Visual Attention Lab (Wolfe Lab)

This American Moment Calls for Psychologists to Think Differently Stand Up for Science Founder Colette Dewala shares what psychologists can uniquely offer to support science in the U.S. political sphere.

An interesting read that Dr. Wolfe wanted to share www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...

The Shape of Saccade-based Functional Visual Fields (FVFs): A cautionary note - Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics A Functional Visual Field (FVF) describes an area around the current point of fixation within which some task is done. In visual search, three types of FVF are of interest. The Resolution FVF describe...

❗New paper published in Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics❗"The Shape of Saccade-based Functional Visual Fields (FVFs): A cautionary note" from Jeremy M. Wolfe, Chia-Chien Wu, and Cailey E. Tennyson

This is Cailey's first publication!
(PDF on lab website)

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New lab t-shirts in partnership with @benwolfevision.bsky.social to celebrate Jeremy's birthday last month!

Shirts were designed by current and past RAs Cailey and Ava

❕Job opening alert❕We are looking for a new post-bac Research Assistant to join the Visual Attention Lab!
See the link for job description and how to apply

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❗New paper published in Cognition❗ "A common signal-strength factor limits awareness and precise knowledge of multiple moving objects across the adult lifespan" from Iris Wiegand, Igor S. Utochkin, Ava Mitra, Chia-Chien Wu, and Jeremy M. Wolfe

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We are officially in search of a PostDoc to join the Visual Attention Lab at BWH and affiliation with HMS under PI Dr. Jeremy Wolfe!

Please see attached link for more details and post around! We are excited to hear from you!

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a project I really like, now officially out!

"Shape Guides Visual Pretense"

by Qian and me

paper link: direct.mit.edu/opmi/article...

I'll walk through a quick version here

To get a sense of it, first consider:

Would it make more sense to pretend that this block is a car, or a strawberry?

A sharing practices review of the visual search and eye movements literature reveals recommendations for our field and others - Behavior Research Methods The sharing of research outputs is an important endeavor, one that is increasingly required by funders and publishers alike. Here, we catalogued and examined data sharing practices, using our own fiel...

This was with with @hadendewis.bsky.social @michaelhout.bsky.social @visualattentionlab.bsky.social and others who are not on here. Paper is here:

Our postdoc Victoria presented a talk on the role of exemplar and subcategory frequencies in categorical search (featuring lots of pictures of cats) and won a Professional Development Award at this year’s OPAM Conference!

Had a nice lab lunch outing to celebrate Cailey's birthday earlier this month and found some pretty trees!

Already missing this office…Had a great time during my short-term research visit @visualattentionlab.bsky.social and in Boston.

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Our RA Cailey just got back from Sensory Neuroscience Summer School at The University of Pisa!

She got to hear from speakers like Dr. Martin Rolfs and Dr. Paola Binda, as well as attend a bootcamp for 7 Tesla fMRIs.

Meet our visiting Grad Student Ecem!

She is Ph.D. candidate in Neuroscience at the University of Würzburg, studying attentional and learning processes in fear conditioning. At VAL, she focuses on visual foraging under threat, manipulating the spatial distribution of threat and value of targets.

Wonderful, glad you found it!

Suganuma, M., & Yokosawa, K. (2006). Grouping and trajectory storage in multiple object tracking: Impairments due to common item motions. Perception, 35, 483– 495. doi:10.1068/p5487

- Courtesy of Dr. Todd Horowitz and Dr. Jeremy Wolfe

Meet our visiting med student Rana!

Visiting from İstinye University in Istanbul, her interests are in understanding the connection between the eye and brain through a neuroscience-driven approach. She is focused on deepening her understanding of visual sciences and developing research skills.

Meet our RA since 2024 Cailey Tennyson!

She got her Bachelor's degree in Computational Cognitive Science from UC Davis where she was an RA with Dr. Joy Geng. She is interested in studying memory and perception and how/where these happen in the brain. Outside of research she loves to bowl and read

Mixed hybrid visual foraging is near optimal - Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics This study investigated patch-leaving strategies in mixed hybrid visual foraging scenarios, focusing on how target specificity and the number of target sets influence overall outcomes. In mixed hybrid...

Congratulations to Injae Hong on her new paper about foraging

Hong, I., & Wolfe, J. M. (2025). Mixed hybrid visual foraging is near optimal. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics. doi.org/10.3758/s134...

In the current moment, it is nice to know that something is “near optimal”

Meet our postdoc since 2024 Victoria!

She got her Ph.D. from UCLA where she worked on optimizing learning in real-world categorization, like skin cancer classification. She is interested in visual search within medical image perception and exploring the role of categories in search tasks.

Meet Dr. Jeremy Wolfe!

He is a Professor of Ophthalmology and Radiology at Harvard Med and received an AB in Psychology from Princeton and his PhD in Psychology from MIT. His research focuses on visual search and visual attention in areas such as medical image perception, security, and intelligence

Meet the Visual Attention Lab!

We are a lab researching Visual Search directed by PI Dr. Jeremy Wolfe, affiliated with Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School.