Jonathan Winawer

Jonathan Winawer holds a Bachelor of Arts in Classics from Columbia University and a Master of Science in Neurobiology from the City College of New York. He is now a doctoral candidate in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and is a visiting scholar at Stanford University's Department of Psychology. He has done extensive research in the field of experimental myopia, using animal models to study how the developing eye uses visual feedback to grow into focus. Current research at MIT and Stanford relates to a wide range of visual phenomena, including segmentation and lightness perception, synesthesia, and the neural substrates of mental imagery.