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Indiana University Bloomington
Rowan Candy
Dr. Candy
T. Rowan Candy, MCOptom, PhD
Associate Professor of Optometry
Associate Dean for Research

MCOptom 1990
PhD 1997 (University of California, Berkeley)
Phone: 812-855-9340

Fax: 812-855-7045

Email: rcandy@indiana.edu

Dr. Rowan Candy received her Membership of the British College of Optometrists (1990) after completing her B.Sc. (Hons) in Optometry at the University of Wales, Cardiff (1989). She then practiced optometry for two years. Dr. Candy received her Ph.D. in Vision Science from the University of California, Berkeley (1997) and completed her postdoctoral work at the Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute in San Francisco (1997-2000). She joined the faculty of Indiana University School of Optometry in 2000 as Assistant Professor of Optometry. Dr. Candy has achieved the rank of Associate Professor of Optometry, and she was appointed Associate Dean for Research in 2007. Her research involves studies of normal and abnormal visual development in human infants. She is developing an infant clinic at the School of Optometry where she supervises optometry students as they learn to work with infant patients. Dr. Candy is a fellow of the American Academy of Optometry, and a member of both the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology and the Optical Society of America.


Research
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Publications on Visual Development in Human Infants
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  1. Shute, R., Candy, R., Westall, C., & Woodhouse, J.M. (1990). Success rates in testing monocular acuity and stereopsis in infants and young children. Ophthalmic and Physiological Optics, 10, 133-136.
  2. Candy, T.R., Crowell, J.A., & Banks, M.S. (1998). Optical, receptoral, and retinal constraints on foveal and peripheral vision in the human neonate. Vision Research, 38, 3857-3870.
  3. Candy T.R., & Banks M.S. (1999) Use of an early nonlinearity to measure the optical and receptor resolution of the human neonate.Vision Research, 39,3386-3398.
  4. Brown, R.J., Candy T.R., & Norcia A.M. (1999) Development of rivalry and interocular masking in human infants. Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science, 40, 3324-3333.
  5. Suttle, C. M., Banks M.S., & Candy T.R. (2000) Does a precortical nonlinearity confound VEP acuity measures in human infants? Vision Research, 40, 3665-3675.
  6. Good, W.V., Jan, J.E., Burden, Skoczenski, A.M., & Candy, T.R. (2001) Recent Advances in cortical visual impairment. Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology. Jan;43(1):56-60
  7. Candy, T.R., Skoczenski, A.M., & Norcia A.M. (2001) Normalization models applied to orientation masking in the human infant. The Journal of Neuroscience. Jun 15;21(12):4530-41.
  8. Norcia A.M., Candy, T. R., Pettet, M. W., Vildavski, V. Y., & Tyler, C. W. (2002). Temporal dynamics of the human response to symmetry. Journal of Vision, 2(2), 132-139, http://journalofvision.org/2/2/1/, DOI 10.1167/2.2.1
  9. Hou C, Pettet MW, Sampath V, Candy TR, Norcia AM. Development of the spatial organization and dynamics of lateral interactions in the human visual system. J Neurosci. 2003 Sep 24;23(25):8630-40.
  10. John FM, Bromham NR, Woodhouse JM, Candy TR. Spatial vision deficits in infants and children with down syndrome. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci. 2004 May;45(5):1566-72.
  11. Wang J, Candy TR. Higher order monochromatic aberrations of the human infant eye.Journal of Vision 2005 Jun 23;5(6):543-55.
  12. Blade PJ, Candy TR. Validation of the PowerRefractor for measuring human infant refraction. Optometry & Vision Science 2006 Jun; 83(6):346-53.
  13. Tondel GM, Candy TR. Human infants' accommodation responses to dynamic stimuli. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci. 2007 Feb;48(2):949-56.
  14. Candy TR, Bharadwaj SR. The stability of steady state accommodation in human infants. J Vis. 2007 Aug 17;7(11):4.1-16.
  15. Tondel GM, Candy TR. Accommodation and vergence latencies in human infants. Vision Res. 2008 Feb;48(4):564-76.
  16. Wang J, Candy TR, Teel DF, Jacobs RJ. Longitudinal chromatic aberration of the human infant eye. J Opt Soc Am A Opt Image Sci Vis. 2008 Sep;25(9):2263-70, DOI 10.1364/JOSAA.25.002263.
  17. Bharadwaj SR, Candy TR. Cues for the neural control of retinal defocus and eye alignment during postnatal human development. J Vis. 2008 Dec 22; 8(16):14, 1-16.