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.
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.
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March 4, 2025
Dr Wolfe was interviewed by the UTM News about his new project with Dr. Birsen Donmez, “A Foundation for Next-Generation Driver Distraction Detection and Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS).” This project will be using the funding he recieved from the Enhanced Road Safety Transfer Payment Program (ERSTPP) by Transport Canada!
December 6, 2024
Congratulations to Dr. Wolfe for securing funding from the Enhanced Road Safety Transfer Payment Program (ERSTPP) by Transport Canada! This funding will go towards a project titled A Foundation for Next-Generation Driver Distraction Detection and Advanced Driver Assistance Systems which plans to examine how distractions cause people to miss road hazards using eye tracking! This project is in collaboration with Dr. Birsen Donmez’s Human Factors and Applied Statistics Lab at UofT’s Mechanical and Industrial Engineering department.
May 18, 2024
See our lab's posters from the Vision Sciences Society meeting this year:
August 31, 2023
Dr Wolfe was interviewed by the Toronto Star as an expert on visual perception and road safety regarding a redesigned intersection at Bloor and St. George in downtown Toronto.
June 12, 2023
The APPLY lab was busy at Vision Sciences Society this year! See our 2023 conference posters: