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Vision researchers

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N. Justin Marshall

N. Justin Marshall, or Justin Marshall, is an Australian visual ecologist at the Queensland Brain Institute who discovered the mantis shrimp's exceptionally complex color vision system.

Patrick Cavanagh

Patrick Cavanagh (born 1947) is a Canadian vision scientist known for research on visual perception, attention, and motion, with professorships at Harvard, Dartmouth, and the Université de Montréal.

Peter H. Schiller

Peter H. Schiller (1931–2023) was an American visual neuroscientist who spent his career at MIT, establishing the roles of the ON and OFF channels of vision.

Peter Sterling (neuroscientist)

Peter Sterling (born 1940) is an American neuroscientist, professor at the University of Pennsylvania, who pioneered 3D electron-microscopic reconstruction of retinal circuits and developed allostasis.

Preete Verghese

Preeti Verghese is an American vision scientist who is Chief Scientific Officer at the Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute, known for a signal detection theory of visual search.

Ragnar Granit

Ragnar Granit was a Finnish-born Swedish physiologist who won the 1967 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discoveries about the eye's visual processes, especially retinal responses.

Randolph Blake

Randolph Blake is an American cognitive neuroscientist known for his work on binocular rivalry and visual perception, and Centennial Professor Emeritus of Psychology at Vanderbilt University.

Richard H. Masland

Richard H. Masland (1942–2019) was an American retinal neuroscientist at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, known for counting retinal cell types and starburst amacrine cells.

Richard J. Krauzlis

Richard J. Krauzlis, also published as R. J. Krauzlis, is an American vision neuroscientist who leads the Visual Circuits Section at the National Eye Institute in Bethesda, Maryland.

Robert H. Wurtz

Robert H. Wurtz (born 1936) is an American visual neuroscientist and NIH distinguished investigator emeritus, known for recording single neurons in awake, behaving monkeys and for discovering a corollary discharge circuit.

Robert Shapley

Robert M. Shapley is an American visual neurophysiologist at New York University known for work on retinal gain control and orientation tuning in visual cortex.

Sheila Nirenberg

Sheila Nirenberg is an American neuroscientist and Weill Cornell professor who deciphered the retina's output code and applied it to an optogenetic gene therapy for restoring vision in retinal disease.

Thomas D. Albright

Thomas D. Albright is an American neuroscientist at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, California, known for research on the neural basis of visual perception and memory.

Tirin Moore

Tirin Moore is an American visual neuroscientist at Stanford University, known for showing that visual attention is causally linked to the brain mechanisms controlling gaze.

Tom Baden

Tom Baden (Thomas Baden) is a British-based neuroscientist, Professor of Neuroscience at the University of Sussex, known for work on the functional diversity of the mouse retina.

Torsten Wiesel

Torsten Nils Wiesel is a Swedish-born neuroscientist who shared the 1981 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with David Hubel for discoveries about processing in the visual system.

Wilson S. Geisler

Wilson S. Geisler, known as Bill Geisler, is a vision scientist at the University of Texas at Austin known for ideal observer theory and natural scene statistics.