News and Upcoming Events:

CVS Undergraduate Fellowship Program: June 4-August 3, 2012.

The 28th CVS Symposium, "Computational Foundations of Perception and Action," will be held June 1-3, 2012. Register online.

The OSA Vision Meeting will be held September 14-16, 2012. Registration and Abstract submission are now available.

Meetings and Talks

  • 05/21 CVS Boynton Colloquium: James Jester, University of California, Irvine
    High Resolution Macroscopy (HR-Mac): probing ocular structure and tissue function through non-linear optical imaging and digital immunofluorescence tomography
  • 05/29 CVS Research Talk: Albert Compte, IDIBAPS, Spain
    Evidence of continuous attractors in prefrontal cortex in spatial working memory

Welcome to the Center for Visual Science (CVS) at the University of Rochester. CVS was founded in 1963 by Robert M. Boynton to bring together scientists from a variety of disciplines with the common goal of pursuing excellence in vision research. CVS consists of more than 25 research laboratories that include faculty from the departments of:

These laboratories represent a diverse range of studies that span the development of the visual system to the interaction between visual perception and memory. Our investigators employ an equally diverse set of approaches, from molecular genetics and cellular biology to neurophysiology and psychophysics. We invite you to learn more about the laboratories, people and facilities that make CVS a vibrant and exciting scientific community. The Center for Visual Science is affiliated with a number of collaborative research efforts both within and outside the university. These include: