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Lab Members

Wolfe Lab 2012

Sage, Lisa, Dejan, Wajdy, Todd, Melissa,

Amanda, Leila, Diego, Ray Corbin, Trafton, Karla

and Jeremy!

Principal Investigators

Jeremy Wolfe

Jeremy Wolfe is the head of the lab. He is Professor of Ophthalmology and Radiology at Harvard Medical School. In addition, he is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT 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 (Assoc. Provost for Faculty Affairs, Boston U) and has three sons (Ben-26; graduate student at Berkeley with David Whitney), Philip-23, and Simon -16. 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 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.

 

Research Fellows

Karla Evans

Karla received her Ph.D. at Princeton University where, under the tutelage of Anne Treisman, she 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 her thesis she 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 she is further honing her psychophysical expertise as she now ties to understand the effect of target prevalence in visual search and how deployment of attention determines what is perceived in real scenes. She is particularly interested in understanding how perceptual information within and across senses gets integrated into a unified complex percept of the world. Click here for her C.V..


Melissa Le-Hoa Vo

Melissa received her diploma in cognitive psychology from the Free University Berlin in 2006 investigating the interaction of emotion and cognition in word, sentence, and picture processing. After a few months of backpacking - visiting awesome places like India, Singapore, Malaysia, Australia, New Zealand, as well as family in the US - she went back to her hometown Munich, where she started to work on "Attention Allocation in Scene Perception" receiving her Ph.D. from the Ludwig-Maximilians University in 2008. As a postdoctoral research fellow she then went on to join the Visual Cognition Lab at the University of Edinburgh. Together with Prof. John M. Henderson she dived even deeper into the exciting world of eye guidance in scene perception (not without also diving deep into the Scottish water of life!). In the Visual Attention Lab, she will continue to investigate what guides attention and eye movements during search in naturalistic scenes. She is particularly interested in how expectations regarding the composition of a scene influence eye movement control. Click here for her C.V., publications, and some more scenes.

Trafton Drew

Trafton got his PhD working with Ed Vogel at the University of Oregon. Before that, he worked with Ron Mangun and Barry Giesbrecht at UC-Davis, Kimron Shapiro at UW-Bangor, and as an undergrad, Peter Gordon at UNC-Chapel Hill. Trafton studies the relationship between attention and working memory through the use of variety of methodologies including eye-tracking, electrophysiology and psychophysical techniques. His graduate work focused on developing neural measures of the different types of processing that take place during attentive tracking using ERPs (and plotting negative as up, as god intended). As a post-doc, he is using studying ways to improve radiologist performance. This includes monitoring eye-movements of radiologists as they search and studying how observers interpret computer aided detection (CAD) marks during difficult search tasks. He has a very infrequently updated website, where you can see his CV and other random stuff about him.


Research Assistant

Sage Boettcher

Sage received her BS in Psychology and BS in Statistics from the University of Delaware. Under the guidance of Jim Hoffman, she completed her senior thesis on the neural component of emotion-induced blindness using event related potentials. Sage joined the lab in June 2012.

 


Graduate Students

Jinxia Zhang

Jinxia is a visiting student in Visual Attention Lab. She joined the lab in October 2012. She is a Ph.D. candidate student in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing, China. Her research interests include visual attention, visual saliency detection, computer vision and machine learning.

 

Kilian Semmelmann

During his Bachelor of Science in Cognitive Science at the University of Osnabrueck, Kilian worked on Autism and Human Social Perception at MIT and sensory integration at UCSD, finishing his degree with a thesis about Adaptive Saliency Maps under the supervison of Peter Koenig. He currently studies Neuro-Cognitive Psychology at Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich and is working at the Wolfe Lab on Visual Attention and Foraging Theory since 2012.

 

Lab Alumni

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Former Post-Doctoral Research Fellows

Piers Howe
'07-'10

Click here to see his info

Ester Reijnen
'08-'09

Michelle Greene
'09-'11

Anina Rich
'05-'07

Click here to see her CV. Click here for publications

David Fencsik
'03-'07

Click here to see his info

Evan Palmer
'03-'07

Click here to see his info

Yair Pinto'08-'10

Click hereto see his info

Melina Kunar
'03-'06

Click here tosee her info

Aude Oliva
'00-'02

Nayantara Santhi
'00-'02

Riccardo Pedersini

'08-'10

Click here to see his info


Former Graduate Students

Dejan Draschkow

Summer '12

MS in Neuro-Cognitive Psychology from the University of Munich

Lisa Pfannmüller

Spring '12-Summer '12

MS in Neuro-Cognitive Psychology from the University of Munich

Serap Yigit-Elliott

'11-'12

University of Washington

Kazuya Ishibashi
Spring 10' - Summer 10'

Kobe University
Kobe, Japan

Maria Nordfang
Spring 10' - Summer 10'

University of Copenhagen
Copenhagen, Denmark

Patricia Graf
'08-'09

 Ludwig-Maximilians-University
Munich, Germany

Greg Gancarz
'93-'96, BU/CNS
Corinna Lathan
'89-'90

Former Visiting Post-Docs

Michael Zehetleitner
2009, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich
Yair Pinto
Spring '07

Former Research Assistants

Corbin Cunningham
'10-'12

Ashley Sherman
'10-'12

Lori Myers
'09-'10

Erica Kreindel
'09- '11

Yoana Kuzmova
'07- '10

Michael Cohen
'07-'09

Michael Van Wert
'05-'08

Steve Flusberg
'04-'06

Skyler
Place'04-'06

Kristin Michod
'03-'05

Sarah Klieger
'03-'04

Naomi Kenner
'02-'05

Randy Birnkrant
'02-'04

Jennifer DiMase
'01-'03

Helga Arsenio
'00-'02

Megan Hyle
'00-'02

Serena Butcher
'99-'01

George Alvarez
'98-'00

Asia Wong
'98-'99
Nikki Klempen
'96-'98
Kari Dahlen
'96-'98
Sara Bennett
'94-'96
Alexander Bilsky
'92-'94
Stacia Friedman-Hill
'89-92
Marni Stewart
'88-'91
Sue Franzel
'86-'88
   
 



Former Visiting, Undergraduate, and High School Students

Leila Heidari
CELEST '12
Raymond Farmer
Project Success '11-'12
Diego Reyes
Project Success '12
Wajdy Awad
RSI '12
Amanda Choo
RSI '12
Kimberly Lamare
Project Success '10
Ronny DeLeon
Project Success '10
Aina Martinez Zurita
RSI '10
Tommy Liu
RSI '10
Sheena-Gail Powell
Project Success '09
Ayman Jabarin 
RSI '09
Ian Cinnamon
RSI'09
Mahilet Oluma
Project Success '08
Christina Chang
RSI'08
Julianna Pillemer
Summer undergrad '07
Max Uhlenhuth
RSI '07
Nicole Nova
RSI '07
Randall Carter
Project Success '06, '07
Erick Desingco
Project Sucess '06
Genevieve Williams
RSI '06
Sophie Cai
RSI '06
Juliana Rotter
UROP '06
Julia Fong
UROP '06
Clare Dean
UROP '06
Jessenia Urrea
Project Sucess '05
Ansam Sinjab
RSI '03
Matthew Tsg
RSI '03
Linda Tran
Project Success '03
Kevin Yang
Project Success '03
Carol Lee
Summer '03, RSI '00
Hermie Mendoza
RSI '02
Dan Seltzer
Summer '02
Nina Vasan
RSI '01
Liz Shulman
Summer '97, '98
Adriana Elmes
Visiting '92
Felicity Lanier
Summer '92
Albert Lew
UROP '91
Yurah Kim
Summer '91
Erica Song
UROP '90, '91
Alice Yee
UROP '88-'90
Tracy Kincaid
UROP '89, '90
Lisa Gische
UROP '89, '90
John Martello
UROP '89, '90
Maya Bose
UROP '89, '90
Stephanie Jackson
Summer '89
Charlie Pokorny
UROP '89
Karen Yu
UROP '87-'89
Arthur Figel
UROP '86-'88
Felicita Treue
Visiting '88
Bob Sugiura
UROP '88
Amy Pruszenski
UROP '87
Brian Katz
Summer
Marc Light
Summer '85, '86