How we find what we are looking for and how we choose to perceive some things and not others (visual attention)

Benjamin Wolfe

Assistant Professor,

Co-Director, Applied Perception and Psychophysics Laboratory

Areas of Expertise

How drivers acquire the visual information they need to be safe on the road and what that means for road safety and autonomous vehicles (traffic safety; driver behaviour)
How we find what we are looking for and how we choose to perceive some things and not others (visual attention)
How we perceive the visual world (visual perception)
How we read on screens and how we can improve reading for everyone (digital readability)
Why we miss things we thought we saw?

Office: 905-828-5367
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Email: benjamin.wolfe@utoronto.ca
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