CVSUoR

The Center for Visual Science (CVS) is an interdepartmental program that brings together vision scientists at the University of Rochester.

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OUT NOW from Sara Patterson in Brain Sciences: Synaptic Inputs to OFF Parasol Ganglion Cells in Macaque Retina: An Analysis Using Serial Blockface Scanning Electron Microscopy.
https://t.co/32fWxOLHuo #URochesterResearch @FlaumEye

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UR researchers—including BCS Professors @RucciMichele & Duje Tadin, and Director of the Center for Extended Reality Barry Silverstein—are studying the process of human vision from three connected angles. Watch Now: https://t.co/X3elRZbf6y #URochesterResearch @CVSUoR

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NEW from @DrSMSilverstein Utility of zoom-based clinical interviews for automated facial emotion analysis, in Schizophrenia Research. #URochesterResearch https://t.co/QGbHgYgMKH @urmc_psych

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Just one week left to submit your abstract for the Optica Fall Vision Meeting! https://t.co/DWhzjzOKTB @Optica_FVM

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OUT NOW from Ania Majewska: Disrupted maternal care alters neural-microglia interactions in the primate paralaminar (PL) nucleus of the amygdala.
https://t.co/lG79FWmkYi #URochesterResearch @URNeuroscience

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@Optica_FVM 2of2) The award recognises outstanding contributions to vision science. Prof. Gegenfurtner has made groundbreaking contributions in both colour vision and eye-movement research, linking low-level sensory processes, higher level visual cognition, and sensorimotor integration.

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1of2) Karl Gegenfurtner has been selected as the 2026 Boynton Award recipient and will give the Boynton Lecture at this year's Optica Fall Vision Meeting.
https://t.co/a32BCfdA0Z @Optica_FVM

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OUT NOW from Duje Tadin: Dissociating mechanisms of spatial suppression and summation in human visual cortical regions MT/V5: a transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) study and clinical implications. https://t.co/6q7OYw5oZA #URochesterResearch

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CVS members: Don't forget to RSVP for this year's Picnic on July 31!
https://t.co/gP1PItAdVO

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OUT NOW from Zhen Chen & @Neurocircuitlab in eLife: Adult-neurogenesis allows for representational stability and flexibility in early olfactory system. #URochesterResearch https://t.co/53XsRYbEym @URNeuroscience

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New paper from Raja Narayanan in Retinal Cases & Brief Reports: Large and medium choroidal vessel remodelling in progressive age-related macular degeneration and polypoidal choroidal vasculopathy. #URochesterResearch https://t.co/AfGZdNdlPV @FlaumEye

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🎉 Congrats to Zhengyang (Eliot) Xu, who won the 2026 Fall Vision Meeting logo contest! Thanks to everyone who entered--we had some great submissions this year.

The abstract submission deadline is July 15, so don't delay: https://t.co/DWhzjzOKTB

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Register and submit your abstract TODAY for the Optica Fall Vision Meeting! Session details can be found at https://t.co/1GARxPKYBN @Optica_FVM

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#cvstoday June 25-27, Class of 62 Auditorium, URMC

Department of Psychiatry

Consortium for Vision and Oculomics in Psychiatry Third Annual Meeting
https://t.co/gCIMgcUwQ5 @urmc_psych

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NEW from Fei Shang, Kosha Dholakia, & @schalleklab One year of hyperglycemia in the Ins2Akita mouse does not impart changes in retinal vascular patterning, published in PLOS One.
https://t.co/WDvjKSPr62 #URochesterResearch @FlaumEye

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OUT NOW from @JohnnyFoxe in J. Neurodevelopmental Disorders: Neural oscillatory dynamics reveal altered top-down and integrative mechanisms during face processing in autistic children and unaffected siblings of autistic children. #URochesterResearch https://t.co/3mXTc7g2zG

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OUT NOW from Cristina Canavesi: Optical coherence tomography-based deep regression framework for precise estimation of directional and geometric contact angles on polymeric surfaces. #URochesterResearch https://t.co/TH3fQaRLhv

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#cvstoday June 17 at 11am, Kresge Room, 269 Meliora Hall & Zoom (check CVS Slack for link)

BCS Thesis Defense: Zoe Stearns (Advisor: Martina Poletti)

Motor-linked Visual Selection Modulates Foveal Perception Before and After Microsaccades
https://t.co/1BiO7vrpjU

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CVS members: come join us for the CVS Picnic on July 31! RSVP online by July 24: https://t.co/gP1PItAdVO

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New paper from Marc Schieber in Nature: Neural representation of action symbols in primate frontal cortex. #URochesterResearch
https://t.co/aQfntcjeLD @URNeuroscience