Ione Fine

Fine received her BS in Philosophy, Physiology, and Psychology from Merton College, Oxford in 1993. She received an M.A. in 1996 from the University of Rochester, and then earned her Ph.D. in 1999 from the Center for Vision Science within the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at the University of Rochester.{{Cite web |date=September 2024 |title=CV for Ione Fine at the University of Washington Department of Psychology |url=http://faculty.washington.edu/ionefine/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/CV_Fine_2024.pdf |access-date=2024-12-17 |website=psych.uw.edu |language=en}} Fine then pursued post-doctoral work with Professors Donald MacLeod and Karen Dobkins at the University of California, San Diego.{{Cite journal |last=Fine |first=Ione |date=August 2016 |title=Ione Fine |url=https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2016.06.040 |journal=Current Biology |volume=26 |issue=16 |pages=R745–R746 |bibcode=2016CBio...26.R745F |doi=10.1016/j.cub.2016.06.040 |issn=0960-9822}}

Between 2004-2007, she held a joint appointment at Second Sight Medical Products LLC and the Doheny Eye Institute and Zilkha Neurogenetic Institute at USC. In 2007, she moved to the Department of Psychology at the University of Washington, where she was promoted to full professor in 2014.

Fine's research focuses on the perceptual, neural, and cognitive mechanisms underlying adaptation to sensory loss, including deafness and blindness.{{Cite journal |last1=Fine |first1=Ione |last2=Wade |first2=Alex R. |last3=Brewer |first3=Alyssa A. |last4=May |first4=Michael G. |last5=Goodman |first5=Daniel F. |last6=Boynton |first6=Geoffrey M. |last7=Wandell |first7=Brian A. |last8=MacLeod |first8=Donald I. A. |date=September 2003 |title=Long-term deprivation affects visual perception and cortex |url=https://www.nature.com/articles/nn1102 |journal=Nature Neuroscience |language=en |volume=6 |issue=9 |pages=915–916 |doi=10.1038/nn1102 |issn=1546-1726 |pmid=12937420|url-access=subscription }}{{Cite journal |last1=Huber |first1=Elizabeth |last2=Jiang |first2=Fang |last3=Fine |first3=Ione |date=2019-05-14 |title=Responses in area hMT+ reflect tuning for both auditory frequency and motion after blindness early in life |journal=Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences |language=en |volume=116 |issue=20 |pages=10081–10086 |bibcode=2019PNAS..11610081H |doi=10.1073/pnas.1815376116 |issn=0027-8424 |pmc=6525543 |pmid=31036666 |doi-access=free}} She has also worked on the development of computational models for new technologies for sight recovery, such as 'bionic eyes'.{{Cite journal |last1=Beyeler |first1=Michael |last2=Nanduri |first2=Devyani |last3=Weiland |first3=James D. |last4=Rokem |first4=Ariel |last5=Boynton |first5=Geoffrey M. |last6=Fine |first6=Ione |date=2019-06-24 |title=A model of ganglion axon pathways accounts for percepts elicited by retinal implants |journal=Scientific Reports |language=en |volume=9 |issue=1 |pages=9199 |bibcode=2019NatSR...9.9199B |doi=10.1038/s41598-019-45416-4 |issn=2045-2322 |pmc=6591412 |pmid=31235711}}{{Cite journal |last1=Fine |first1=Ione |last2=Cepko |first2=Connie L. |last3=Landy |first3=Michael S. |date=2015-06-01 |title=Vision research special issue: Sight restoration: Prosthetics, optogenetics and gene therapy |url=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0042698915001625 |journal=Vision Research |volume=111 |issue=Pt B |pages=115–123 |doi=10.1016/j.visres.2015.04.012 |issn=0042-6989 |pmid=25937376|url-access=subscription }}{{Cite journal |last1=Fine |first1=Ione |last2=Boynton |first2=Geoffrey M. |date=2015-09-19 |title=Pulse trains to percepts: the challenge of creating a perceptually intelligible world with sight recovery technologies |journal=Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences |language=en |volume=370 |issue=1677 |pages=20140208 |doi=10.1098/rstb.2014.0208 |issn=0962-8436 |pmc=4528820 |pmid=26240423}} Fine's research has examined how people who regain their sight interpret visual cues.{{Cite news |date=2003-08-25 |title=A new look on life |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-news-and-advance-a-new-look-on-life/161053921/ |access-date=2024-12-17 |work=The News and Advance |pages=2}}

Fine has also advocated for better inclusion of female scientists in high-profile journals.{{Citation |last1=Shen |first1=Yiqin Alicia |title=Persistent Underrepresentation of Women's Science in High Profile Journals |date=2018-03-08 |url=https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/275362v2 |access-date=2024-06-26 |language=en |doi=10.1101/275362 |last2=Webster |first2=Jason M. |last3=Shoda |first3=Yuichi |last4=Fine |first4=Ione}}

• {{Cite journal |last1=Finney |first1=Eva M. |last2=Fine |first2=Ione |last3=Dobkins |first3=Karen R. |date=2001 |title=Visual stimuli activate auditory cortex in the deaf |url=https://www.nature.com/articles/nn763 |journal=Nature Neuroscience |language=en |volume=4 |issue=12 |pages=1171–1173 |doi=10.1038/nn763 |pmid=11704763 |issn=1097-6256|url-access=subscription }}
• {{Cite journal |last1=Fine |first1=I. |last2=Jacobs |first2=R. A. |date=2002-04-01 |title=Comparing perceptual learning across tasks: A review |journal=Journal of Vision |language=en |volume=2 |issue=2 |pages=190–203 |doi=10.1167/2.2.5 |issn=1534-7362|doi-access=free |pmid=12678592 }}
• {{Cite journal |last1=Fine |first1=Ione |last2=Wade |first2=Alex R |last3=Brewer |first3=Alyssa A |last4=May |first4=Michael G |last5=Goodman |first5=Daniel F |last6=Boynton |first6=Geoffrey M |last7=Wandell |first7=Brian A |last8=MacLeod |first8=Donald I A |date=2003 |title=Long-term deprivation affects visual perception and cortex |url=https://www.nature.com/articles/nn1102 |journal=Nature Neuroscience |language=en |volume=6 |issue=9 |pages=915–916 |doi=10.1038/nn1102 |pmid=12937420 |issn=1097-6256|url-access=subscription }}
• {{Cite journal |last1=Fine |first1=Ione |last2=Finney |first2=Eva M. |last3=Boynton |first3=Geoffrey M. |last4=Dobkins |first4=Karen R. |date=2005-10-01 |title=Comparing the Effects of Auditory Deprivation and Sign Language within the Auditory and Visual Cortex |url=https://direct.mit.edu/jocn/article-abstract/17/10/1621/4063/Comparing-the-Effects-of-Auditory-Deprivation-and?redirectedFrom=fulltext |journal=Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience |volume=17 |issue=10 |pages=1621–1637 |doi=10.1162/089892905774597173 |pmid=16269101 |issn=0898-929X|url-access=subscription }}

In 2010, she was elected fellow of the Optical Society of America in recognition of her service and academic achievement.{{Cite web |title=2010 Fellows {{!}} Optica |url=https://www.optica.org/get_involved/awards_and_honors/fellow_members/elected_fellows/2010_fellows/ |access-date=2024-12-17 |website=Optical Society of America}}

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