...to the Adaptive Optics Vision Laboratory at the
University Eye Hospital in Bonn, Germany.

We use simultaneous adaptive optics retinal imaging and micro-psychophysics to target and stimulate individual photoreceptor cells of the Human fovea for precise visual function testing.

For more details on our current research projects, continue reading on the Research pages.

News
Welcome!
Impressum
As an introduction to our methods combining adaptive optics scanning laser ophthalmoscopy, AOSLO, and micro-psychophysics, have a look at these book chapters and review articles:
Introduction
Jun 2024:
We detected deep relative scotomas at the site of iRORA lesions. Well done, Julius, Marlene and Leon!
Dez 2024:
Trang-Anh and Jenny's manuscript on the role of FEM for the visual brain is accepted for publication in PNAS. Congratulations!
Oct 2024:
Humans resolve finer details than a single foveal cone diameter, and drift motion optimizes sampling. See video below and read it in eLife
With our techniques, small visible stimuli can be projected on the retina while we can see their exact motion path relative to the photoreceptors. With a high resolution map of the cellular mosaic, such trajectories can be used to compute the spatio-temporal activation pattern for each cone, and relate this to the psychophysical response.
Read on here:
Witten JL, Lukyanova V, Harmening WM (2024) Sub-cone visual resolution by active, adaptive sampling in the human foveola. eLife, VOR: 2024 Oct 29
[doi:10.7554/eLife.98648.3] [PDF] [Supplement] [Data]