People with glaucoma often struggle to see in dim lighting, but standard vision tests don’t always capture these everyday challenges. One overlooked factor may be visual crowding. Visual crowding, which is the difficulty of recognizing objects when surrounded by other … Continued
There is a need for simpler methods to assess sensitivity at different visual field locations. In a recent paper in the journal Translational Vision Sciences and Technology, Anne Vrijling and colleagues show that detecting the presence of glaucomatous visual field … Continued
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Our research project “Virtual Reality for enhanced Visual Rehabilitation” (VR4eVR: say ‘VR forever’) aims at finding out how virtual reality (and fMRI) may facilitate visual rehabilitation for hemianopia, which may be necessary after a stroke. Some details on the background … Continued
Visual crowding shows that it is harder to recognize objects when these are surrounded by similar objects, such as in a cluttered environment. The phenomenon has relevance in various ophthalmic and neurological disorders. Assessing crowding can be considered a laboratory … Continued
Eye movements are an integral and critical part of our normal visual behavior, and evaluating these may offer valuable insights for clinical interventions, diagnostics, and understanding visual perception. With raising interest in studying gaze behavior in freely moving participants and … Continued
Visual rehabilitation for hemianopia, which may be necessary after a stroke, can take a long time. Wouldn’t it be very useful if one could do this in the comfort of one’s own home? The answer is obviously ‘yes’, but how … Continued
On July 5th, Marouska van Ommen defended her thesis “Insight into visual hallucinations in psychotic disorders: behavioral and fMRI studies”. Hallucinations, the perception of things that are not physically there, are a core symptom of psychotic disorders. However, little is … Continued
Visual hallucinations are perceptions without a physical stimulus to relate this percept too. It affects millions of people, yet surprisingly little is known about what’s happening in the brain during visual hallucinations. Marouska van Ommen and co-authors published a paper … Continued
There is a need for simpler methods of perimetry – the measurement of retinal sensitivity at different visual field locations. In a recent paper in the journal Vision Research, Anne Vrijling, Minke de Boer and colleagues describe how contrast affects … Continued
Glaucoma is the most common age-related neurodegenerative eye disease in Western society and one of the four major eye diseases causing blindness. Unfortunately, current treatments can only slow the deterioration but do not halt or reverse the process. Despite the … Continued