NIH R01 · 2025
The preferred retinal locus in central vision loss
PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT People who lose their central vision due to macular disease such as age-related macular degeneration (AMD) must use their residual peripheral vision for visual tasks. Following the onset of central vision loss, most patients eventually adopt an eccentric retinal location outside the affected macular area, the preferred retinal locus (PRL), as their new reference locus for visual tasks. Little is known as to how and why a location eventually evolves into the PRL. In this project, we are going to tackle the what, where, why, how, who and when of the PRL development. The long-term goals of this project are to understand the mechanism(s) underlying the development of…
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