| Ione Fine
Assistant Professor
Department of Psychology
University of Washington
Current Projects
My research examines how the
way we see the world depends on perceptual experience.
The effects of visual deprivation.
This work
involves examining the effects of long term visual deprivation, whereby
regions of brain that normally process vision are taken over by the
auditory and tactile senses, and looking at what blind patients
experience if sight is ever restored.
Computational
psychophysics and fMRI.
Our
laboratory is also interesting in measuring and modeling human behavior
and fMRI responses. These experiments tend to focus on how the human
visual system adapts to the statistics of the visual environment.
Visual prostheses.
I am part of a University of Southern California/Second
Sight
Medical Products Inc. collaboration. My role in the project is to test
and model the perceptions of patients who were implanted
with electrode prostheses (analogous to cochlear implants). The goal is
to restore visual function in patients who have lost photoreceptor
function due to severe retinitis pigmentosa or macular degeneration.
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