Peter Thier

The paper shows Purkinje cells in the cerebellum encode forward and inverse models for saccades in opposite directions, based on their projection targets.

This study shows rhesus monkeys can categorize facial expressions and generalize to novel stimuli, with performance influenced by expression components and signaler characteristics.

This study shows that PMv activity during action observation reflects variables related to the observer's own action rather than just the observed action.

The paper shows humans can follow eye-gaze cues from both human and rhesus monkey avatars equally well, challenging the idea that ocular morphology limits gaze-following ability.

This study shows that rhesus macaques use direct gaze combined with threat expressions to speed up gaze-following, while submissive expressions delay it when gaze is averted.

This study shows rhesus monkeys can use eye gaze to direct attention, but only when gaze is combined with head movement or when the stimulus is close, suggesting eye gaze is not uniquely human.

This study introduces a minimally invasive ECoG method in common marmosets using circumscribed trepanations and high-density electrode arrays for long-term cortical monitoring.

This paper tests two hypotheses about gaze following and intention attribution using motion aftereffects, finding no support for either at the population level but noting individual variability.

This study investigates whether the Gaze Following Patch (GFP) in the posterior temporal cortex differentiates between social gaze cues and symbolic spatial cues like arrows, finding no such differentiation.

This paper shows that nonhuman primates, like humans, use the prior assumption that the visual world is vertical to perceive orientation, as demonstrated by their biased subjective visual vertical responses to tilted visual frames.

This study shows that primate saccade generation is rooted in a rhythmic source, consistent across human, macaque, and marmoset species.

The paper shows that F5 mirror neurons in macaques poorly match action codes during observation and execution, challenging the motor representation hypothesis of action understanding.

The paper shows the cerebellum performs multi-dimensional computations for flexible movement control by analyzing neural activity in monkeys during a saccade task.

This study challenges the idea that a specific brain region is dedicated to processing communicative gaze, showing it overlaps with motion-processing areas.

This study investigates the role of FEF neurons in saccade initiation, finding that motor neurons better predict saccades than visuomotor neurons, supporting the variable rate model but highlighting unexpected dependence on afferent input.

This paper identifies a scotopic preferred-processing pathway in primates that relocates the scotopic center based on light intensity and perceptual uncertainty.

This study investigates how reward value and temporal gaps affect express saccades in rhesus macaques, finding that express saccades are insensitive to target value but responsive to salience.

The paper shows that V1 neurons in monkeys use knowledge of torsion to compensate for image tilt associated with specific eye positions as dictated by Listings law.

The paper investigates how dynamic facial expressions are perceptually encoded across species, finding that face dynamics are represented independently of facial shape.

This paper introduces a deep learning algorithm to detect complex spikes in Purkinje cells, achieving expert-level accuracy with faster performance than manual inspection.

The paper identifies a neural module in the posterior temporal cortex that flexibly links another's gaze direction to objects of interest, facilitating joint attention.

The paper examines individual differences in gaze upshift when monkeys are exposed to dark backgrounds, finding that prior training in light or dark conditions significantly affects the magnitude of the response.

The paper identifies a three-component neural network involved in disambiguating objects of joint attention using fMRI data.

The paper shows that monkeys fixate small targets in scotopic vision by directing the fovea above the target, aligning the image with the locus of maximal rod density rather than the fovea.