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Tuesday 1 January 2013

VERU hosts its third annual Cambridge Cornea and Cataract Symposium

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Tuesday 1 January 2013

European Academy of Optometry and Optics meeting in Dublin

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Tuesday 1 January 2013

Vision and Eye Research Unit hosts research meeting in Cambridge

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Saturday 1 September 2012

Anglia Ruskin to carry out major eye survey in Trinidad and Tobago

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Latest News

Evidence for compression of virtual auditory distance among blind listeners

Thursday 28 March 2013

Blind listeners have been reported to display supra-normal performance for many auditory tasks, including sound localization, pitch discrimination, motion discrimination and echolocation (see Voss et al., 2010, for a review).

Compensatory auditory mechanisms develop following visual deprivation, that extend to the spatial domain and beyond. Occipital regions are recruited to process aud....

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Global data on visual impairment published

Friday 1 February 2013

The results of a ground-breaking global collaboration among 79 ophthalmologists and optometrists, led by Professor Rupert Bourne of our Vision and Eye Research Unit (VERU), was published in a special issue of The Lancet on Thursday 13 December 2012.

Professor Bourne led the Vision Loss Expert Group in a systematic review of all published, and several unpublished, sources of worldwide da....

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