Gerald Westheimer
Professor of the Graduate School Division of Neurobiology*
*And, Clinical Professor, School of Optometry
Research Interests
The processing of visual information by the human brain is approached by models of neural circuits and brain mechanisms. Of particular interest are interactive and plastic changes associated with the response modifications that occur with attention, active perception and learning. A long-standing research interest is the formation of the optical image on the human retina, how it is influenced by refractive corrections and how changes may be generated by non-traditional optical procedures.
For a summary of Professor Westheimer’s scientific accomplishments and contributions to UC Berkeley, see the video below produced by UCBEA Legacy Project.
Selected Publications
Hilights of a 300-item 80-year Publishing Career
Recent Retinal image quality for multifocal lenses with on- and off-axis annular zones.[ G. Westheimer (2024) Biomed Opt Express. 15: 3670–3680]
Gestalt theory in 20th-century history [G. Westheimer . (2023) J. Vision 23(8): 14. ]
Objective Measures of Retinal Image Degradation due to Refrative Corrections [G.Westheimer (2021) Optometry and Vision Science 98, 654-664]
Focused and defocused retinal images with Bessel and axicon pupil functions [G. Westheimer (2020) J.Optical Society of America A 37, 108-114.]
Scientific Autobiograpjy The Road to Certainty and Back. [G. Westheimer Annual Reviews of Vision Science (2016) 2, 1-15.]
Most Ciited Visual Acuity and Hyperacuity [ G.Westheimer (1975) Invest. Ophthalmol 14, 570-572]
Most Influential Spatial Interaction in the Human Retina during Scotopic Vision [G. Westheimer (1965) J. Physiol, 181, 881-894]
Most Creative Method for measuring Visual Resolution at the Retinal Level [J.Liang, G. Westheimer (1993) J. Optical Society America A 10, 1691-1696]
Most Underappreciated Integration Regions for Visual Hyperacuity [G. Westheimer, S.P. McKee (1977) Vision Research 17, 89-93]
Most Scholarly Kinematics of the Eye [G. Westheimer (1957) J. Optical Society America 47, 967-974]
The First Analysis of Measurements of the Interpupillary Distance [G. Westheimer (1945) Clin. Exp. Optom. 28, 531-533]
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Last Updated 2024-08-28