We routinely interact with our environment by orienting to objects of interest. The brain must first process the sensory stimulus and then use this information to generate a motor command. The superior colliculus (SC) is a major subcortical structure involved in the sensory-to-motor transformation of visual signals into motor commands that produce high velocity eye movements known as saccades. Each saccade is associated with activity in a population of SC neurons, and a mechanism is required to decode the ensemble response into a single and appropriate saccade eye movement. In this seminar, I will discuss our recent (and preliminary) work that seeks to understand the decoding mechanism.