Bosco Tjan
Associate Professor of Psychology
College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
It sounds so simple: the eye sees something and it's registered in the brain. But the complicated series of events that takes place in the brain when it receives information from the retina and sends it to the visual processing area of the cortex is awe-inspiring, according to vision researcher Bosco Tjan.
Tjan applies a combination of computational analysis, human psychophysics and neural imaging to study the brain mechanisms involved in vision and reading. "If we can understand what happens in the mind's eye when we see what's around us, we can understand the whole brain," he says.
His research holds the promise of new insights into the brain's processing abilities and possible treatments for the visually impaired.