Biography

Dr. Meier earned a BA at Simon Fraser University studying how eye movement patterns are optimized during and after learning. At the University of British Columbia she obtained a PhD in Cognitive Psychology studying the typical development of motion perception in children, and how this can be impacted by amblyopia ("lazy" eye) or strabismus (an eye turn). Her current work as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Washington investigates how the visual system combines signals across the left and right eyes under different conditions, and how these perceptual patterns are related to visual development and disorder. Overall, her work aims to understand how the visual parts of the brain typically develop, how this development is impacted when a person has prolonged atypical visual experience during childhood, and how perceptual abilities change as a function of treatment success. Her research tools include psychophysics, EEG, MRI, and eye-tracking. We are pleased to have Dr. Meier join the Department of Vision Sciences as an Assistant Professor.