Welcome to The Laboratory for Visual Neuroplasticity at Massachusetts Eye & Ear and Schepens Eye Research Institute, in affiliation with Harvard Medical School. Our group focuses on the development of assistive technology for the visually impaired and uses a combination of behavioral and neuroimaging techniques to study changes that occur in the brain as a result of ocular and cerebral causes of blindness.
Recent Publications
- Rethinking Visual Impairment
- Early Blindness is Associated with Increased Volume of the Uncinate Fasciculus
- Blindness and social trust: The effect of early visual deprivation on judgments of trustworthiness
- Development of the Visual Word Form Area Requires Visual Experience: Evidence from Blind Braille Readers
- The ego-moving metaphor of time relies on visual experience: No representation of time along the sagittal space in the blind
- Disentangling How the Brain is "Wired" in Cortical (Cerebral) Visual Impairment
Latest News
- Christopher Bennett, Ph.D., Awarded Research Grant from Knights Templar Eye Foundation
- Blindness of the Brain: Explaining CVI
- Schepens Eye Research Institute of Mass. Eye and Ear Postdoctoral Training Program awards 2017 Best Scientific Papers by trainees
- Neuroplasticity in blindness: what it tells us about the mechanisms of blindness
- In Touch: Sitarist Baluji Shrivastav OBE and Corinna Bauer, Harvard research
- Third Annual CVI Symposium: CVI Best Practices and Current Research presented by experts in CVI
- Brain 'Rewires' to Work Around Early Blindness
- Virtual Reality For Better Vision
- Power Boost
- The Brains of Blind People Really Are Wired to Enhance Other Senses