OMLAB

The underlying research philosophy resulting from this unique synergy of medical and engineering science was that the goal of understanding ocular motor function could best be elucidated through a control systems approach guided by neurophysiological knowledge. Where the latter was lacking, reasonable functional hypotheses would be used in computer models of the various subsystems under study. A key advantage of this approach was the ability to study ocular motor dysfunction (i.e., "experiments of nature") in order to elucidate not only the mechanism of each dysfunction but also how the normal ocular motor system functions and uses its various subsystems to overcome each type of dysfunction. This combining of the "normal" and the "abnormal" along with the "basic" and the "clinical" has proved to be a powerful approach and has demonstrated that these artificial distinctions were an impediment to ocular motor research. By design, OMLAB research has been conducted with the dual aims of..

Primary location: Cleveland United States