The open house will be from 3-5 p.m. Friday, May 20. That's an incredible thing. Rochester scientists were among the first to find ways to learn exactly what infants can and cannot see. A scientist can't just prop an infant in a high-chair, show him or her an eye chart, and ask him or her to nod or coo at letters that may or may not be visible. Rochester scientists have bypassed the difficulty to learn about infants' visual abilities.
Scientists hope to be able to see individual cones and rods.
The Rochester group has long been a leader in this area and was the first to map out how rods and cones are arranged in the living eye. When the person wearing the glasses tries to catch a ball, he or she initially misses each throw, but over the course of a few minutes begins to compensate and catch it successfully. CVS scientists have set up a virtual reality laboratory to study the way the human brain takes in and processes information. The helmet projects images of a city, and the car is equipped with a steering wheel and gas and brake pedals. An eye-tracking device inside the helmet monitors the driver's eye movements.