- Duke University, Department of Neurobiology, Laboratory of Dr. Stephen Lisberger, Senior Research Associate
- Harvard Medical School, Department of Neurobiology, Laboratory of Dr. John Maunsell, Postdoctoral Associate
- University of Pittsburgh, Department of Neuroscience, Laboratory of Dr. Marc Sommer, PhD
Education & Training
Ye J, Rizzoglio F, Smoulder A, Mao H, Ma X, Marino P, Chowdhury R, Moore D, Blumenthal G, Hockeimer W, Kunigk NG, Mayo JP, Batista A, Chase S, Rouse A, Boninger ML, Greenspon C, Schwartz AB, Hatsopoulos NG, Miller LE, Bouchard KE, Collinger JL, Wehbe L, Gaunt R. A Generalist Intracortical Motor Decoder. bioRxiv. 2025 Feb 6;. doi: 10.1101/2025.02.02.634313.
Noneman KK, Patrick Mayo J. Decoding Continuous Tracking Eye Movements from Cortical Spiking Activity. Int J Neural Syst. 2025 Jan;35(1):2450070. doi: 10.1142/S0129065724500709. Epub 2024 Nov 15.
Prakash SS, Mayo JP, Ray S. Dissociation of Attentional State and Behavioral Outcome Using Local Field Potentials. eNeuro. 2024 Nov;11(11). doi: 10.1523/ENEURO.0327-24.2024.
Szczupak D, Schaeffer DJ, Tian X, Choi SH, Fang-Cheng, Iack PM, Campos VP, Mayo JP, Patsch J, Mitter C, Haboosheh A, Kwon HS, Vieira MAC, Reich DS, Jacobson S, Kasprian G, Tovar-Moll F, Lent R, Silva AC. Direct interhemispheric cortical communication via thalamic commissures: a new white matter pathway in the primate brain. Cereb Cortex. 2024 Jan 14;34(1). doi: 10.1093/cercor/bhad394.
Willett SM, Mayo JP. Reply to van Ede: Pulling on the threads of microsaccades and attention: What's left? Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2023 Aug 29;120(35):e2311468120. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2311468120. Epub 2023 Aug 21.
The Mayo Lab studies the influence of eye movements on the activity of visual neurons in the cerebral cortex. We hope to bridge the gap between well-controlled laboratory experiments and dynamic, natural primate vision. We record from large populations of neurons in critical nodes of the brain to directly observe how visual information from the retina is transformed into adaptive commands to move the eyes. Our goal is to understand the neuronal mechanisms of visual-motor interactions in order to: 1) facilitate the development of clinically viable treatments of visual impairments; and 2) provide a broad foundation for understanding how the brain seamlessly links perception and movements.