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Summary of Staff Research Interests

AcademicActive research areas
Arden GB Visual psychophysics
Visual electrophysiology
Cortical evoked potentials
Baker G Normal and abnormal retinal organisation
Organisation of retinal ganglion cell axons
Normal and abnormal development of the retino-geniculate and geniculo-cortical pathways
Plasticity in the developing visual system.
Barbur JL Photometry / Mesopic Visual Performance
Studies of pupil response spectral sensitivity, isolation of pupil response components, pupil perimetry
Retinal image quality / aberrations / scattered light
Effects of diseases of the retina and the optic nerve on visual performance
Blindsight / residual vision studies in patients with damaged central visual pathways
The different uses of chromatic signals in human vision - studies of colour constancy, colour vision testing, colour discrimination (psychophysical and objective methods), colour-defined motion perception
Birch J Colour vision screening in schools
Congenital and acquired colour deficiency
Design of colour vision tests
Occupational colour vision requirements
Buckley RJ Tear deficiency
Therapeutic contact lenses
Keratoconus
Ocular allergy
Corneal transplantation
Douglas RH Animal colour vision
Animal pupillometry
Vertebrate depth perception
Lens pigmentation
Retinal anatomy and pharmacology
Visual pigment biology
Edgar DF Detection of primary open angle glaucoma
Effects of drugs on visual performance
Evidence-based research in primary care optometry
The measurement of light scattered in the human eye
Visual fields
Fahle M Visual psychophysics in normal observers:
Spatio-temporal factors and learning sum potentials in humans
Functional magnetic resonance imaging
Perceptual correlates of cortical damage in patients
Finlay A Visual function in patients with cortical lesions and amblyopes.
Stereopsis and other advantages of binocular vision
Face perception in psychiatric patients
Grant S Abnormal binocular vision & the control of prehension
Eye-hand coordination in amblyopia & effects of treatment
Retinal & visual pathway development in albinism
Synaptic & functional plasticity of the visual system
Hull CC Corneal topography systems and measurement
Intraocular lenses
Instrumentation
Keratoprostheses
Most areas of clinical optics and related instrumentation
Computer-aided optical design
Lawrenson JG Anglogenesis in brain and retina
Anterior segment sensitivity and neurology
Effects of Ischaemia on the CNS
Studies of the barrier properties of microvessels
Morgan MJ Visual psychophysics
Port MJA Contact lens design and performance
Design of ophthalmic instruments
Measurement of contact lenses
Thomson WD Computer applications in optometry
Dyslexia
Effects of glare on visual function
Eye problems with VDUs
Vision screening in schools
Wolf JE Visual psychophysics and electrophysiology (with emphasis on visual pathways: normal and diseased)
Pupillometry

Applied Vision Research Centre

Clinical and Physiological Optics | Visual Neuroscience | Visual Psychophysics and Perception

avrc@city.ac.uk - last updated 20 August 2002.