A team of researchers, led by David Calkins, PhD, vice chair and director of Research at the Vanderbilt Eye Institute, has made a breakthrough discovery in the field of glaucoma showing new hopes for treatments to preserve vision. In addition, Calkins is encouraged that the findings released in the Proceedings of the National Academy of […]
Congratulations to Dr. Thomas Reppert for receiving a grant from the National Eye Institute! Dr. Reppery has been working with Dr. Jeffrey Schall investigating the neural and computational decision mechanisms that guide, control and monitor behavior. Natural visual behavior consists of scanning a visual image, extracting relevant attributes of a target object, and generating an […]
Announcing Kenneth C. Catania as the Keynote Speaker at VSS 2018 VSS is pleased to welcome Kenneth C. Catania as the VSS 2018 Keynote Speaker. Dr. Catania is the Stevenson Professor of Biological Sciences at Vanderbilt University. He is considered an expert in exotic animal behaviors, focusing on how specialized species reveal general principles about […]
Congratulations to Dr. Jocelyn Sy for being awarded the first Vivien Casagrande Neuroscience Travel Award. Dr. Sy has been awarded this honor based on her research presentation she gave at the Vision Sciences Society meeting earlier this year. Her research in attention and vision has been a vital part of Vanderbilt’s Vision Research since receiving […]
Tonia Rex, Ph.D., is working to develop new tests to detect audio and visual dysfunction in traumatic brain injury (TBI) patients. (photo by Anne Rayner) Vanderbilt researcher Tonia Rex, Ph.D., is accustomed to performing studies in her lab with a goal of translating the findings into better diagnoses and treatment tools for the visually impaired. […]
Jacob Westerberg was selected to receive the 2017 Fine Science Tool Travel Award! Jacob works with both the Alex Maier Lab and the Schall Lab studying the Neuronal characterization of functional interactions between feedforward and feedback signals across visual cortex. As a recipient of this award, Jacob will receive funds towards the cost of attending […]
The Vanderbilt Eye Institute (VEI) recently hosted the Southeastern Vision Conference to celebrate and share excellence in vision science. The two-day seminar held at the Vanderbilt University Marriott brought together three vision research groups from Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC), the University of Alabama at Birmingham and Emory University to foster collaborations among the groups. […]
Congratulations to Dr. Zachary Roper for receiving the 2017 NIH F32 Postdoctoral Fellowship Grant funded by the National Eye Institute! Zachary has been working with Dr. Geoffrey Woodman and Dr. Jeff Schall on the cognitive neuroscience of vision.
Our very own, Kacie Dougherty has been accepted into the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Course “Vision – A Platform for Linking Circuits, Behavior, and Perception”. Kacie is a Graduate Student here at Vanderbilt University with several publications and honor in her name. As a member of the Maier Lab, she has been working to […]
Gordon Logan receives APA Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions by David Salisbury | Apr. 25, 2017, 10:43 AM The American Psychological Association has honored Centennial Professor of Psychology Gordon D. Logan with its most prestigious award for scientific achievement, the APA Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions. Logan is one of four psychologists who are receiving […]
