Tyler Lab

Principal Investigator:

Christopher Tyler

Contact Information:

Email: cwt@ski.org

office Phone: (415) 345-2105

2318 Fillmore Street San Francisco, CA 94115

Our work centers on human visual neuroscience and computational vision, especially in the areas of stereoscopic depth, form, symmetry, and motion perception in adults, and the development of tests for the diagnosis of eye diseases in infants and adults. The current focus of the lab is on theoretical, psychophysical, oculomotor and fMRI studies of the integration of cues to the full scope of 3D depth perception. We are particularly interested in the normal capabilities of binocular eye movement control and its disruption by forms of traumatic brain injury.

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Publications

Bonneh, Y. ., & Tyler, C. W. (2025). The Canonical Deep Neural Network as a Model for Human Symmetry Processing. IScience. (Original work published 2025)

Chen, C.-C. ., Chien, C.-H. ., & Tyler, C. W. (2023). Suprathreshold length summation. Journal of Vision, 23, 17-17.

Tyler, C. W., & Likova, L. T. (2022). Brain trauma impacts retinal processing: photoreceptor pathway interactions in traumatic light sensitivity. Documenta Ophthalmologica, 144, 1–12. doi.org/10.1007/s10633-022-09871-1 (Original work published 2022)

Hartelius, G. ., Likova, L. T., & Tyler, C. W. (2022). Self-regulation of the seat of attention Into various attentional stances facilitates access to cognitive and emotional resources: An EEG study. Frontiers in Psychology, 13, 810780–810780. 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.810780 (Original work published 2022)

Tyler, C. W., & Likova, L. T. (2022). Brain trauma impacts retinal processing: photoreceptor pathway interactions in traumatic light sensitivity. Documenta Ophthalmologica, 144, 179-190.

Tyler, C. W. (2022). Francesco Rosselli, Renaissance Cartographer Extraordinaire. Calafia, 22, 7-9.

Tyler, C. W. (2021). The Interstitial Pathways as the Substrate of Consciousness: A New Synthesis. Entropy, 23, 1443. doi.org/10.3390/e23111443 (Original work published 2021)

Tyler, C. W. (2021). A Live Experience of Four-Dimensional Structure. Perception, 50, 165–169. (Original work published 2021)

Likova, L. T., & Tyler, C. W. (2018). Comparative tensor-based morphometry of human brainstem in traumatic photophobia. Scientific Reports, (6256). Retrieved from https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-24386-z (Original work published 2018)

Likova, L. T., & Tyler, C. W. (2018). When light hurts: Comparative morphometry of human brainstem in traumatic photalgia. Scientific Reports, 8(1):6256. doi: 10.1038/s41598-018-24386-z

Tyler, C. W., & Likova, L. T. (2017). Studying the Retinal Source of Photophobia by Facial Electroretinography. Optometry and Vision Science, 94(4). 10.1097/OPX.0000000000001064 PMID: 28338564 (Original work published 2017)

Tyler, C. W., Howard, C. ., & Likova, L. T. (2016). Neural Signal Estimation in the Human Brain. Frontiers in Neuroscience, (979). https://doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2016.00185 (Original work published 2016)

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Completed

Human Oculomotor Functions & Their Deficits in Traumatic Brain Injury

Recent studies have established that a high proportion of patients diagnosed with mild (or diffuse) traumatic brain injury (mTBI) exhibit binocular vision dysfunctions, particularly, deficiencies in the binocular coordination of eye movements.

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Oculomotor Control

The binocular coordination of movements of the eyes is a complex issue controlled by many brainstem nuclei, and is subject to a wide variety of forms of disruption by traumatic brain injury and oculomotor muscles disorders. The goal of this project is to characterize the natural range of the dynamics of the binocular ocuomotor system and their widespread disruptions across the spectrum of human ocolumotor control.

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