Psychophysical Laboratory of Vision

Axis 1: Sensory, motor and cognitive functions and activities
Theme 1: Functional Mechanisms

Description

The Psychophysical Laboratory of Vision studies the impact of healthy and pathological aging, as well as mild craniocerebral trauma, on visual perception by developing psychophysical paradigms to evaluate the processes underlying visual perception, including the role of attention in perception of movement and limiting visual sensitivity.

Current areas of research include the development of functional tests to assess the effectiveness of photoreceptors and enable the early diagnosis of ocular pathologies such as age-related macular degeneration, and the development of new functional paradigms to assess the impact mild craniocerebral trauma on the visual attention involved in the perception of movement.

key-words

Vision; Visual perception; Psychophysics; Motion perception; Visual attention; Contrast sensitivity; Aging; Mild traumatic brain injury; Age-related macular degeneration