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.

Ione Fine
Assistant Professor of Psychology
Guthrie Hall, Rm 233, Box 351525
University of Washington
Seattle, WA 98195-1525
206-685-6157
ionefine at u.washington.edu