NEW from Alex Levin: What does a negative genetic test mean? Published in the Oman Journal of Ophthalmology. #URochesterResearch doi.org/10.4103/ojo.... @flaumeye.bsky.social

New paper from Ed Lalor in EJN: Quantifying the Influence of Lexical Surprisal on Acoustic Speech Encoding While Controlling for Within-Speaker Variability. #URochesterResearch doi.org/10.1111/ejn.... @uofrbme.bsky.social

Quantifying the Influence of Lexical Surprisal on Acoustic Speech Encoding While Controlling for Within‐Speaker Variability

Linguistic context has been shown to influence the fidelity of acoustic speech tracking, but it remains unclear whether this reflects listener-driven processing or differences in speaker…

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Great turnout for this year's CVS Picnic in Genesee Valley Park! Thanks to everyone who attended and special thanks to the admin team for putting together the event.

#cvstoday July 31 at 12:00 pm CVS Picnic: Riverbend Shelter, Genesee Valley Park www.monroecounty.gov/files/parks/...

OUT NOW from Rick Libby in Mammalian Genome: Neuroinflammation in glaucoma: a myriad of cellular pathways and players. #URochesterResearch @flaumeye.bsky.social

Neuroinflammation in glaucoma: a myriad of cellular pathways and players - Mammalian Genome

Glaucoma is a complex neurodegenerative disease with multiple subtypes, yet all are characterized by the progressive dysfunction and loss of retinal ganglion cells (RGCs), which ultimately results in…

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OUT NOW from CVS members Yue Guzhang & Martina Poletti: Frequency-dependent modulation of foveal contrast sensitivity by fine-scale exogenously triggered attention, published in eLife. doi.org/10.7554/eLif... #URochesterResearch @aplabur.bsky.social @hlplab.bsky.social

Frequency-dependent modulation of foveal contrast sensitivity by fine-scale exogenously triggered attention

Fine-scale exogenous attention within the foveola selectively enhances contrast gain at low-to-mid spatial frequencies while increasing response gain across a broad spatial frequency range.

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TODAY is the abstract submission deadline for the Optica Fall Vision Meeting, as well as the early-registration deadline. Fees increase on July 25. www.osafallvisionmeeting.org/home @optica-fvm.bsky.social

#cvstoday July 23, 2026 2:00 pm, URMC 1-9576 Ryan Case Method Room Research Talks: Daniel Savage, URMC & Marcello Maniglia, RIT www.cvs.rochester.edu/events/index...

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July 23, 2026 2:00 pm, URMC 1-9576 Ryan Case Method Room

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CVS members: Friday is the last day to RSVP for the CVS Picnic on July 31! forms.gle/qicb39ZKjXYq...

Only a few days left to submit your abstract for the Optica Fall Vision Meeting, held Sept 24-27 in Rochester! www.osafallvisionmeeting.org/2026-meeting... @optica-fvm.bsky.social

NEW from @drsmsilverstein.bsky.social in Schizophrenia Bulletin Open: Psychosis Risk is Associated with Increased Multimodal Reports of Socially Salient Content in Degraded Stimuli. #URochesterResearch doi.org/10.1093/schi...

Psychosis Risk is Associated with Increased Multimodal Reports of Socially Salient Content in Degraded Stimuli

AbstractBackground and Hypothesis. Humans are capable of detecting faces and speech in noisy environments. While such detection is generally adaptive, we h

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1of2) New research shows that people with schizophrenia or high psychosis-like experiences reported more visual distortions, but these were not linked to low-level visual impairments suggesting that higher-order brain processing may be responsible.

Contrast sensitivity and subjective visual disturbances across the psychosis continuum

Subjective visual disturbances and objective visual deficits are common across the psychosis spectrum. Few investigations have tested them in the same sample to ask whether subjective disturbances ...

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1of2) CVS adjunct faculty member Richard Lange has been awarded a NSF Grant (along with co-PI Alex Ororbia) to study brain-inspired architectures for visual representation learning.

The abstract submission deadline has been extended to July 24. Submit your abstract online: www.osafallvisionmeeting.org/2026-meeting... @optica-fvm.bsky.social

New pub from Raja Narayanan: Accuracy of Retinal Pigment Epithelium (RPE) undulations (Oscillatory sign) as an optical coherence tomography biomarker of acute RPE tears. doi.org/10.1186/s409... #URochesterResearch @flaumeye.bsky.social

Accuracy of Retinal Pigment Epithelium (RPE) undulations (Oscillatory sign) as an optical coherence tomography biomarker of acute RPE tears - International Journal of Retina and Vitreous

Purpose To evaluate the sensitivity and specificity of Retinal Pigment Epithelium (RPE) undulations (Oscillatory sign) on Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) and assess its potential role as a…

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⏳ Last chance! The abstract submission deadline for #OpticaFVM 2026 is almost here. 📅 Submit by July 15, 2026 if you'd like to present your latest work in vision science. 🔗 www.osafallvisionmeeting.org #VisionResearch @cvsuor.bsky.social @optica.org 👁️🧠🧪

OUT NOW from Sara Patterson in Brain Sciences: Synaptic Inputs to OFF Parasol Ganglion Cells in Macaque Retina: An Analysis Using Serial Blockface Scanning Electron Microscopy. doi.org/10.3390/brai... #URochesterResearch @flaumeye.bsky.social

UR researchers—including BCS Professors Michele Rucci & Duje Tadin, and Director of the Center for Extended Reality Barry Silverstein—are studying the process of human vision from three connected angles. Watch Now: youtu.be/zbkIN4nAHkA?... #URochesterResearch @aplabur.bsky.social @cvsuor.bsky.social

NEW from @drsmsilverstein.bsky.social Utility of zoom-based clinical interviews for automated facial emotion analysis, in Schizophrenia Research. #URochesterResearch doi.org/10.1016/j.sc...

Just one week left to submit your abstract for the Optica Fall Vision Meeting! www.osafallvisionmeeting.org/2026-meeting... @optica-fvm.bsky.social

OUT NOW from Ania Majewska: Disrupted maternal care alters neural-microglia interactions in the primate paralaminar (PL) nucleus of the amygdala. doi.org/10.1523/jneu... #URochesterResearch @urneuroscience.bsky.social

Disrupted maternal care alters neural-microglia interactions in the primate paralaminar (PL) nucleus of the amygdala

Prolonged postnatal maturation of the primate amygdala is thought to be driven, at least partially, by continued neural maturation within the paralaminar nucleus (PL). At birth, the PL is densely…

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1of2) Karl Gegenfurtner has been selected as the 2026 Boynton Award recipient and will give the Boynton Lecture at this year's Optica Fall Vision Meeting. www.osafallvisionmeeting.org/news @optica-fvm.bsky.social

Optica Fall Vision Meeting - News

07/06/2026 Karl Gegenfurtner receives 2026 Boynton Award The Optica Fall Vision Meeting Planning Committee is delighted to announce that Karl Gegenfurtner has been selected as the 2026 Boynton Award r...

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OUT NOW from Duje Tadin: Dissociating mechanisms of spatial suppression and summation in human visual cortical regions MT/V5: a transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) study and clinical implications, in International Review of Psychiatry. doi.org/10.1080/0954... #URochesterResearch

Dissociating mechanisms of spatial suppression and summation in human visual cortical regions MT/V5: a transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) study and clinical implications

Visual motion perception requires balancing spatial integration, which supports discrimination of weak or noisy signals, with spatial suppression, which limits the influence of large, high-contrast...

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CVS members: Don't forget to RSVP for this year's Picnic on July 31! forms.gle/qicb39ZKjXYq...

OUT NOW from Zhen Chen & @neurocircuitlab.bsky.social in eLife: Adult-neurogenesis allows for representational stability and flexibility in early olfactory system. #URochesterResearch doi.org/10.7554/elif... @urneuroscience.bsky.social

Adult-neurogenesis allows for representational stability and flexibility in early olfactory system

Using computational and theoretical models shows how adult-neurogenesis and spike-timing-dependent plasticity balance the flexibility and stability of odor representations.

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New paper from Raja Narayanan in Retinal Cases & Brief Reports: Large and medium choroidal vessel remodelling in progressive age-related macular degeneration and polypoidal choroidal vasculopathy. #URochesterResearch doi.org/10.1097/ICB.... @flaumeye.bsky.social

🎉 Congrats to Zhengyang (Eliot) Xu, who won the 2026 Fall Vision Meeting logo contest! Thanks to everyone who entered--we had some great submissions this year. The abstract submission deadline is July 15, so don't delay: www.osafallvisionmeeting.org/2026-meeting...

Register and submit your abstract TODAY for the Optica Fall Vision Meeting! Session details can be found at www.osafallvisionmeeting.org/2026-meeting... @optica-fvm.bsky.social

Optica Fall Vision Meeting - Program

OPTICA FALL VISION MEETING September 24-27, 2026 Hosted by the Center for Visual Science at the University of Rochester

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#cvstoday June 25-27, Class of 62 Auditorium, URMC Department of Psychiatry Consortium for Vision and Oculomics in Psychiatry Third Annual Meeting www.cvop.org/2026-annual-...

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June 17, 2026 11:00 am, Kresge Room, 269 Meliora Hall & Zoom

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NEW from Fei Shang, Kosha Dholakia, & @schalleklab.bsky.social One year of hyperglycemia in the Ins2Akita mouse does not impart changes in retinal vascular patterning, published in PLOS One. doi.org/10.1371/jour... #URochesterResearch @flaumeye.bsky.social

One year of hyperglycemia in the Ins2Akita mouse does not impart changes in retinal vascular patterning

Diabetic retinopathy (DR) is one of the leading causes of blindness often associated with retinal vascular pathology in humans. To aid our understanding of DR, the Ins2Akita mouse has served as a…

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