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Wolfe Lab 2024
The current Wolfe Lab
(Left, top) Ava holding cow (yet to be named, currently taking suggestions), Jeunghwan and wolfie (? I don't know, felt right), Rawan, Yousra and Jihahm holding up our most prized friend, Mr. Sharky, and Brandon holding... who knows what on earth that is.
(Bottom, left) Injae with labdeuk, Jeremy with his zoom background (if you know, you know).
Principal Investigator
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Jeremy Wolfe
Jeremy Wolfe is the head of the lab. He is Professor of Ophthalmology and of Radiology at Harvard Medical School. Wolfe received an AB in Psychology in 1977 from Princeton and his PhD in Psychology in 1981 from MIT under the supervision of Richard Held. His research focuses on visual search and visual attention with a particular interest in socially important search tasks in areas such as medical image perception (e.g. cancer screening), security (e.g. baggage screening), and intelligence. He taught Intro. Psychology and other courses for 25 years, mostly at MIT. Wolfe is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a Fellow of AAAS, APA (Div 1, 3, & 6), and APS. He has been President of the Federation of Associations in Behavioral and Brain Sciences (FABBS), President of the Eastern Psychological Association, Chair of the Board of the Psychonomic Society and a member of the Board of the Vision Sciences Society. He was the founding Editor-in-Chief of Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications (CRPI) and was Editor of Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics. Wolfe also serves on the North American Board of the Union for Reform Judaism. He is married to Julie Sandell; Provost of Suffolk University in Boston (Information accurate in March, 2022). They have three sons: Ben, Philip, and Simon. Wolfe’s office contains more stuffed animals than one would expect in the office of a grown man.
Click HERE for Dr. Wolfe's CV (2022).
Email Dr. Wolfe
Research Fellows
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Injae Hong
Injae received her Ph.D at Yonsei University, Korea, where she worked with Min-Shik Kim on spatial attentional learning. Before then, she worked as a postmaster’s researcher at Korea Brain Research Institute with Su Keun Jeong. As a postdoctoral fellow, she is interested in how human's visual system efficiently (or inefficiently) works to handle abundant information from the world and affects human behavior. While Injae is not in the office, she inspires herself with the cognitive network by building yarn networks with crochet. Click here to see what's inside her brain. Fun Fact: Find her name on neurotree.org and you will see interesting fact about Injae's family tree. Injae’s three academic fathers, Jeremy, Min-Shik, and Su Keun, are all in a tangle: Jeremy is the grand-parent of Min-Shik and Su Keun is a child of Min-Shik. So, is Injae Jeremy’s academic child or grand-grand child???
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Victoria Jacoby
Victoria received her Ph.D. from UCLA where she worked with Dr. Phil Kellman. Her research has focused on optimizing perceptual learning in real-world categorization tasks, including facial identification and skin cancer classification. As a postdoctoral research fellow, she is interested in investigating visual search within the context of medical image perception and exploring the role of categories in search tasks. Outside of the lab, Victoria enjoys visiting new National Parks (current total: 28/63) and MLB ballparks (current total: 13/30).
Research Assistants
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Ava Mitra
Originally from Chittagong, Bangladesh, Ava received her B.S. in Neuroscience from Rhodes College in Memphis, TN. While at Rhodes, she worked in Dr. Jason Haberman's Visual Cognition lab, studying the visual phenomena of ensemble perception. Her research looked at the hierarchical nature of ensemble coding, assessing how memory representations of ensembles change with information decay. At home, Ava spends most of her time making Bengali food, and her greatest joy in life is cooking for the people she loves!
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Cailey Tennyson
Cailey received her Bachelor's degree in Computational Cognitive Science and a minor in English from UC Davis where she also worked as a research assistant in the Visual Cognition Lab under Dr. Joy Geng. Her research utilized VR to analyze the freeze behaviors that occur during real-world search. Outside of work, Cailey loves working with animals and continuing to develop her bowling skills.
Visiting Professors
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Jian Chen
Jian's core work focuses on understanding how humans see, understand, and interact with information. She collaborate with colleagues in scientific areas of physics, biology, and medicine. Recently, Jian began to study mode of optimal search mediated by visualizations. She also attempts to explore how to aid people to acquire knowledge from multiple-sources (e.g., figures, tables, and texts in scholarly article cohorts).
Lab Alumni
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Yonsei University, Korea
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Goethe-Univ.
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Max Plank Insti.
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Nanjing Univ. of Sci. & Tech.
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