The superior colliculus is a midbrain region that is traditionally thought to help animals orient themselves toward important locations in space, like directing their eyes and head toward a bright ...

The group under Dr. Liana Melo-Thomas from Philipps-Universität Marburg was able to show in previous studies on rats that stimulation of the inferior colliculus—chiefly known for processing ...

S. Katyal, D. Ress, Endogenous attention signals evoked by threshold contrast detection in human superior colliculus, J. Neurosci. 34:3, 892—900 (2014). D. Ress, B. Chandresekaran, Tonotopic ...

The superior colliculus in the mammalian brain takes on many important tasks by making sense of our environment. Any mistakes during the development of this brain region can lead to severe ...

New research reveals that an area in the brain known as the inferior colliculus plays a critical role in processing both sound and touch in the form of mechanical vibrations to create an augmented ...