Topic

Visual Perception

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Research Areas

Recruiting

We study how people adapt to vision loss and restored sight, and how training, rehabilitation, and better outcome measures can improve everyday visual function.

Lily M. Turkstra

We use immersive VR, eye tracking, and mobile EEG to study how people navigate complex environments, how they use navigation aids, and why strategies and performance differ across individuals.

Mary Hegarty Michael Beyeler Barry Giesbrecht

We study how people use changing sensory signals to navigate, including how they actively sample visual and auditory gradients and combine unreliable cues across senses.

Matthieu Louis Michael Beyeler

Publications

We developed a data-driven neural control framework for a visual cortical prosthesis in a blind human, showing that deep learning can synthesize efficient, stable stimulation patterns that reliably evoke percepts and outperform conventional calibration methods.

Rather than pursuing a (degraded) imitation of natural sight, bionic vision might be better understood as a form of neuroadaptive XR: a perceptual interface that forgoes visual fidelity in favor of delivering sparse, personalized cues shaped (at its full potential) by user intent, behavioral context, and cognitive state.