The Smith-Kettlewell Board of Director’s Meeting

All Conference Rooms are booked for this meeting.

Meeting

Motion Perception in Central Field Loss

  Abstract: Healthy peripheral retina is exquisitely sensitive to fast speeds. Individuals with central field loss (CFL) typically only have...

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An informal Colloquium:

Teachers of The Visually Impaired (TVI) from the Blind Babies Foundation (BBF) will be visiting us this Thursday, November 15, 2018.  ...

Workshop

Low Vision Support Group, 11/7/18: The Importance of Vision in Understanding the Spoken Word: Hearing and Vision

Understanding speech involves both hearing AND vision. In this presentation, Dr. Helen J. Simon will describe hearing loss and how...

Low Vision Support Group

Interocular suppression and selective visual attention in amblyopia

Abstract Attention allows us to select the most important information while ignoring irrelevant information. One prominent role of attention is...

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The NIH Study Study Section Review Process – a special Lunchtime talk

Abstract: I will give a brief overview of the review process at the SPC study section at NEI. This will...

Seminar

Attentive and subconscious mechanisms of smooth pursuit

Abstract: Ocular smooth pursuit is fragile and therefore a sensitive biomarker of many neurological problems. But numerous disorders produce similar...

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Pension Plan Updates and Education Sessions

This is a review on Skeri’s pension education which was held on September 18th. The Pension Committee has been working on...

Administration

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Role of luminance contrast in depth perception from disparity

Abstract: Binocular disparity is a precise depth cue yet in view of its derivation from binocular geometry. it is generally...

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Stopping the Rise of Myopia

Abstract: Myopia (near-sightedness) is on the rise worldwide. In East and Southeast Asia, up to 95% of young people require...

Colloquium