[visionlist] post-doctoral position in oculomotor adaptation at Berkeley

[Clifton Schor]

Post-doctoral position in oculomotor adaptation to age-related changes in 
accommodation and vergence, Vision Sciences Group, University of California 
at Berkeley

A postdoctoral position has become available in the Schorlab 
<http://schorlab.berkeley.edu/>http://schorlab.berkeley.edu/ at the 
University of California at Berkeley for an NIH sponsored study of 
oculomotor adaptation of the accommodation and vergence systems to 
age-related biomechanical changes of the accommodative system that produce 
presbyopia. The goal is to determine how the accommodative system maintains 
youthful dynamics as the amplitude of accommodation declines with age and 
how the accommodative system might respond to an accommodating intraocular 
lens implant. The project focuses on objective measurement with the SRI 
dual Purkinje eye tracker and mathematical modeling with Simulink of the 
dynamics of accommodation and vergence. (see Vision Research, 2005 45/10, 
1237-1254).  This work is relevant to the emerging technology for 
developing accommodating intraocular lenses.  Experience in psychophysics 
and knowledge of biomechanics and neural control of the oculomotor system 
is desirable.

The research environment is highly interactive with other laboratories in 
the Vision Science Group of UC Berkeley involved in sensory-motor 
interactions 
<http://vision.berkeley.edu/VSP/index.html>http://vision.berkeley.edu/VSP/index.html. 
For more information contact Clifton Schor 
<mailto:Schor at socrates.berkeley.edu>Schor at socrates.berkeley.edu.




Clifton Schor                   Phone: (510) 642-1130           Fax: (510) 
643-5109
University of California                Email: 
schor at socrates.berkeley.edu
School of Optometry             Lab Home 
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