Dr. Candy’s research program is centered around studies of typical and atypical visual development. Her laboratory studies infants and young children with the goal of preventing common disorders such as amblyopia and some forms of strabismus.
Her research involves studies of normal and abnormal visual development in human infants.
The research studies conducted by our group are designed to understand how vision develops in infants and young children.
In our work, we look at the eye movements, focusing responses and EEG of young infants and children to gain a better understanding of the difference between normal and abnormal visual development, particularly in the context of growth of the eye (and its impact on spectacle prescription) and the refinement of synaptic circuitry in the visual parts of the brain (and its impact on visual function). Current questions that we are addressing include issues related to how the visual system achieves clear and single vision during development, how infants are able to detect the contours that define objects, and how well young children are able to use spatial information about objects in their environment.
Subject Area
Areas of expertise:
- Pediatric vision
- Clinical optics-myopia
