Ione Fine, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Degree From: University of Rochester
Interests: The effects of long-term visual deprivation Adult perceptual learning and plasticity. Retinal prostheses Psychophysics, fMRI and computational vision.

Contact

Office Guthrie 233
Phone (206) 685-6157
E-mail ionefine@uw.edu
Website http://depts.washington.edu/viscog/

Advising

Do I accept and train new psychology graduate students in general?
Yes
Am I accepting new graduate students in the upcoming year?
Yes 2009-2010
Cognition and Perception
Quantitative Psychology

Research

My laboratory studies the computational and neurophysiological basis of visual processing, using a wide range of computational and experimental techniques, including functional magnetic resonance imaging, patient studies, psychophysics and computational modeling. Much of my work focuses on plasticity in the visual system, including studies on perceptual learning in adulthood and the neural reorganization that occurs as a result of being blind or deaf. For more information go to www.finelab.org.

Research Publications

  • Horsager, A., Greenwald, S.,Weiland, J.D., Humayun, M.S., Greenberg, R.J., McMahon, M., Boynton, G.M., Fine, I. Predicting visual sensitivity in retinal prosthesis patients. IOVS 2009 Apr;50(4):1483-91
  • Saenz, M., Lewis, L.B., Huth, A.G., Fine, I., Koch, C. (2008) Visual Motion Area MT+/V5 Responds to Auditory Motion in Human Sight-Recovery Subjects. J. Neuroscience; 28(20) 5141-8
  • deBalthasar C., Roy, A., Freda, R., Greenwald, S. Horsager, A., Mahadevappa, M., Yanai, D., McMahon, M., Humayun, M.S., Greenberg, R.J., Weiland, J.D., Fine, I. (2008) Factors affecting perceptual thresholds in epiretinal prostheses. IOVS; 49:2303-2314.
  • Ng M. Boynton, G.M., Fine, I. (2007) Face adaptation does not improve performance on search or discrimination tasks. JOV; 4;8(1):1.1-20
  • Ng, M., Ciaramitaro, V., Boynton, G.M. and Fine, I. (2006) Selectivity for the configural cues that identify gender, ethnicity and identity in human cortex. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 105:51, 19552-7
  • Fine, I., Finney, E.M., Boynton, G.M. & Dobkins, K.R. Neural plasticity after auditory deprivation within auditory and visual cortex Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. 17(10) 1621-1637