Richard A. Normann, Ph.D.
Professor
Research Interest: Artificial Vision
Richard Normann received the B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees from the University of California, Berkeley, where he used intracellular recording techniques to study rod and cone light- and dark-adaptation. At the National Institute of Health he studied the mechanisms of gain control and signal transmission in the vertebrate retina. In 1979 he moved to the Departments of Bioengineering and Ophthalmology at the University of Utah where his interests broadened and encompassed the encoding of sensory and motor information by neural ensembles in the cerebral cortex and the vertebrate retina, and the conduct of feasibility studies for motor and sensory neuroprostheses. Recent work is focused on the development of a cortically based visual neuroprosthesis for those with profound blindness.