Michael Pianta

Crowdsourcing critical appraisal of research evidence (CrowdCARE) was found to be a valid approach to assessing clinical research quality

Michael J Pianta, Eve Makrai, Karin M Verspoor, Trevor A Cohn, Laura E Downie

Journal article  |  2018  |  JOURNAL OF CLINICAL EPIDEMIOLOGY

OBJECTIVES: We developed a free, online tool (CrowdCARE: crowdcare.unimelb.edu.au) to crowdsource research critical appraisal. The..

Appraising the Quality of Systematic Reviews for Age-Related Macular Degeneration Interventions A Systematic Review

Laura E Downie, Eve Makrai, Yokim Bonggotgetsakul, Lucy J Dirito, Kresimir Kristo, Minh-An N Pham, Mina You, Karin Verspoor, Michael J Pianta

Journal article  |  2018  |  JAMA OPHTHALMOLOGY

Importance: Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is a leading cause of vision impairment. It is imperative that AMD care is time..

27 Transforming evidence-based practice with crowdcare: crowdsourcing critical appraisal of research evidence

Laura Downie, Michael Pianta

Journal article  |  2018  |  Oral Sessions

Spatio-temporal patterns of event-related potentials related to audiovisual synchrony judgments in older adults

Yu Man Chan, Michael Julian Pianta, Stefan Bode, Allison Maree McKendrick

Journal article  |  2017  |  NEUROBIOLOGY OF AGING

Older adults have altered perception of the relative timing between auditory and visual stimuli, even when stimuli are scaled to e..

Older age results in difficulties separating auditory and visual signals in time.

Yu Man Chan, Michael J Pianta, Allison M McKendrick

Journal article  |  2014  |  J Vis

Previous research provides conflicting evidence regarding whether older adults have altered tolerance to timing differences betwee..

Reduced audiovisual recalibration in the elderly

Yu Man Chan, Michael J Pianta, Allison M McKendrick

Journal article  |  2014  |  FRONTIERS IN AGING NEUROSCIENCE

Perceived synchrony of visual and auditory signals can be altered by exposure to a stream of temporally offset stimulus pairs. Pre..

Older age results in difficulties separating auditory and visual signals in time

Yu Man Chan, Michael J Pianta, Allison M McKendrick

Journal article  |  2014  |  JOURNAL OF VISION

Previous research provides conflicting evidence regarding whether older adults have altered tolerance to timing differences betwee..

The dependence of crowding on flanker complexity and target-flanker similarity.

Jean-Baptiste Bernard, Susana TL Chung

Journal article  |  2011  |  J Vis

We examined the effects of the spatial complexity of flankers and target-flanker similarity on the performance of identifying crow..

Retinal thinning in tree shrews with induced high myopia: Optical coherence tomography and histological assessment

Carla J Abbott, Ulrike Gruenert, Michael J Pianta, Neville A McBrien

Journal article  |  2011  |  VISION RESEARCH

This study determined retinal thinning in a mammalian model of high myopia using optical coherence tomography (OCT) and histologic..

Human scotopic dark adaptation: Comparison of recoveries of psychophysical threshold and ERG b-wave sensitivity

Rasa Ruseckaite, Trevor D Lamb, Michael J Pianta, Allison M Cameron

Journal article  |  2011  |  JOURNAL OF VISION

We have compared the time course of dark adaptation of the human scotopic visual system, measured psychophysically and from the b-..