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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
We’re hiring! Postdoc position for collaborative 7T fMRI project with Spinoza Center Amsterdam
The University Medical Center Groningen (UMCG) , in collaboration with the Spinoza Centre (SC) for Neuroimaging in Amsterdam, has a position available for a postdoctoral researcher (0.78-1.0 fte = 28-36 hrs per week) to investigate human visual perception using, amongst … Continued
Congratulations, dr. Alessandro!
Congratulations to Alessandro Grillini for successfully defending his PhD thesis entitled ‘Spatio-Temporal Integration Properties of the Human Visual System’. Alessandro defended his thesis on the 11th of November 2020 under tight Covid-19 related restrictions that prevented an audience and most … Continued
NextGenVis fellow’s spin-off Reperio raises its first investment
Reperio, an UMCG spin-off company founded by NextGenVis fellow Alessandro Grillini, raised its first major investment. The company aims to accelerate the diagnostic process for glaucoma and neurodegenerative diseases using eye-tracking technology and analyses developed by Alessandro and colleagues during … Continued
GLANCE Project of Dilce Tanriverdi Receives Funding to Study Visual Crowding under Low-Light Conditions in Glaucoma
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... READ MORE
Mind your ‘stip’!
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... READ MORE
[Position filled] PhD in the “Virtual Reality for enhanced Visual Rehabilitation” (VR4eVR) project
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... READ MORE
Daily life vision captured in a ‘flower’
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.... READ MORE