Jason Samonds
@jason-samonds.bsky.social
Neuroscientist and engineer at the University of Texas at Austin. I study neural activity in the visual cortex, especially related to binocular disparity computations.
Stereoscope from the 1904 World's Fair
November 22, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Stereoscope from the 1904 World's Fair
Come to our mini-symposium at SFN on Monday. www.jneurosci.org/content/45/4...
The Richness of Vision in the Mammalian Brain: Neural Codes for Visual Perception and Behavior in Three Dimensions
Successful navigation and interactions with objects in a complex, three-dimensional (3D) world are essential to survival, yet studies of the neural basis of visual perception and action often treat th...
www.jneurosci.org
November 12, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Come to our mini-symposium at SFN on Monday. www.jneurosci.org/content/45/4...
August 10, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Southwest Airlines: where you feel like you're flying on Spirit, but pay a lot more. Five flights in a row that have been an hour or more late. They have taken a major nose dive over the last month. @southwestairlines.bsky.social
August 4, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Southwest Airlines: where you feel like you're flying on Spirit, but pay a lot more. Five flights in a row that have been an hour or more late. They have taken a major nose dive over the last month. @southwestairlines.bsky.social
August 2, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Excited to share some new results that show how retinotopic mapping of disparity in mouse visual areas totally falls apart with monocular deprivation (MD). We also show how that disorganization results in depth discrimination deficits in the MD mice. #neuroscience
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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May 23, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Excited to share some new results that show how retinotopic mapping of disparity in mouse visual areas totally falls apart with monocular deprivation (MD). We also show how that disorganization results in depth discrimination deficits in the MD mice. #neuroscience
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Reposted by Jason Samonds
Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen
April 9, 2025 at 6:33 AM
Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen
The lab at "our table" at Matt's El Rancho.
January 24, 2025 at 3:43 PM
The lab at "our table" at Matt's El Rancho.
New article out from the lab led by graduate student Ronan O'Shea on the V1 representation of day and night vision. www.cell.com/cell-reports...
Luminance invariant encoding in mouse primary visual cortex
O’Shea et al. investigates how the transition between cone- and rod-mediated vision
affects neural representations in central visual areas of the mouse. Whereas the thalamus
inherits luminance-depende...
www.cell.com
January 21, 2025 at 3:08 PM
New article out from the lab led by graduate student Ronan O'Shea on the V1 representation of day and night vision. www.cell.com/cell-reports...
Lab holiday party sans one graduate student, one technician, and one PI on sabbatical in Paris. A full hour dedicated to discussing the arduino controlled light show outside.
December 8, 2024 at 3:14 PM
Lab holiday party sans one graduate student, one technician, and one PI on sabbatical in Paris. A full hour dedicated to discussing the arduino controlled light show outside.
Reposted by Jason Samonds
Received bad news about Carl Olson. Sad to hear that he passed away. Carl was a major influence on my early years as an Assistant Prof, with our labs down the hall from each other. He was a highly rigorous neurophysiologist, with a wry sense of humor. Please see attached images for more info.
December 2, 2024 at 12:30 AM
Received bad news about Carl Olson. Sad to hear that he passed away. Carl was a major influence on my early years as an Assistant Prof, with our labs down the hall from each other. He was a highly rigorous neurophysiologist, with a wry sense of humor. Please see attached images for more info.
One of the most recent papers published in the lab on eye movements: www.eneuro.org/content/11/6...
Interactions between Saccades and Smooth Pursuit Eye Movements in Marmosets
Animals use a combination of eye movements to track moving objects. These different eye movements need to be coordinated for successful tracking, requiring interactions between the systems involved. H...
www.eneuro.org
November 7, 2024 at 4:00 AM
One of the most recent papers published in the lab on eye movements: www.eneuro.org/content/11/6...