JAMPOLSKY FELLOWS REUNION 2023

The 49th Annual Jampolsky Fellows Meeting was held at Smith-Kettlewell on November 7 to 9, 2023.  This meeting was the...

Dual Sensory Impairment: Spatial Localization with Combined Vision and Hearing impairment

Dual sensory impairment (DSI) refers to combined vision and hearing impairment. DSI concerns a large population and its prevalence increases...

Colloquium

Visual perception, eye movements and visual field awareness after central vision loss: Evidence from patients with Macular degeneration, simulated scotoma, and visual training

Macular Degeneration (MD) represents the leading cause of visual impairment in the Western World. Late-stage MD eventually leads to the...

Colloquium

Stereoscopic vision in the praying mantis

Stereopsis – deriving information about distance by comparing views from two eyes – is widespread in vertebrates but so far...

Colloquium

My Perspective on Vision and Vision Rehabilitation

“Vision is the most important sense for guiding our interaction with the environment.” In my career, I have been involved...

Brown Bag

Object Recognition to Support Indoor Navigation for Travelers with Visual Impairments

Independent wayfinding is a major challenge for blind and visually impaired (BVI) travelers. I describe recent work on improvements to...

Brown Bag

Residual stereopsis in anisometropia and small-angle strabismus

We have developed a custom test to measure stereopsis at locations across the visual field to yield a  “stereo map”—...

Brown Bag

Functional Vision and Accessibility (FVA) Conference

Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute presents a hybrid conference centered on translational research to optimize functional vision and accessibility. The meeting’s goal...

Conference

Brain-Based Visual Dysfunction (Cerebral Visual Impairment)

CVI is now the commonest cause of bilateral visual functional loss in children with a visual impairment and the prevalence...

Colloquium

Hybrid Brown Bag: Insights into Binocular Fixational Eye Movements – a study of both eyes and a model. Chandna and Heinen Lab

We show results from our experiments with fixation to an accommodative target in neurotypicals under binocular and monocular viewing conditions...

Brown Bag