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Jeremy Wolfe

Center for Ophthalmic Research
Brigham and Women's Hospital
221 Longwood Ave
Boston, MA 02115
USA
Office phone: (617) 732-7841
Office fax: (617) 277-2085

Email: wolfe@search.bwh.harvard.edu
Home page: http://search.bwh.harvard.edu




Change Detection Research Interests
One of the primary interests of my lab is "post-attentive vision". Prior to the arrival of attention, objects seem to be represented as loose collections of basic features (color, size, orientation, etc.). With attentional selection, it is possible to correctly bind features (e.g. the big, red, vertical piece) and to link visual representation to memory representations for purposes of object recognition. What happens when attention is deployed elsewhere? We find that the binding and the link between vision and memory are lost without attention. For purposes of change blindness, this means that a change in a previously attended object will go unnoticed if the object is not currently attended.

Other Research Interests
Deployment of attention, models of visual search, preattentive vision


Change Detection Publications
Wolfe, J. M. (1999). Inattentional amnesia. In V. Coltheart (Ed.), Fleeting Memories (pp. 71-94). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Wolfe, J. M. (1999). Visual experience: Less than you think, more than you know. In C. Taddei-Ferretti & C. Musio (Eds.), Neuronal basis and psychological aspects of consciousness. (Vol. 8, pp. 165-185). Singapore: World Scientific.

Wolfe, J M, Klempen, N L, and Dahlen, K A (1999) Post-attentive vision. in press Journal of Experimental Psychology:Human Perception & Performance

Horowitz, T. S., & Wolfe, J. M. (1998). Visual search has no memory. Nature, 394(Aug 6), 575-577




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