Jeremy Wolfe

Jeremy Wolfe is the head of the lab. He is Professor of Ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School. In addition, he is a visiting faculty member in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT where he teaches Introduction to Psychology, and an Adjunct Associate Professor in Cognitive and Neural Systems at Boston University. He received his AB in 1977 from Princeton and his Ph.D. in Psychology from MIT in 1981. He is married to Julie Sandell (Dept. of Anatomy, Boston University Medical School) and has three sons (Ben-19 (BU, class of '08), Philip-16, and Simon -9 click here to see a younger Simon as a Welsh shepherd) . Click here to read his curriculum vitae.

Todd Horowitz

Todd received his B.Sc. in psychology from Michigan State University in 1990, and his Ph.D. in cognitive psychology from the University of California, Berkeley in 1995, He is currently Instructor in Ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School. Todd's primary research interests are in attention, especially visual search behavior, and circadian effects on cognition.

Evan Palmer

Evan earned his B.Sc. degree in Cognitive Science from UCLA in 1996. From there, he went on to receive both a M.A. in 1998 and Ph.D. in 2003 from UCLA as a Cognitive Psychology major with a minor in Behavioral Neuroscience. Evan's doctoral dissertation examined the mental processes that allow for accurate shape perception of moving, partially occluded objects. He joined the Visual Attention Lab in the Fall of 2003, and is interested in the short-term dynamics of attentional deployment in shape perception.

Melina Kunar

Melina received her B.Sc. in Psychology from the University of Birmingham (UK) in 1999 and remained there to complete her Ph.D., with Glyn Humphreys, in 2002. From there she had a years post-doctoral position at the University of Wales, Bangor with Kim Shapiro before joining the Wolfelab in November 2003. Her research interests include contextual cueing, visual marking, the attentional blink, the role of attention on affective response, and the discovery of new features to guide attention. Click here to see her CV. Click here for her publications.