About Us

Applied Perception & Psychophysics LaboratorY (APPLY) Group

Our research group is in the Psychology Department at the University of Toronto Mississauga. We study visual perception and its application to real-world problems. The group is run by Dr. Benjamin Wolfe and Dr. Anna Kosovicheva, housing their specific research laboratories, and takes a use-inspired approach to vision science and cognitive psychology research, looking to the world for problems that can benefit from a vision science approach and that can, in turn, tell us about how visual perception works.

Wolfe Lab

The Wolfe Lab studies how we acquire visual information in real-world situations, mostly using driving as a tool to better understand visual perception, attention and behaviour, and the lab collaborates with researchers in U of T's Mechanical and Industrial Engineering program on much of this work.
driver holding a smartphone and a steering wheel

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Kosovicheva Lab

The Kosovicheva Lab studies individual differences in fundamental visual processes and the implications they have for perception in the real-world. Many real-world settings can benefit from an individual differences approach, including digital readability, collaborative tasks, and assessment of visual impairments.
people in a train station

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