This project called “Bianco, a multimedia project on visual deficiencies” by an amazing photographer/photojournalist Stefano da Luigi was sent by photojournalist extraordinaire and friend of Webvision, Trent Nelson. Stefano da Luigi’s work in this photoessay, a winner of the Visa Pour L’Image, Perpignan 2011 Multimedia Award is a stunningly intimate series of images of people experiencing …
Great Salt Lake Spiders
Metabolomic Eye
Notable Paper: Neural Organization and Visual Processing in the Anterior Optic Tubercle of the Honeybee Brain
I have a certain fondness for insects and believe that our understanding of vision and visual pathways can benefit greatly from the study of insect visual systems. Our understanding of visual processing is actually pretty limited and simpler visual systems to study from eye to brain are found in insects compared to vertebrates. In …
Notable Paper: The Newly Sighted Fail to Match Seen With Felt
I missed this paper in the chaos and runup to ARVO, but its conclusions are remarkably compelling. Imagine that you were blind for years, perhaps from birth and suddenly, you were able to see with perfect clarity. Would you be able to recognize items like a pyramid, a box or a sphere by sight when …
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Bonneville Speed Week, 2011
Tour de Utah
Toxic Anterior Segment Syndrome (TASS)
Photographer: Paula F. Morris, CRA, FOPS Moran Eye Center. Diffuse and tangentially illuminated images of corneal deposits and folks in TASS Syndrome. Images taken a using a Zeiss clinical slit-lamp biomicroscope with a Nikon D1S digital back at 24 X and 40 X. TASS or Toxic Anterior Segment Syndrome is an inflammation of the anterior segment of …
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Monkey Photobomb
Western Tanager
Foveal Avascular Zone
This is normal fluorescein angiogram of a human retina showing the tunic of capillaries that surround the fovea and rather nicely illustrates the Foveal Avascular Zone (FAZ) discussed in The Simple Anatomy of The Retina. Photograph was made by James Gilman of the Moran Eye Center.
Retinal Remodeling in the Tg P347L Rabbit, a Large-Eye Model of Retinal Degeneration
100 Papers You Should Read: Visual Pigments of Single Goldfish Cones
This is the fourth paper in the category, 100 Papers You Should Read (in vision science). William Rushton once said “The trouble with colour vision is the mentality of those that write on it-and of those that read. In most aspects of physiology it is sufficient to offer a fairly plausible and adequate hypothesis; but colour …
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