My research is devoted to investigating facts and developing tools to help the rehabilitation of people with low vision, especially those with macular vision loss.
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Journal Articles
. (2019). Effect of modulating braille dot height on reading regressions. Plos One, 14, 1-17. http://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0214799
. (2016). Eye movement training and suggested gaze strategies in tunnel vision-a randomized and controlled pilot study. Plos One, 11, e0157825.
. (2016). Lokalisation von Skotomen mittels Lesetest bei AMD - Localization of scotomas in AMD by reading test. Der Ophthalmologe, 113, 754–762.
. (2016). Testing macular letter recognition-reliability and influence of refraction errors. Clinical And Experimental Optometry, 99, 322–327.
. (2015). Parafoveal contributions to retinal function during ranibizumab therapy for age-related macular degeneration. Canadian Journal Of Ophthalmology/Journal Canadien D'ophtalmologie, 50, 37–43.
. (2015). Random Word Recognition Chart Helps Scotoma Assessment in Low Vision. Optometry And Vision Science, 92, 421.
. (2013). Everyday use of modern microperimetry in a low-vision service. Canadian Journal Of Ophthalmology/Journal Canadien D'ophtalmologie, 5, e99–e101.
. (2011). Target search and identification performance in low vision patients. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science, 52, 7603–7609.
. (2010). Aging and visual counting. Plos One 5(10): E13434.
. (2010). An improved algorithm for automatic detection of saccades in eye movement data and for calculating saccade parameters. Behavior Research Methods, 42, 701–708.
. (2009). Making the best of remaining vision—the role of focal attention. Neuro-Ophthalmology, 33, 127–131.
. (2009). Parafoveal letter recognition at reduced contrast in normal aging and in patients with risk factors for AMD. Graefe's Archive For Clinical And Experimental Ophthalmology, 247, 43–51.
. (2008). Characteristics of dynamic processing in the visual field of patients with age-related maculopathy. Graefe's Archive For Clinical And Experimental Ophthalmology, 246, 27–37.
. (2007). Cueing attention by relative motion in the periphery of the visual field. Perception, 36, 955-970.
. (2007). Eccentric fixation in Stargardt’s disease assessed by Tübingen perimetry. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science, 48, 5815–5822.
. (2007). Gaze-contingent display for retinal function testing by scanning laser ophthalmoscope. Josa A, 24, 1402–1410.
. (2006). Modulation of visual stimulus discrimination by sustained focal attention: an MEG study. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science, 47, 1225–1229.
. (2004). Eye movement control during single-word reading in dyslexics. Journal Of Vision, 4, 388-402.
. (2002). Pictogram naming in dyslexic and normal children assessed by SLO. Vision Research, 42, 789–799.
. (2001). Rapid, object-based learning in the deployment of transient attention. Perception, 30, 1375–1388.
. (2000). Enhancement of peripheral letter recognition by typographic features. Visual Impairment Research, 2, 95–103.
. (2000). The importance of sustained attention for patients with maculopathies. Vision Research, 40, 1539–1547.
. (2000). Topographic Measurements of Low Contrast Letter Recognition as as a tool for diagnosis and vision rehabilitation. Vision Rehabilitation.
. (2000). Typefaces Influence Peripheral Letter Recognition and Can be Optimized for Reading with Eccentric Viewing. Vision Rehabilitation, C.stuen Et Al.(Eds), 293-294.
. (1999). Use your PC to quickly map remaining vision after foveal vision loss. Perimetry Update 1998/1999,, 307–316.
. (1998). Enhancement of letter recognition by explicit and implicit cueing of transient focal attention. Osa Technical Digest, Sac5, 1, 104-107.
. (1996). Quick assessment of the topography of macular vision loss using a new PC-based field analyzer. Proc. Of The Int'l Low Vision Conference.
. (1994). Comparison of three ways to assess residual vision after macular vision loss. Low Vision-Research And New Developments In Rehabilitation", Kooijman Ac Et Al.(Eds.), 51–58.
. (1994). Mapping the topography of residual vision after macular vision loss. Low Vision - Research And New Developments In Rehabilitation., 59–67.
. (1993). The assessment of residual vision in patients with maculopathies. Non-invasive assessment of the visual system. {Osa} Technical Digest, 3, 274–277.
. (1989). Sustained and transient components of focal visual attention. Vision Research, 29, 1631–1647.
. (1982). Steady state visual evoked potentials in the alert primate. Vision Research, 22, 1261–1271.
. (1980). Narrow spatial and temporal frequency tuning in the alert monkey {VEP}. Brain Research, 193, 263–267.
. (1978). Pursuit eye movements and their neural control in the monkey. Pflügers Archiv European Journal Of Physiology, 377, 15–23.
Conference Papers
. (2005). How patients scan images after foveal vision loss: scanning efficiency and SLO analysis of scanning eye movements. In International Congress Series (Vol. 1282, pp. 645–646). Elsevier.
Presentations/Posters
. (2023). Reading styles modulate perceptual roles of the hands in bimanual braille reading. presented at the 05/2023, Vision Sciences Society Annual Meeting.
. (2020). The haptic kinematics of two-handed braille reading in blind adults. presented at the 09/2020, Eurohaptics: Semi-virtual; Leiden, The Netherlands. Retrieved from https://www.ski.org/project/haptic-kinematics-two-handed-braille-reading-blind-adults
MacKeben Lab
Work in this laboratory is devoted to researching facts and developing tools to help the rehabilitation of people with low vision, especially those with macular vision loss.
Colenbrander lab
Exploring vision-related functioning as it relates to Vision Rehabilitation.
Active
Active
Haptic Kinematics of Two-Handed Braille Reading in Blind Adults
This page (currently under construction) accompanies a work-in-progress poster at the 2020 Eurohaptics meeting.
Completed
Completed
Regressions in Braille Reading
This project explores regressions (movements to re-read text) in braille reading. The image on the right plots the braille reading finger movements in blue and regressions in black.
Completed
Micro-Perimetry by Scanning Laser Ophthalmoscope
We developed software to make the retinal placement of stimuli during micro-perimetry by a scanning laser ophthalmoscope (SLO) independent of involuntary fixational eye movements. This greatly increases the accuracy of the measurement and enhances the ability to reliably repeat...
Completed
Motion as a Cue for Attention
We investigated whether relative motion can serve as a cue for sustained...
Completed
Focal Attention and Letter Recognition
We studied letter recognition in 8 deg eccentricity from the fovea after attracting sustained focal attention to the stimulated location by a cue. Young and elderly healthy subjects, as well as patients with central vision loss participated. We found that the ability to utilize...
Completed
Reading with the Retinal Periphery
Typographical features of letters were manipulated in such a way that frequently occurring letter confusions in eccentric viewing happened less frequently. This demonstrated that a combination of psychophysics and goal-directed modification of typographic features is a viable...
Completed
Dyslexia Project
We studied the ability of dyslexic young teenagers to fluently name pictograms (shapes of objects). We found that some dyslexics are very good at this task, some were even better than the control subjects.
We also investigated whether dyslexics make...
Inactive
Inactive
Reading Random Word Sequences (The SKread Test)
This vision test shows random word sequences that prevent the prediction of upcoming words by linguistic criteria and is simple to score in a clinical setting.
It combines the standardized format of the MNread test with sequences of random words and...
Inactive
The Kinematics of Braille Reading
[Under construction]
When blind persons read braille, a system of raised dots for tactile reading and writing, how is the information processed? How do a few indentations on the fingerpads translate to linguistic information, and how does the text, in turn, influence the motions of the...
Contact Information
Email:
mm@ski.org
Office Phone:
(415) 345-2112
Lab Phone:
(415) 345-2005
Fax:
(415) 345-8455