NIH R01 · 2024
Remapping the Visual Field to Aid Reading with Central Scotomas
Project Summary Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) typically produces extensive central vision loss, leading to difficulty in reading, navigating, and other critical tasks. Current assistive devices for vision with central scotomas, while promising, are limited in effectiveness. This proposal aims to fill this gap by advancing understanding of remapping, a method that improves the effectiveness of patients’ residual vision by shifting information from inside the central blind spot (scotoma) to intact locations in the visual field. Only a handful of past studies have examined remapping, including just a single study of patients. Our group recently demonstrated the method’s promise,…
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