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Mentored by world-class scientists, fellows receive postdoctoral training in visual development, strabismus and amblyopia, eye movements, visual attention, brain plasticity, mobility, low vision/blindness rehabilitation and assistive technologies—using approaches such as psychophysics, eye and head tracking, clinical assessment, computational modeling, EEG, fMRI, computer vision, AI, and sensor technologies.


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Our Mission

Our mission is to create a unique environment for research on human vision  to increase the understanding of normal vision in support of vision disorders, clinical research to develop new diagnostic procedures and treatments for visual and other sensory disorders, and engineering research to produce better techniques for aid and rehabilitation of the blind and partially sighted.

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Recent Publications

Hartelius, G. ., Likova, L. T., Haldeman, D. ., Sester, M. ., Elfers, J. ., & Tyler, C. W. (2025). Evidence that Attentional Stance Shift is Learned Rapidly, Reliably Induces Mindfulness, and Constitutes a Distinctive Marker of Cognitive Process. Mindfulness, 1-15. (Original work published 2025)
Good, W. V., Wong, R. J., Norcia, A. ., Hou, C. ., Cellucci, J. ., McGovern, M. ., … Bhutani, V. K. (2025). Effect of bilirubin on visuocortical development in preterm infants. Journal of Perinatology. 10.1038/s41372-025-02213-4 (Original work published 2025)
Bonneh, Y. ., & Tyler, C. W. (2025). The Canonical Deep Neural Network as a Model for Human Symmetry Processing. IScience. (Original work published 2025)
Rubinstein, J. F., Alcalde, N. G., Chopin, A. ., & Verghese, P. . (2025). Oculomotor challenges in macular degeneration impact motion extrapolation. Journal of Vision, 25(1). 10.1167/jov.25.1.17
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Smith-Kettlewell's research depends on the participation of patients and healthy volunteers of all ages.

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Latest News

Hoover Chan Honored with a Lifetime Service Award

The Vision Science Society (VSS) has awarded former SKERI fellow and long-time researcher and affiliate, Hoover Chan, the 25th Anniversary VSS Lifetime Service Award for his "invaluable service to the international vision science community through his tireless, continuous maintenance of CVNet [listserv], with all the technical skills, scientific knowledge and diplomacy that role has commanded over the last 40 years."

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