Projects
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My Vision on Vision
These short chapters summarize insights that I have gained from more than four decades working in vision rehabilitation.
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Neonatal Jaundice and Vision Loss
High concentrations of unconjugated bilirubin are neurotoxic and cause brain damage in newborn infants. However, the exact level of bilirubin that may be neurotoxic in a given infant is unknown.
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Neurodynamics of Braille Reading
[Under construction]
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Completed
Novel Method to Teach Scotoma Awareness
This project aims to improve visual function in individuals with age-related macular degeneration (AMD). AMD isassociated with central field loss that cannot be corrected optically.
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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.
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overTHERE
overTHERE is a virtual Talking Signs iPhone app for blind and visually-impaired pedestrians that demonstrates a powerful audio/haptic interface to location information about businesses and other points of interest.
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Completed
Parafoveal Crowding
Crowding increases with eccentricity, and is most readily observed in the periphery. During natural, active vision however, central vision plays an important role. Measures of critical distance to estimate crowding are difficult in central vision, as these distances are small.
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Active
Patterns of Visual Deficits in Amblyopia
Background Amblyopia means blunted sight in the Greek language and is a term clinicians use to describe decre
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Reach Performance in the Absence of Eye Movements
Aim 1 of Reaching with Central Field Loss
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Active
Reading in mTBI
People with mTBI often complain about dificulty in reading in spite of normal results in usual eye exams. We investigate this issue by looking at accommodation and reading rate and subjective measurement of reading difficuties for a variaty of reading tasks in normal and mTBI population.
