Congratulations, dr. Azzurra!
On November 1st, Azzurra Invernizzi defended her thesis “A computational view of the brain plasticity at rest”. In her studies, she describes a number of studies on the use of resting-state fMRI to better understand the human brain in health … Continued
Congratulations, dr. Minke!
On October 13th, Minke de Boer defended her PhD thesis “Keeping track of emotions; Audiovisual integration for emotion recognition and compensation for sensory degradations captured by perceptual strategies”. In her thesis, she describes a number of studies on human visual … Continued
Keeping an eye out on the visual field
Perimetry, – the measurement of retinal sensitivity at different visual field locations–is an essential and often used procedure in ophthalmology. The most common technique for this is Standard Automated Perimetry. For various reasons, this technique is less suitable for use … Continued
As time goes by …..
How does the brain of patients with the ophthalmic disease glaucoma change over time? In a paper published in “Frontiers in Human Neuroscience”, Shereif Haykal and co-authors show that over a period of several years, the visual pathways of glaucoma … Continued
Promise project nominated
The Promise project, a collaboration of UMCG’s LEO, Royal Dutch Visio, the RUG, and Reperio has been nominated for the Health Valley Bridge price. The price highlights projects that use technology to ensure longer independent living. The SONDA technology for … Continued
OptiVisT: final chance to apply for one of the 15 PhDs in our new EU training program
Are you, like us, fascinated by vision, the brain and technology and consider it important to help visually impaired people? Do you have an inquisitive mind, and are you looking for a PhD position embedded in an international innovative training … Continued
Joana Carvalho named “Portuguese woman scientist of the year”
Joana Carvalho, former PhD student of the lab, was awarded the UNESCO-L’Oreal price for “Portuguese woman scientist of the year”. The good news does not stop there for Joana. She also got a personal EU Marie Curie Fellowship for her … Continued
Joana Carvalho wins BCN thesis award
During the on-line Wintermeeting of the Research School of Behavioral and Cognitive Neurosciences on Feb. 4th 2021, “our” Joana Carvalho has won the “best thesis of the year award” for her PhD thesis “Plasticity of Cortical Visual Field Representations” which … Continued
Blurred emotions
Sensory loss in either the eyes or the ears affects our ability to recognize emotions, but does loss in both eyes and ears further worsen our ability to interpret multisensory signals? In a recent paper published in the journal “Vision … Continued
With an eye to the future
University Medical Centre Groningen’s (UMCG) Laboratory of Experimental Ophthalmology (LEO) and Bulbitech AS to collaborate on the evaluation of eye-movement based ophthalmic screening techniques. Facilitated by an equipment grant from the UMCG, the Laboratory of Experimental Ophthalmology (LEO) has signed … Continued
Visual Hallucinations and the Curious Absence of Activity in the Primary Visual Cortex
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... READ MORE
The details are in the contrast
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... READ MORE
15 PhD positions in Advanced Glaucoma Research in NL/DE/FR/NO
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... READ MORE
Fog illusion
Recently, science journalist Karel Knip of Dutch newspaper NRC handelsblad asked Frans Cornelissen the question of whether objects could appear larger in fog or at dusk than they really are. In his column... READ MORE