Projects

Blind Arduino Project

The Blind Arduino Project grew out of a community effort led by Dr. Miele in late 2015 to better understand barriers faced by blind people wanting to participate in the vibrant global culture of DIY hardware prototyping.

Arduino is an inexpensive, open-source electronics platform used by everyone from young hobbyists to high-tech developers to build computerized devices integrating sensors, motors, displays, wireless communications, and a host of other tools. Arduino is used in schools to teach children basic principles of design and computer science, in industry to quickly and inexpensively…

Texture Segmentation in Human Infants and Adults with Amblyopia

 

This project study the neural mechanisms of texture and motion based segmentation as basic inputs to object processing. This project used frequency-domain non-linear analysis of high-density EEG recordings in human infants. We also used fMRI-informed EEG source-imaging combined with psychophysics to study texture segmentation processing and the role of attention in normal adults and in adults with amblyopia.

 

The Role of Selective Visual Attention in Amblyopic Suppression

Individuals with strabismus are confronted with double vision, their brain has to choose to attend to one image and ignore or suppress the other. It has been commonly suggested that a constant suppression on the non-preferred eye in strabismus is responsible for the development of amblyopia. In the current project, we study the role of top-influences of attention in amblyopic suppression and test the hypothesis that visual suppression in amblyopia may be a form of long-term attentional “neglect”.