s Open Scholarship Awards, & Sanjana Kapisthalam, recipient of the Edward Peck Curtis Award for excellence in teaching! opensci.lib.rochester.edu/open-scholar...
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The Active Perception Lab @aplabur.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
New in eNeuro By Benedetto et al! 🎉 The speed of visual discrimination is not uniform; perifoveal stimuli are processed faster than foveal ones.
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The Speed of Visual Discrimination Differs between Foveola and Perifovea: A Combined EEG and Behavioral Investigation
Despite the vivid experience of homogeneous vision, our visual system is inherently endowed with highly inhomogeneous structures. Although the temporal characteristics of visual responses vary with ec...
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The Active Perception Lab @aplabur.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Excited to share our latest study “Asymmetries in foveal vision” by Jenks, Carrasco and Poletti. Using high-resolution eye tracking, we show that perceptual asymmetries exist even within the foveola, and they differ from the well-known extrafoveal asymmetries. doi.org/10.1523/JNEU...
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Asymmetries in foveal vision
Visual perception is characterized by known asymmetries in the visual field; human’s visual sensitivity is higher along the horizontal than the vertical meridian, and along the lower than the upper ve...
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The Active Perception Lab @aplabur.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Congratulations to Dr. Yang on your graduation, and best of luck in your academic career! 🎉The APLab will miss you!
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Del Monte Institute for Neuroscience @urneuroscience.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Yue Guzhang is a fourth-year student in the @uor-braincogsci.bsky.social at the @urochester.bsky.social in the @aplabur.bsky.social studying how attention and fixational eye movements influence our ability to see fine details in the fovea #URochesterResearch Read More ➡️ bit.ly/3GcWIaO
Even though the foveal region takes up a large portion of the brain’s visual processing area, it hasn’t been studied as much as other parts of our visual field, mostly because it's technically challenging to precisely track where people are looking.”
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The Active Perception Lab @aplabur.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
New paper on microsaccades, motor planning, and covert attention out in Scientific Reports (www.nature.com/articles/s41...), by Brandolani et al in collaboration with the University of Bologna @unibo.bsky.social! @erc.europa.eu @urochester.bsky.social
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Distinct modulation of microsaccades in motor planning and covert attention - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Distinct modulation of microsaccades in motor planning and covert attention
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The Active Perception Lab @aplabur.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Congratulations again to Yang, Intoy and Rucci for the PNAS Cozzarelli Prize! www.youtube.com/watch?v=svue...
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Why We Blink—and How It Enhances Visual Perception | Cozzarelli Prize-Winning Research
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The Active Perception Lab @aplabur.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Many congratulations to Bin Yang and Michele Rucci who won the PNAS Cozzarelli prize (www.nasonline.org/news/2024-co...) for their paper on "Eye blinks as a visual processing stage" (www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....)! 🎉👏 @uor-braincogsci.bsky.social @cvsuor.bsky.social @urochester.bsky.social
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PNAS Announces Six 2024 Cozzarelli Prize Recipients - NAS
WASHINGTON, DC – The Editorial Board of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) has selected six papers published by PNAS in 2024 to receive the Cozzarelli Prize, an award that reco...
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The Active Perception Lab @aplabur.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
New article out in the Journal of Vision! Explaining common misconceptions about the theory of active space-time encoding. jov.arvojournals.org/article.aspx...
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The visual system does not operate like a camera | JOV | ARVO Journals
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The Active Perception Lab @aplabur.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Congratulations to Sanjana Kapisthalam (Aplab grad student) for receiving the University of Rochester 2025 Edward Peck Curtis Award for Excellence in Teaching by a Graduate Student!! Well deserved! @urochester.bsky.social @uor-braincogsci.bsky.social 🏅🎉
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