Our lab is in the Psychology Department at the University of Toronto Mississauga. We study visual perception and its application to real-world problems. The lab is run jointly by Dr. Benjamin Wolfe and Dr. Anna Kosovicheva, 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. Research areas include:
See our research pageSee our lab's posters from Vision Sciences Society Meeting: Spatial Heterogeneity in Localization Biases Predicts Crowding Performance and Effects of Blur on Duration Thresholds for Road Hazard Detection
Our lab was recently featured in U of T news! Read the article here: Simple vehicle warning systems as effective as more complex ones
The fall semester is underway! We wrapped up a busy summer of conference presentations at the Vision Sciences Society and SmartiGras at UTM. We are also recruiting graduate students to start in Fall 2022.
Dr. Kosovicheva and Dr. Wolfe were featured in UTM's research podcast, View to the U
We received our first Tri-Council funding! Dr. Wolfe was awarded an NSERC Discovery Grant to study the mechanisms of visual information acquisition in driving.
Read interviews with Dr. Wolfe and Dr. Kosovicheva, who are now part of the Psychonomic Society Digital Content Team.