Faculty Research: Visual Neuroscience

Current research projects in visual neuroscience include investigations into motion and space perception, signal transducing intermediates in the visual system, natural scene perception and form vision, source localization of evoked potentials, mammalian developmental visual neurobiology, neurophysiological investigations of circuitry in central visual pathways, electrophysiology of color vision and spatial vision, control of eye movements, pupil and accomodation, myopia, emmetropization, and eye growth regulation.

Martin S. Banks, PhD
Binocular vision, motion perception, space perception, infant vision

Yang Dan, PhD
Visual neurophysiology, computational neuroscience

Karen K. DeValois, PhD
Psychophysics and electrophysiology of color vision and spatial vision

Marla B. Feller, PhD
The development of functional circuits in the retina

John G. Flannery, PhD
Gene therapy, inherited retinal degeneration, neurobiology of photoreceptors, signal transducing intermediates in the visual system

Ralph Freeman, OD, PhD
Neurophysiological investigations of circuitry in central visual pathways.

Jack L. Gallant, PhD
Natural scene perception, form vision, attention.

Donald A. Glaser, PhD
Human visual perception, interactions among retina, lateral geniculate, and cortical areas of the brain

Stanley A. Klein, PhD
Spatial vision modeling, psychophysical methods and vision test design, corneal topography and contact lens design, source localization of evoked potentials, fMRI, amblyopia.

Richard H. Kramer, PhD
Chemical signaling within and between neurons.

Dennis Levi, PhD
Mechanisms of pattern vision, and the influence of abnormal visual development on those mechanisms

Bruno A. Olshausen, PhD
Probabalistic models of image representation in visual cortex

W. Geoffrey Owen, PhD
Phototransduction, retinal physiology, adaptation, retinal computation

Lynn C. Robertson, PhD
Attention and perceptual organization in normal and neurological populations, functional hemisphere asymmetries, neuropsychology, cognitive neuroscience

Austin Roorda, PhD
High resolution retinal imaging, adaptive optics, physiological optics, limits of human vision

Michael A. Silver, PhD
Neural correlates of human visual perception and attention

Eugene Switkes, PhD
Color and spatial interactions in visual information processing, accomodation

Richard C. Van Sluyters, OD, PhD
Mammalian developmental visual neurobiology

Frank S. Werblin, PhD
Electrophysiology of local circuit interactions in the neural retina

Gerald Westheimer, PhD
Visual sensory mechanisms

Christine Wildsoet, OD, BSc, PhD
Emmetropization, retinal processing of defocus, choroidal accommodation, retina-choroid-sclera signal pathway, ocular rhythms, pharmacological modulation of eye growth, blur detection, anisometropia, refractive development in albinos