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Principal Investigators
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Jeremy Wolfe
Jeremy Wolfe is the head of the lab. He is Professor of Ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School. In addition, he is a Senior Lecturer 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-20 (BU, class of '08), Philip-17, and Simon -10 click here to see a younger Simon as a Welsh shepherd). Click here to read his curriculum vitae.
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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 Assistant Professor in Ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School. Todd's primary research interests are in attention, especially visual search and multiple object tracking, and circadian effects on cognition. Click here to see his CV.
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Research Fellows
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Piers Howe
Piers received an MPhys (Master of Physics) from Oxford in 1998 and a Ph.D. in Cognitive and Neural Systems from Boston University in 2003. He worked as a Helen Hay Whitney Postdoctoral Fellow with Dr. Margaret Livingstone in the Department of Neurobiology at Harvard Medical School before joining the Visual Attention Laboratory in 2007. Currently, his primarily interest is in visual attention which he studies using a combination of fMRI and behavioral techniques. Click here for his C.V. and here for his publications.
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Riccardo Pedersini
Riccardo received his MSc in Experimental Psychology and his Ph.D. in Perception and Psychophysics from the University of Padova. Before joining the Visual Attention Lab, he worked at the University Pompeu Fabra with Prof. Marc Le Menestrel and Prof. Rosemarie Nagel in the Department of Economics and Business. His primarily research interest is biases affecting perceptual and social decisions. Click here to see his CV.
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Karla Evans
I received my Ph.D. at Princeton University where, under the tutelage of Anne Treisman, I studied natural scene perception and the role of attention in processing complex visual stimuli, as well as crossmodal interaction between correspondent auditory and visual features. For my thesis I used psychophysics, fMRI, and electrophysiology in humans to understand featural correspondence between basic auditory and visual features, exploring the nature, the neural correlates and the role of attention in their interaction. As a postdoctoral fellow in the Visual Attention Lab I am further honing my psychophysical expertise as I now try to understand the effect of target prevalence in visual search and how deployment of attention determines what is perceived in real scenes. I am particularly interested in understanding how perceptual information within and across senses gets integrated into a unified complex percept of the world.
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Research Assistants
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Michael Van Wert
Mike received his B.A. in Psychology and Philosophy from Cornell University in 2005. He has been working in the Wolfelab since September 2005, studying low target prevalence visual search and guidance. His interests include music cognition, unconscious processing, social activism and hint of lime chips.
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Michael Cohen
Michael received a B.A. in Philosophy from Tufts University in 2007, where he wrote his senior project on the relationship between attention and consciousness under Daniel Dennett and Ray Jackendoff. He joined the Wolfelab in June of 2007, studying issues in multiple object tracking, the relationship between attention and awareness, color perception, and memory. His other interests include unconscious perception, change blindness, philosophy of mind, and Frasier.
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Yoana Kuzmova
Yoana Kuzmova holds a BA in Neuroscience and Behavior from Vassar College. She was the last person to join the lab in July 2007. As such, she studies and is interested in everything she can get her hands on, with a particular emphasis on color perception, multiple object tracking and object recognition. While making the world a better place is her main interest, she also settles for tackling issues of lesser importance, such as the evolution of color recognition, why pink is good for girls, and how to make the perfect cup of tea.
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Lab Alumni
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Former Post-Doctoral Research Fellows
Anina Rich
'05-'07
Click here to see her CV. Click here for publications
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David Fencsik
'03-'07
Click here to see his info
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Evan Palmer
'03-'07
Click here to see his info
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Melina Kunar
'03-'06
Click here to see her info
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Aude Oliva
'00-'02
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Nayantara Santhi
'00-'02
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Former Graduate Students
Greg Gancarz
'93-'96, BU/CNS |
Corinna Lathan
'89-'90 |
Former Visiting Graduate Students/Post-Docs
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Ester Reijnen
Fall '06
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Yair Pinto
Spring '07
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Former Research Assistants
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Steve Flusberg
'04-'06
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Skyler Place
'04-'06
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Kristin Michod
'03-'05
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Naomi Kenner
'02-'05
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Sarah Klieger
'03-'04
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Randy Birnkrant
'02-'04
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Helga Arsenio
'00-'02
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Megan Hyle
'00-'02
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Serena Butcher
'99-'01
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George Alvarez
'98-'00
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Asia Wong
'98-'99
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Nikki Klempen
'96-'98
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Kari Dahlen
'96-'98
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Sara Bennett
'94-'96
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Alexander Bilsky
'92-'94
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Stacia Friedman-Hill
'89-92
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Marni Stewart
'88-'91
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Sue Franzel
'86-'88
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Former Visiting, Undergraduate, and High School Students
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Julianna Pillemer
Summer undergrad '07
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Max Uhlenhuth
RSI '07
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Nicole Nova
RSI '07
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Genevieve Williams
RSI '06
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Sophie Cai
RSI '06
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Randall Carter
Project Success '06, '07
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Erick Desingco
Project Sucess '06
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Clare Dean
UROP '06
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Julia Fong
UROP '06
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Juliana Rotter
UROP '06
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Jessenia Urrea
Project Sucess '05
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Ansam Sinjab
RSI '03
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Matthew Tsg
RSI '03
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Kevin Yang
Project Success '03
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Linda Tran
Project Success '03
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Carol Lee
Summer '03, RSI '00
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Hermie Mendoza
RSI '02
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Dan Seltzer
Summer '02
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Nina Vasan
RSI '01
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Liz Shulman
Summer '97, '98
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Adriana Elmes
Visiting '92
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Felicity Lanier
Summer '92
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Albert Lew
UROP '91
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Yurah Kim
Summer '91
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Alice Yee
UROP '88-'90
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Tracy Kincaid
UROP '89, '90
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Lisa Gische
UROP '89, '90
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John Martello
UROP '89, '90
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Maya Bose
UROP '89, '90
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Stephanie Jackson
Summer '89
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Charlie Pokorny
UROP '89
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Karen Yu
UROP '87-'89
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Arthur Figel
UROP '86-'88
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Felicita Treue
Visiting '88
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Marc Light
Summer '85, '86
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