Research Interests of Current Mentors:
| John Brabyn, Ph.D. Low vision and blindness rehabilitation, sensory impairment, assistive technology. |
| Arvind Chandna, MD. DO. FRCS. FRCOphth Childhood vision disorders, particularly normal and abnormal visual development and oculomotor control in strabismus, amblyopia and cerebral visual impairment. |
| James Coughlan, Ph.D. Applications of computer vision and sensor technologies for people who are blind or visually impaired. |
| Don Fletcher, M.D. Low vision rehabilitation, correlation of macular pathology to functional performance, macular perimetry, reading, and adaptive skill training. |
| Steve Heinen, Ph.D. Attentive and inattentive control of smooth, fixational and binocular eye movements using stimuli inspired by natural objects. |
| Chuan Hou, M.D., Ph.D. EEG source imaging and psychophysical studies of interocular suppression and attention, temporal dynamics of visual processing in amblyopia and strabismus. |
| Lora Likova, Ph.D. Brain plasticity, multisensory perception, memory, learning, and navigation in the blind and sighted, investigated with multimodal brain imaging (fMRI/DTI/EEG/VBM/SBM), and behavioral and VR interventions for neurorehabilitation. |
| Natela Shanidze, Ph.D. Visual/vestibular interactions, eye and head movements in normal vision and central field loss, noise-induced vestibular deficits, mobility - gait and postural control. |
| Santani Teng, Ph.D. Cross-sensory spatial and object perception, braille, echolocation, and mobility in blind and sighted persons, investigated with psychophysical, neuroimaging (fMRI, M/EEG), and engineering approaches. |
| Christopher Tyler, Ph.D., D.Sc.
Brain imaging, electrophysiological, and psychophysical studies of 3D vision, long-range interactions, and temporal processing dynamics in brain trauma and visual disorders. |
| Preeti Verghese, Ph.D. Spatial vision, stereopsis, attention, and eye movements in normal vision and in individuals with macular degeneration, amblyopia and strabismus, using psychophysics, virtual reality, and steady-state VEP. |