Retired Faculty

Affiliations Professor Emerita of Psychology and Vision Science Professor Emerita, Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute Research Interactions of color and luminance cues; Analysis of visual motion The visual system can construct two largely separate maps of the world, using differences in luminance and differences in color as the input information. Although these two maps are quite …

Dr. Weissman was educated at Santa Monica College, UCLA, and the University of California at Berkeley. He received his BSc (1970), OD (1972), MSc (1975), and PhD (1979) in Physiological Optics from the UC Berkeley School of Optometry. He was a member of the Contact Lens Service of the Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical School Department of …

Research Laser spectroscopy to study excited-state reaction dynamics in photoactive proteins and to develop novel microfabricated chemical and biochemical analysis devices. The Mathies group uses modern laser spectroscopic techniques including resonance Raman spectroscopy, time-resolved vibrational spectroscopy, and femtosecond time-resolved absorption spectroscopy to study chemical and biological reaction dynamics with a particular focus on the mechanism …

Dr. Walker-Brandreth, a clinical professor and former director of the ocular diagnosis clinics at Berkeley, is widely recognized as one of the most influential clinical instructors in the history of Berkeley Optometry. She taught more than 25 didactic courses on ocular and systemic disease, ocular pharmacology, and clinical examination of the visual system, as well …

Affiliations Professor of the Graduate School, Division of Neurobiology, MCB Research Interests Optics and the eye; retinal and central processing of spatial visual information Behavioral measurements of sensory discrimination in humans often yield remarkably small values. At first glance, they may seem incompatible with the anatomical and physiological detection apparatus; for example, binaural time intervals …

Research Interests Clinical electrophysiology (ERG, EOG, VEP) of normal vision, and of inherited and acquired retinal disease; mechanisms of color vision in normal and color defective eyes; development of new techniques of clinical electrophysiology

Duties Professor of the Graduate School Research Interests Binocular vision; human development, ocular motility, strabismus, and amblyopia The central theme of my research activities is motor-sensory properties of binocular vision. Oculomotor studies are of accommodation, vergence, and yoked versional eye movements. Studies of accommodation investigate its stimulus (contrast increment thresholds and odd-error cues such as …