ARC Centre of Excellence - Vision Science

Vision is our most powerful sense, and blindness is a severe loss, yet increasingly common as the population ages. This Centre of Excellence will explore three themes: the extraordinary sensitivity and adaptability of vision; how vision forms the basis for behaviour; and why vision fails, especially with age. One major outcome will be fundamental understanding of retinal mechanisms and brain algorithms of vision. A second will be the application of this knowledge to the design of autonomous visually-guided robots (e.g. flying machines). A third outcome will be understanding of the stability and degeneration of the retina and eye, laying the scientific foundation for diagnosis and therapy in a range of age-related blinding diseases.