Neural Activity In The Retina

Light that enters the eye activates rod and cone photoreceptors, which in turn activate retinal ganglion cells.

Audacious Goals for Puthussery Lab

A project funded through the prestigious National Eye Institute’s Audacious Goals Initiative.

Adaptive Optics

Swati Bhargava from the Roorda lab. The question that motivates the research in the Roorda lab is, "how do humans convert the two-dimensional images that land on the retina into such a rich perceptual experience?"

Eye Tech

A growing number of Vision Science PhDs are finding scientific satisfaction in a demanding and rewarding new industry environment

Smartglasses for All

Berkeley Optometry and Vision Science professor Dr. Emily Cooper has received a five-year NSF Faculty Early Career Development Grant for her project, Smartglasses for All.

Dr. Michael Silver

Michael Silver, Professor of Optometry and Vision Science and Neuroscience, in his lab on the Berkeley campus. The brains behind Dr. Silver are those of his two sons, Talyn and Gryphon. The artwork was made by his wife Jenny as lab warming gift.

Perception and Visual Cognition

Dr. Agostino Gibaldi of the Banks Lab is interested in extending models of sensory processing and oculo-motor behavior from laboratory settings to complex stimuli that more closely resemble real world conditions.

Dr. Roorda's Fovea

New paper from the Roorda Lab: Human foveal cone photoreceptor topography and its dependence on eye length.

Focusing Response

Post-doctoral researchers in the Banks Lab are studying optical and image-based depth cues in current and emerging display technologies. Their research could lead to more comfortable and immersive head mounted display (HMD) technologies and has implications on myopia (nearsightedness) development.

Neural Activity In The Retina

Light that enters the eye activates rod and cone photoreceptors, which in turn activate retinal ganglion cells.

Audacious Goals for Puthussery Lab

A project funded through the prestigious National Eye Institute’s Audacious Goals Initiative.

Adaptive Optics

Eye Tech

A growing number of Vision Science PhDs are finding scientific satisfaction in a demanding and rewarding new industry environment

Smartglasses for All

Berkeley Optometry and Vision Science professor Dr. Emily Cooper has received a five-year NSF Faculty Early Career Development Grant for her project, Smartglasses for All.

Dr. Michael Silver

Perception and Visual Cognition

Dr. Roorda's Fovea

New paper from the Roorda Lab: Human foveal cone photoreceptor topography and its dependence on eye length.

Focusing Response

Neural Activity In The Retina

Light that enters the eye activates rod and cone photoreceptors, which in turn activate retinal ganglion cells.

Applications

PhD Program
By January 6, 2023

News

The Fall 2023 Application is Open!October 19th, 2022

Apply Today! Application closes January 6, 2023.

Celebrating Diwali with PabitaOctober 26th, 2022

Monday, October 24th, was the start of the 5-day long Diwali celebration.

Vision Science RetreatSeptember 28th, 2022

This year’s retreat took place in Tahoe City!

Science at Cal: Dr. Silver’s LectureSeptember 23rd, 2022

“An Inside Look: UC Berkeley’s Center for the Science of Psychedelics.”

New Paper from Stephanie Reeves et al.November 16th, 2022

Title: “Head orientation influences saccade directions during free viewing.”

New Paper from Cooper Lab on ZebrafishNovember 9th, 2022

Researchers at the Cooper Lab recently had a paper published from one of their large collaborative projects on how fish see motion.

Fields of Research

Faculty

The Vision Science faculty constitute a prestigious group of educators and researchers. Click the arrow to learn more about them, including research interests, contact information and links to lab websites.

Students

About 40 graduate students are currently enrolled in the Vision Science program. Their backgrounds include degrees in psychology, biology, engineering, computer science, or optometry.

Admissions

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