Visual Attention Lab (Wolfe Lab)

Visual Search nerds may want to know about the new, Guided Search "Parking Lot" ....others - stay cool. It is hot Zhao, X., Wolfe, J., & Li, Z. (2026). Properties of the threshold stimulus exposure duration (TSED) measure of visual search efficiency. AP&P 88(6), 153. doi.org/10.3758/s134...

Learn more about our publication earlier this year on selective attention and what we call "Bias Mapping" www.growkudos.com/publications...

Here is to another great year at VSS from the Visual Attention Lab!

Happy Monday VSS! Dr. Wolfe gave a great talk on quitting rules and what happens when we never look for the same thing twice #vss2026 #vss #cognitivescience

Here we come VSS 2026! We have an amazing group of people presenting some great vision science! Please see our schedule below. See you there!!

We had an exciting Seminar chat today from Stefan van der Stigchel, head of @attentionlab.bsky.social, titled "When participants aren’t human: Rethinking online behavioral research" Thank you to those who attended and to Stefan for the great talk and discussion on AI/bots in research!

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

❗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) secure-web.cisco.com/1APAkwCmgQpj...

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 search.bwh.harvard.edu/new/staff_fi...

❗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 authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

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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! massgeneralbrigham.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/MGBExternal/...

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?

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. @bwhpsychresidency.bsky.social @harvardmed.bsky.social

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.

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

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.