Recent Publications (copyright notice):
NEW!Wolfe, J.M. On topology's place in the psychophysical structure of human vision. Visual Cognition. Vol 12(4), 2005, pp. 675-682. [PDF]
NEW!Goldberg, Carey. (2005, May 31). If you don't find it often, you often don't find it. The Boston Globe. [HTML][LINK]
NEW!Wolfe, J. M., Horowitz, T.S., Kenner, N. (2005). Rare items often missed in visual searches. Nature, 435, 439-440. [PDF][Supplement]
NEW!Wolfe, J. M. (2005). Watching single cells pay attention. Science, 308, 503-504.[PDF]
NEW!Wolfe, J. M., Birnkrant, R. S., Kunar, M. A., & Horowitz, T. S. (2005). Visual search for transparency and opacity: Attentional guidance by cue combination? Journal of Vision, 5(3), 257-274, http://journalofvision.org/5/3/9/, doi:10.1167/5.3.9.[PDF]
Horowitz, T.S., Holcombe, A.O., Wolfe, J.M., Arsenio, H.C., DiMase, J.S. (2004). Attentional pursuit is faster than attentional saccade. Journal of Vision 4(7) 585-603.[website]
Wolfe, J.M., Horowitz, T.S., Kenner, N., Hyle M., Vasan, N. (2004).How fast can you change your mind? The speed of top-down guidance in visual search.Vision Research 44 1411-1426.[PDF]
Wolfe, J.M., Horowitz, T.S. (2004). What attributes guide the deployment of visual attention and how do they do it? Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 5 1-7. [PDF]
Oliva, A., Wolfe J.M., Arsenio H.C. (2004). Panoramic Search: The Interaction of Memory and Vision in Search Through a Familiar Scene. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 30:1132-1146. [PDF]
Thornton, I.M., Horowitz, T.S. (2004). The multi-item localization (MILO) task: Measuring the spatiotemporal context of vision for action. Perception and Psychophysics, 66(1) 38-50. [PDF]
Horowitz, T.S., Cade, B.E., Wolfe, J.M., & Czeisler, C.A. (2003). A Dissocation of Effects of Circadian Phase and Time Awake on Visual Selective Attention and Vigilance. Psychological Science, 14(6) 549-557. [PDF]
Wolfe, J.M., & DiMase, J.S. (2003). Do intersections server as basic features in visual search? Perception, 32: 645-656. [Abstract] [PDF]
Wolfe, J.M., Butcher, S.J., Lee, C., & Hyle, M. (2003). Changing your mind: On the contributions of top-down and bottom-up guidance in visual search for feature singletons. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 29: 483-502. [Abstract] [PDF]
Horowitz, T.S., & Wolfe, J. M. (2003). Memory for rejected distractors in visual search? Visual Cognition, 10(3): 257-298. [Abstract] [PDF]
Wolfe, J. M. (2003). Moving towards solutions to some enduring controversies in visual search. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 7(2): 70-76. [Abstract] [to request a reprint write to wolfe@search.bwh.harvard.edu]
Wolfe, J. M., Oliva, A., Horowitz, T.S., Butcher, S. J., & Bompas, A. (2002). Segmentation of objects from backgrounds in visual search tasks. Vision Research, 42(28): 2985-3004 [Abstract] [PDF]
Wolfe, J. M., Oliva, A., Butcher, S. J., & Arsenio, H. C. (2002). An Unbinding Problem? The disintegration of visible, previously attended objects does not attract attention. Journal of Vision, 2(3): 256-271 [Abstract] [PDF]
Wolfe, J.M. (2001). Asymmetries in visual search: An introduction. Perception and Psychophysics, 63(3): 381-389 [Abstract] [PDF]
Royden, C.S., Wolfe, J.M., & Klempen, N. (2001). Visual Search Asymmetries in Motion & Optic Flow Fields. Perception and Psychophysics, 63(3): 436-444 [Abstract] [PDF]
Horowitz, T. S., & Wolfe, J. M. (2001). Search for multiple targets: Remember the targets, forget the search. Perception and Psychophysics, 63(2): 272-285 [Abstract] [PDF]
Humphreys, G.W., Cinel, C., Wolfe, J.M., Olson, A., & Klempen, N. (2000) Fractionating the binding process: neuropsychological evidence distinguishing binding of form from binding of surface features. Vision Research, 40(10-12): 1569-1596. [PDF]
Wolfe, J.M., Klempen, N., & Dahlen, K. (2000) Post-attentive Vision. The Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 26(2): 693-716 [Abstract] [PDF]
Wolfe, J.M., Alvaraz, G.A., & Horowitz, T.S. (2000) Attention is Fast but Volition is Slow. Nature, 406: 691 [PDF]
Wolfe, J.M., Klempen, N., & Shulman, E. (1999) Which End is Up? Two Representations of Orientation in Visual Search. Vision Research, 39(12): 2075-2086 [Abstract] [PDF]
Cave KR, & Wolfe JM. (1999) The psychophysics of the binding problem. Neuron, 24(1): 11-17 [Abstract] [PDF]Horowitz, T.S., & Wolfe, J.M. (1998) Visual Search Has No Memory. Nature, 357: 575-577 [Abstract] [PDF]
Wolfe, J.M. (1998) Visual Memory: What do you know about what you saw? Current Biology, 8: R303-R304 [Abstract] [PDF]
Wolfe, J.M. (1998) What Can 1,000,000 Trials Tell Us About Visual Search? Psychological Science, 9(1) [Abstract] [PDF]
Wolfe, J.M. & O'Neill, P. (1998) Why are there Eccentricity Effects in Visual Search? Perception and Psychophysics, 60(1): 140-156 [PDF]
Wolfe, J.M. (1997) In a blink of the mind's eye Nature, 387: 756-757 [PDF]
Wolfe, J.M. & Bennett, S.C. (1997) Preattentive Object Files: Shapeless bundles of basic features. Vision Research, 37(1): 25-44 [Abstract] [PDF]
Chun, M.M. & Wolfe, J.M. (1996) Just Say No: How Are Visual Searches Terminated When There Is No Target Present? Cognitive Psychology, 30, 39-78 [PDF]
Wolfe, J.M., & Gancarz, G. (1996) Guided Search 3.0 Basic and Clinical Applications of Vision Science, Dordrecht, Netherlands: Kluwer Academic. 189-192 [Abstract] [PDF]
Friedman-Hill, S.R, & Wolfe, J.M. (1995) Second-Order Parallel Processing: Visual Search for the Odd Item in a Subset. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 21(3): 531-551 [PDF]
Wolfe, J.M. (1994) Guided Search 2.0: A Revised Model of Visual Search. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 1(2): 202-238 [PDF]
Wolfe, J.M., Friedman-Hill, S.R., & Bilsky, A.B. (1994) Parallel processing of part-whole information in visual search tasks. Perception & Psychophysics, 55(5): 537-550 [PDF]
Wolfe, J.M., Friedman-Hill, S.R., Stewart, M I., & O'Connell, K. M. (1992) The Role of Categorization in Visual Search for Orientation. Journal of Experimental Psychology, 18(1): 34-49 [PDF]
Wolfe, J.M. (1992) "Effortless" Texture Segmentation and "Parallel" Visual Search are not the Same Thing. Vision Research , 32(4): 757-763 [PDF]
Review Articles & Book Chapters
Wolfe, J.M. (2004). Looking at Yourself [Review of the book The Quest for Consciousness by Chistof Koch]. Nature Neuroscience 7(6) 565.[PDF]
The level of attention: Mediating between the stimulus and perception. Wolfe, J. M. In: L. Harris (Ed.), Levels of Perception: a Festschrift for Ian Howard (pp. in press): Springer Verlag; 2001.
Visual Attention (2001) Chun, M. M., & Wolfe, J. M. Visual Attention. In E. B. Goldstein (Ed.), Blackwell's Handbook of Perception, (Vol. Ch 9, pp. 272-310). Oxford, UK: Blackwell.
The Deployment of Visual Attention:Two Surprises. (2000) Wolfe, JM. In: NATO-RTO (Ed.), Search and Target Acquisition. Utrecht, Netherlands: NATO-RTO. Vol. 45, p. 20.21-20.11
Visual Attention (2000) Wolfe J. In: De Valois KK, editor. Seeing. 2nd ed. San Diego, CA: Academic Press. p. 335-386.
Inattentional Amnesia (2000) Wolfe JM. In: V. Coltheart (Ed.), Fleeting Memories. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Visual Search (1998) Wolfe J. In: Pashler H., editor. Attention. London UK: University College London Press.
Extending guided search: Why guided search needs a preattentive "item map." (1996) Wolfe J.M. In: A.F. Kramer, M.G.H. Coles, & G.D. Logan (Eds), Converging operations in the study of visual attention. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association. p. 247-270.
Ancient Publications
Wolfe JM. An Introduction to Contrast Sensitivity Testing. In: Nadler P, Miller D, and Nadler P, editors. Glare and Contrast Sensitivity for Clinicians. New York: Springer Verlag;1989. p. 5-23. [PDF]
Wolfe, J. M. (1983) Hidden visual processes. Scientific American, 248: 94-103
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