Centre for Vision Research to host conference on vision research and brain plasticity June 15 to 18

The brain's ability to change or adapt across a person's lifespan is much greater than originally thought and scientists are still discovering just how far that plasticity goes. At the upcoming International Conference on Plastic Vision at York, some 24 researchers from around the world will discuss their latest findings. "We try to touch on […]

Toronto Star covers inaugural 3D film conference led by York researchers

And as the film world continues its rapid transition from traditional 2 D celluloid film to 3 D digital, a weekend conference at the TIFF Bell Lightbox is aimed at boosting the Toronto film community’s chances of capitalizing on the next wave in film – 3-D, wrote the Toronto Star June 9: The [Toronto International […]

NSERC awards York research centres $3.3 million

Programs in vision research and atmospheric chemistry and physics will provide enhanced research and training for graduate students and post-doctoral fellows If you’re working in 3D film or aerospace engineering, what impact do the latest developments in brain and vision research have on your industry’s practices? What if you’re drafting government policy on air quality […]

Professor Katherine Knight's documentary on Wanda Koop to open Reel Artists Film Festival

York visual arts Professor Katherine Knight’s documentary film about influential Winnipeg artist Wanda Koop in some ways mirrors the style found in Koop’s paintings: full of colour and precise, playing with the idea of glancing and observation, and entering into a world where the real and the abstract co-exist. The world premiere of the 52-minute […]

York researchers find clue to achieving more realistic 3D screens

Can 3D images be made to look more realistic? York University vision researchers have discovered how a to keep our eyes on the prize, so to speak. In order to see 3D images properly, our left and right eyes have to view separate images. Because 3D display technology isn’t perfect, there are times when images […]

PhD student Kara Hawkins wins CIHR award to diagnose Alzheimer's early stages

On Saturday, Kara Hawkins stepped forward to receive a $2,500 award recognizing her as the highest-ranking applicant in Canada for a graduate scholarship in the field of aging. She accepted the Canadian Institutes of Health Research Institute of Aging Recognition Prize in Research in Aging at the annual conference of the Canadian Association on Gerontology in […]

Professor Fran Wilkinson discusses research on vision and migraine headaches November 11

York psychology Professor Fran Wilkinson will talk about her visual neuroscience research, including the connection between vision and migraine headaches, tomorrow as part of the Faculty Research Profile Series. “From Cats Eyes to Headaches: Adventures in Neuroscience” will take place Thursday, Nov. 11, from 2 to 3:30pm at 214 Calumet College, Keele campus. RSVP by […]

Professor Jennifer Steeves in Centre for Vision Research finds face blindness sufferers better at recognizing voices

People who can no longer recognize faces compensate with heightened voice recognition abilities, says a York University study, which also finds that our brains may identify people and things on separate neurological planes. The study, recently published in the journal Neuropsychologia looked at a rare disorder called prosopagnosia, in which the ability to visually identify […]

CVR professor and PhD student find video game practice readies brain for challenging tasks

You can read how researchers from the Centre for Vision Research at York University used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to examine the effect of video-game experience on the neural control of increasingly complex visuomotor tasks in young men, in the October issue of Cortex, an Elsevier journal, wrote MediLexicon.com Sept. 27: Lead author and PhD […]

York welcomes Professor Keith Schneider, new researcher in Magnetic Resonance Imaging

University of Missouri professor and brain researcher Keith Schneider will join York University on July 1 as a professor in the Department of Biology in the Faculty of Science & Engineering and as the coordinator of the University’s new Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) brain research facility. The facility will be located in the new Sherman […]