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Visual Attention Lab (Wolfe Lab)

@visualattentionlab.bsky.social
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Welcome to the VAL (also known as the Wolfe Lab) Our lab specializes in Visual Search and is run by Dr. Jeremy Wolfe We are affiliated with Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School search.bwh.harvard.edu/new/index.ht…

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Visual Attention Lab (Wolfe Lab) @visualattentionlab.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
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...
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Visual Attention Lab (Wolfe Lab) @visualattentionlab.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Once upon a time Sage Boettcher was my fresh-out-of-college Research Assistant. Now she is faculty at Oxford. I am delighted to still be invited to collaborate with her. "Making time for a dynamic attentional priority map" Boettcher, Williams, Wolfe, & Shalev authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...
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Visual Attention Lab (Wolfe Lab) @visualattentionlab.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Learn more about our publication earlier this year on selective attention and what we call "Bias Mapping" www.growkudos.com/publications...
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Not that kind of bias
The world presents us with too much visual stimulation, so we use our attention to select some of the visual input for further processing. Interestingly, we turn out to have idiosyncratic biases about...
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Visual Attention Lab (Wolfe Lab) @visualattentionlab.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
FABBS Webinar: An Introduction to the Federal Science Ecosystem TOMORROW June 11 @ 1:00pm ET (Virtual) Description in thread! Register here: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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Visual Attention Lab (Wolfe Lab) @visualattentionlab.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Here is to another great year at VSS from the Visual Attention Lab!
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Visual Attention Lab (Wolfe Lab) @visualattentionlab.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
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
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Visual Attention Lab (Wolfe Lab) @visualattentionlab.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
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!!
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Visual Attention Lab (Wolfe Lab) @visualattentionlab.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
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!
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Visual Attention Lab (Wolfe Lab) @visualattentionlab.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
An interesting read that Dr. Wolfe wanted to share www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...
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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.
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Visual Attention Lab (Wolfe Lab) @visualattentionlab.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
❗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...
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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...
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Visual Attention Lab (Wolfe Lab) @visualattentionlab.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
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
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Visual Attention Lab (Wolfe Lab) @visualattentionlab.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
❕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...
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Visual Attention Lab (Wolfe Lab) @visualattentionlab.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
❗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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Visual Attention Lab (Wolfe Lab) @visualattentionlab.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
#postdoc #cogpsych #neurojobs #psychologyjobs #visionscience #cogsci
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Visual Attention Lab (Wolfe Lab) @visualattentionlab.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
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/...
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Postdoctoral Fellow Visual Attention Lab
Site: The Brigham and Women's Hospital, Inc. Mass General Brigham relies on a wide range of professionals, including doctors, nurses, business people, tech experts, researchers, and systems analysts t...
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Tomer Ullman @tomerullman.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
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?
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Hayward Godwin @haywardgodwin.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
This was with with @hadendewis.bsky.social @michaelhout.bsky.social @visualattentionlab.bsky.social and others who are not on here. Paper is here:
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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...
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Visual Attention Lab (Wolfe Lab) @visualattentionlab.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
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!
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Visual Attention Lab (Wolfe Lab) @visualattentionlab.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Had a nice lab lunch outing to celebrate Cailey's birthday earlier this month and found some pretty trees!
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Ecem Tavacioglu @ecemtavacioglu.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
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
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Visual Attention Lab (Wolfe Lab) @visualattentionlab.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
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.
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Visual Attention Lab (Wolfe Lab) @visualattentionlab.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
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.
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Visual Attention Lab (Wolfe Lab) @visualattentionlab.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
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.
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Visual Attention Lab (Wolfe Lab) @visualattentionlab.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
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
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Visual Attention Lab (Wolfe Lab) @visualattentionlab.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
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”
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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...
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Visual Attention Lab (Wolfe Lab) @visualattentionlab.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
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.
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Visual Attention Lab (Wolfe Lab) @visualattentionlab.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
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
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Visual Attention Lab (Wolfe Lab) @visualattentionlab.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
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.
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