Robert Hess, PhD

Primary Axis: 
Neurosciences
Research Focus: 

Investigations focus on the neural basis of visual processing in normal humans and its dysfunction in humans with the developmental deficit, ambylopia (incidence 3%).Visual processing, Clinical vision, Amblyopia, Visual development, Visual cortex

Keywords: 
Visual processing, Clinical vision, Amblyopia, Visual development, Visual cortex
Location: 
Royal Victoria Hospital
Publications:
Simmers AJ, Ledgeway T, Hess RF, McGraw PV. Deficits to global motion processing in human amblyopia. Vision Research 2003; 43: 729-738.
Dumoulin SO, Baker Jr CL, Hess RF, Evans AC. Cortical specialization for processing first-and second-order motion. Cerebral Cortex 2003; 13: 1327-1385.
Barnes GR, Hess RF, Dumoulin SO, Achtman RL, Pike GB. The cortical deficit in humans with strabismus amblyopia. Journal of Physiology 2001; 533: 281-297.