Visual Development
"Where have we got to in understanding development of the visual brain in infants and children?" A festschrift to mark the retirement of Professor Alistair Fielder took place during the Child Vision Research Society meeting in June this year. As one of the invited speakers, Professor Janette Atkinson took the opportunity to take us back 30 years to when research into infant vision really took off. Visit our website to listen to Professor Atkinson's 60 minute exploration of infant vision testing techniques and her group's novel research outcomes.

"The linear and rotational vestibulo-ocular reflexes in patients with parkinsonian and cerebellar disorders"
- Professor R. John Leigh

"Eye movements and actions: knowing where to look"
- Professor Michael Land

"Eye movements and Visual Perception"
- Professor Richard Abadi

12th Applied Vision Association Christmas Meeting
17th December 2007
Aston University, Birmingham, UK

"Colours, Faces, and Mrs. Thatcher's Bikini"
Professor Stuart Anstis
Psychology Department, University of California, San Diego

The perfect way to bring our 2007 programme to an end! We can't wait to find out what Professor Anstis has planned for this talk.

The Colour Group (Great Britain)
Annual Vision Meeting & Palmer Lecture
9th January 2008
Institute of Ophthalmology, London, UK

"Calibrating Colour Vision"
Professor Michael Webster
Psychology Department, University of Nevada, Reno

We are pleased that Professor Webster has agreed to come to London in January to give this year's CRS sponsored lecture at the Colour Group's annual Vision Meeting.

Vision Sciences Society
Annual Meeting
9th to 14th May 2008
Naples Grande Hotel, Naples, Florida, USA

"Unravelling fine-scale and cell-type specificity of visual cortical circuits"
Professor Edward Callaway
Systems Neurobiology Laboratories, Salk Institute

Once again, CRS is extremely proud to have the opportunity to support the VSS Keynote. We hope to see many of you in sunny Florida next year.

Best Visual Illusion of the Year© Contest 2008
11th May 2008
Philharmonic Center for the Arts, Naples, Florida, USA

Variantor Glasses
CRS bring you an effortless way to explore colour combinations that are problematic for people with colour vision deficiencies. By wearing the Variantor glasses you can instantly see the world through the eyes of a dichromat. They are perfect for investigating aspects of Colour Universal Design in printed documents, product development and education.

Variantor Glasses contain a unique spectral filter which was developed jointly by Professor Shigeki Nakauchi (Toyohashi University of Technology), Professor Keizo Shinomori (Kochi University of Technology) and the Itoh Optical Industrial Company of Japan. A technical discussion of the filter was presented at the 2006 ECVP conference in St. Petersburg, Russia and a PDF version of the poster is available on our website.

Elderly Vision Simulation Glasses
As we age, the crystalline lens in our eyes becomes yellow and absorbs blue light, changing the way we perceive colour. More than just yellow tinted, these glasses use a completely new type of filtered lens that simulates the progressive changes to vision over time. This is based on The Two Factor Model, developed by Dr Katsunori Okajima of Yokohama National University.

Product Newsflash from CRS

Coming soon-
Support for the CRS Video Eyetracker Toolbox family in NBS Presentation®

Already available-
Integrated, native support for CRS Bits++ in Psychtoolbox v3

To enquire about these products, or any of our other tools for vision science, click through to our website.

Other Vision News from CRS

Visual Illusion Exhibition Comes to Reno!
A new permanent exhibit on visual illusions is opening at the Fleischmann Planetarium and Science Museum at the University of Nevada, Reno. The exhibit was funded by a grant from the Optical Society of America Foundation and was formally opened on 7th December 2007 with a lecture by Professor Stuart Anstis entitled "Illusions are not what they seem." Find out all about the exhibition by clicking through to our website!