In memoriam: Josh Wallman, PhD, 1943-2012: editorial introducing the special issue of Experimental Eye Research in tribute to Josh Wallman.

This special issue of Experimental Eye Research is dedicated to thememory of JoshWallman, who passed away on Saturday, March 3rd, 2012. He was 68 years old. Josh was well known and respected in the vision and neuroscience communities as a creative and innovative scientist. We have lost a great colleague, and those who knew him well have lost a wonderful collaborator and dear friend. Josh’s science spanned a variety of areas and he left lasting contributions to them all. The articles contained in this special issue represent several of these, and stand as a durable tribute to the significant impact Josh had, not only on the science, but on the investigators engaged in research in these areas. Some of his greatest scientific contributions were on the topics of visual control of eye growth and development of myopia. Accordingly, most of the papers included in this special issue review current topics in emmetropization andmyopia research, areas that have been significantly influenced by Josh’s research and ideas. His interest in eye movement as behavior is represented by a review of recent work by his colleagues that provide insights into mechanisms of adaptation.

• Publication year

  2013

• Venue

  Experimental Eye Research

• Publication date

  2013-09-01

• Fields of study

  Art, Medicine

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1016/j.exer.2013.04.009PMID 23603612
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

• Source metadata

  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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• Eyes in various species can shorten to compensate for myopic defocus.

  2013cited by this paper
• Modification of saccadic gain by reinforcement.

  2011cited by this paper
• The Relevance of Studies in Chicks for Understanding Myopia in Humans

  2010cited by this paper
• Opposite effects of glucagon and insulin on compensation for spectacle lenses in chicks.

  2009influential reference
• Saccade adaptation specific to visual context.

  2009cited by this paper
• Chick eyes compensate for chromatic simulations of hyperopic and myopic defocus: evidence that the eye uses longitudinal chromatic aberration to guide eye-growth.

  2009cited by this paper
• The spatial scale of attention strongly modulates saccade latencies.

  2008cited by this paper
• Cone signals for spectacle-lens compensation: differential responses to short and long wavelengths.

  2008cited by this paper
• Acute effects of dietary retinoic acid on ocular components in the growing chick.

  2006cited by this paper
• In a matter of minutes, the eye can know which way to grow.

  2005cited by this paper
• Spatial deployment of attention influences both saccadic and pursuit tracking.

  2005cited by this paper
• Saccade-related responses of centrifugal neurons projecting to the chicken retina

  2004cited by this paper
• Homeostasis of eye growth and the question of myopia.

  2004influential reference
• Further evidence that chick eyes use the sign of blur in spectacle lens compensation.

  2003cited by this paper
• Potency of myopic defocus in spectacle lens compensation.

  2003cited by this paper
• Severe astigmatic blur does not interfere with spectacle lens compensation.

  2003cited by this paper
• Myopia in the lid-sutured tree shrew ( Tupoia g / is )

  2002cited by this paper
• Temporal constraints on lens compensation in chicks.

  2002cited by this paper
• Gain adaptation of exogenous shifts of visual attention.

  2002cited by this paper
• Choroidal retinoic acid synthesis: a possible mediator between refractive error and compensatory eye growth.

  2000cited by this paper
• Localization of retinoid binding proteins, retinoid receptors, and retinaldehyde dehydrogenase in the chick eye

  1999cited by this paper
• Saccadic gain modification: visual error drives motor adaptation.

  1998cited by this paper
• How Is Emmetropization Controlled? Results of Research on Experimental Myopia

  1998cited by this paper
• Muscarinic acetylcholine receptor antagonists inhibit chick scleral chondrocytes.

  1998cited by this paper
• Visual influences on diurnal rhythms in ocular length and choroidal thickness in chick eyes.

  1998cited by this paper
• Compensation for spectacle lenses involves changes in proteoglycan synthesis in both the sclera and choroid.

  1997cited by this paper
• Growth of the two layers of the chick sclera is modulated reciprocally by visual conditions.

  1997cited by this paper
• Monkey eyes grow into focus

  1995cited by this paper
• Moving the retina: choroidal modulation of refractive state.

  1995cited by this paper
• Choroidal and scleral mechanisms of compensation for spectacle lenses in chicks.

  1995cited by this paper
• Parental history and myopia: taking the long view.

  1994cited by this paper
• Nature and nurture of myopia

  1994cited by this paper
• The regulation of eye growth and refractive state: an experimental study of emmetropization.

  1991cited by this paper
• Evidence that increased scleral growth underlies visual deprivation myopia in chicks.

  1991cited by this paper
• Saccadic oscillations facilitate ocular perfusion from the avian pecten

  1990cited by this paper
• Developing eyes that lack accommodation grow to compensate for imposed defocus

  1990cited by this paper
• Local ocular compensation for imposed local refractive error.

  1990cited by this paper
• Accommodation, refractive error and eye growth in chickens.

  1988cited by this paper
• Developmental aspects of experimental myopia in chicks: susceptibility, recovery and relation to emmetropization.

  1987cited by this paper
• Visual deprivation causes myopia in chicks with optic nerve section.

  1987cited by this paper
• Local retinal regions control local eye growth and myopia.

  1987cited by this paper
• Different visual deprivations produce different ametropias and different eye shapes.

  1987cited by this paper
• Conjugate and disjunctive saccades in two avian species with contrasting oculomotor strategies

  1985cited by this paper
• Avian vestibuloocular reflex: adaptive plasticity and developmental changes.

  1982cited by this paper
• The eyes of young chickens grow toward emmetropia.

  1981cited by this paper
• Extreme myopia produced by modest change in early visual experience.

  1978cited by this paper
• Myopia and eye enlargement after neonatal lid fusion in monkeys

  1977cited by this paper
• Localization of a peripheral target during parametric adjustment of saccadic eye movements

  1968cited by this paper

• Novel method using 3-dimensional segmentation in spectral domain-optical coherence tomography imaging in the chick reveals defocus-induced regional and time-sensitive asymmetries in the choroidal thickness

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