Jeremy M Wolfe
Biographic Data
| ID | 933141 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jeremy M Wolfe |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jeremy M |
| FAMILY NAME | Wolfe |
| SIGNATURE | WOLFE J M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Brigham and Women's Hospital |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6475-1984 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
A common signal-strength factor limits awareness and precise knowledge of multiple moving objects across the adult lifespan
This study investigated age differences in the precise knowledge and imprecise knowledge, or awareness, of multiple moving visual objects, measured by Multiple Identity Tracking (MIT) and Multiple Object Awareness (MOA) capacities, respectively, in a multiple object tracking task. Experiment 1 demonstrated significant decline of both capacities in older observers (65–80 years) compared to younger observers (18–44 years). Experiment 2 showed that …
The First Steps in Vision: From Light to Neural Signals
This chapter explores the initial stages of vision, beginning with the fundamental physics of light and its dual nature existing both as waves and photons. It delves into the structure and function of the human eye, focusing on how the cornea, lens, and retina collaborate to capture and process light. The chapter also examines key mechanisms of adaptation to varying brightness levels, including pupil adjustments and the distinct roles of rods and…
Attention and Scene Perception
This chapter explores the complex mechanisms of attention and visual scene perception, emphasizing selective processes essential for managing the overwhelming influx of sensory information. It examines spatial attention, highlighting experiments such as the Posner cueing paradigm, which reveals how cues direct focus and improve reaction times. Temporal attention explores phenomena like rapid serial visual presentation (RSVP) and the attentional b…
Music and Speech Perception
This chapter examines the intricate relationship between music perception and speech perception, highlighting their shared roots in physical acoustics and their unique roles in human communication. It explains how music, through elements such as pitch, rhythm, and cultural variation, expresses emotions and shapes personal and collective identities. The chapter explores speech perception by describing its production mechanics—respiration, phonatio…
The Perception of Color
This chapter explains the mechanisms underlying color perception, starting with the basic principles where color arises from the interaction between light wavelengths and the nervous system. It outlines three essential steps: detection, where photoreceptors in the eye convert light into signals; discrimination, where the nervous system distinguishes between different wavelengths; and appearance, where perceived colors are assigned to objects and …
Visual Motion Perception
This chapter explores the intricate mechanisms of motion perception, emphasizing its significance as a primary perceptual dimension. It begins with motion aftereffects, such as the waterfall illusion, illustrating how direction-specific neural adaptations in the brain can create an illusory sense of movement in stationary objects. It explains the computation of visual motion through neural circuits that detect directional changes, addressing chal…
Spatial Vision: From Spots to Stripes
This chapter examines the journey that visual information takes from the retina to the brain, detailing the structures and processes involved in interpreting visual stimuli. It explores the visual acuity and the retina's ganglion cells, emphasizing how these cells respond to stripes and gratings of specific spatial frequencies. The lateral geniculate nucleus (LGN) acts as a relay station, segregating input by eye and type of information while pre…
Touch
This chapter examines the sense of touch, beginning with how physical stimuli activate neural pathways, which translate mechanical signal and thermal signals into brain responses. It describes the submodalities of touch, focusing on how discriminative touch supports object recognition, affective touch facilitates social and emotional communication, and proprioception enables humans to sense limb positions. Haptic perception links sensory input wi…
Olfaction
This chapter explores the intricate mechanisms and experiences of olfaction, beginning with the physiological and neural basis of smell perception. It examines olfactory physiology, focusing on how odorant molecules interact with the olfactory epithelium and how neural pathways in the brain interpret odors. The chapter then explains the neurophysiology of olfaction by describing how the brain processes olfactory signals and how receptor activatio…
Vestibular Sensation
This chapter delves into the multifaceted role of the vestibular system in sensory perception, balance, and spatial orientation. It highlights the system's evolutionary roots, showing its significance across vertebrates and its contributions to human locomotion and cognition. Spatial orientation involves three key modalities—angular motion, linear motion, and tilt perception—sensed by specialized vestibular organs such as semicircular canals and …
Hearing: Physiology and Psychoacoustics
This chapter explores hearing, a vital sense often overlooked, by examining sound, the auditory system's anatomy, psychoacoustics, and hearing loss. It defines sound as pressure fluctuations caused by vibrating objects traveling through various media as waves. The mammalian auditory system comprises the outer, middle, and inner ear, which work together to convert sound waves into neural signals processed by the brain. Psychoacoustics bridges phys…
Taste
This chapter explores the science of taste, distinguishing it from flavor, which combines retronasal olfaction, taste, and somatosensory cues. It describes how taste buds in tongue papillae detect chemicals and transmit signals via cranial nerves to the brain. The chapter then identifies sweet, salty, sour, and bitter as the four basic tastes and examines ongoing debates about adding umami and fat as a result of their roles in nutrient detection.…
Hearing in the Environment
This chapter explores how the auditory system enables humans to interpret complex acoustic environments. It examines sound localization through cues such as interaural time difference and interaural level differences, which give a sense of spatial awareness despite the complexity of overlapping sound waves. The auditory system interprets complex sounds, such as harmonics and timbre, as a fundamental process for distinguishing environmental or mus…
Perceiving and Recognizing Objects
This chapter explores the mechanisms enabling the brain to perceive and recognize objects, starting from simple visual features to complex object identification. It details the transition from early processing of edges and lines in the primary visual cortex (V1) to advanced analysis in the extrastriate and inferotemporal regions, highlighting the “what” and “where” pathways that distinguish object identity from spatial location. Midlevel vision a…
Space Perception and Binocular Vision
This chapter explores the mechanisms behind our perception of three-dimensional space, beginning with monocular cues such as occlusion, size, and perspective, which allow depth inference from single-eye input. It transitions to triangulation cues, where depth is deduced from motion parallax and vergence, demonstrating the integration of dynamic spatial information. The chapter then examines the role of binocular vision and stereopsis, highlightin…
Sensation & Perception
Sensation and Perception , which is now in its seventh edition, introduces readers to the world of human senses and helps answer such interesting questions as: “Why do some substances taste sweet?” or “Why does music sound musical?” The chapters consider fundamental questions about the human senses and the impact that answers to those questions have on medical and societal issues. Presenting a balanced blend of neuroscience and cognitive psycholo…
Taking prevalence effects on the road: Rare hazards are often missed
Previous work has shown that, in many visual search and detection tasks, observers frequently miss rare but important targets, like weapons in bags or abnormalities in radiological images. These prior studies of the low-prevalence effect (LPE) use static stimuli and typically permitted observers to search at will. In contrast, many real-world tasks, like looking for dangerous behavior on the road, only afford observers a brief glimpse of a comple…
Guided Search 6.0: An updated model of visual search
Feedback moderates the effect of prevalence on perceptual decisions
Efficiency and accuracy of visual search develop at different rates from early childhood through early adulthood
Most studies of visual search across the life span have focused on classic feature and conjunction searches in which observers search for a fixed, simple shape target among relatively homogeneous distractors over a block of multiple trials. In the present study, we examine a more realistic task in which participants (4 to 25 years-old) look for images of real objects, presented amongst a heterogeneous array of other objects. The target is unique …
Sensation and Perception
Choosing or rejecting a food item, does framing matter? And what has sugar to do with it
In dialogue with the NIH on clinical trials policy
Five factors that guide attention in visual search
Not your parent's NIH clinical trial
The Mind's Eye: "Readings from "Scientific American
An excellent introduction to the subject at undergraduate level. Topics include Fraunh6fer diffraction, Fourier series and periodic structures, optical and crystal diffraction gratings, convolution and correlation, optical imaging and processing, holography (very briefly), interferometry, spectroscopy and astronomical applications. Unlike many student textbooks, the author's delight in the subject shows through clearly [ 1 ]
Guided Search 2.0 A revised model of visual search
What attributes guide the deployment of visual attention and how do they do it?
Five factors that guide attention in visual search
Not your parent's NIH clinical trial
In dialogue with the NIH on clinical trials policy
Sensation and Perception
Choosing or rejecting a food item, does framing matter? And what has sugar to do with it
Efficiency and accuracy of visual search develop at different rates from early childhood through early adulthood
Most studies of visual search across the life span have focused on classic feature and conjunction searches in which observers search for a fixed, simple shape target among relatively homogeneous distractors over a block of multiple trials. In the present study, we examine a more realistic task in which participants (4 to 25 years-old) look for images of real objects, presented amongst a heterogeneous array of other objects. The target is unique …
Guided Search 6.0: An updated model of visual search
Feedback moderates the effect of prevalence on perceptual decisions
Taking prevalence effects on the road: Rare hazards are often missed
Previous work has shown that, in many visual search and detection tasks, observers frequently miss rare but important targets, like weapons in bags or abnormalities in radiological images. These prior studies of the low-prevalence effect (LPE) use static stimuli and typically permitted observers to search at will. In contrast, many real-world tasks, like looking for dangerous behavior on the road, only afford observers a brief glimpse of a comple…
The First Steps in Vision: From Light to Neural Signals
This chapter explores the initial stages of vision, beginning with the fundamental physics of light and its dual nature existing both as waves and photons. It delves into the structure and function of the human eye, focusing on how the cornea, lens, and retina collaborate to capture and process light. The chapter also examines key mechanisms of adaptation to varying brightness levels, including pupil adjustments and the distinct roles of rods and…
Attention and Scene Perception
This chapter explores the complex mechanisms of attention and visual scene perception, emphasizing selective processes essential for managing the overwhelming influx of sensory information. It examines spatial attention, highlighting experiments such as the Posner cueing paradigm, which reveals how cues direct focus and improve reaction times. Temporal attention explores phenomena like rapid serial visual presentation (RSVP) and the attentional b…
Music and Speech Perception
This chapter examines the intricate relationship between music perception and speech perception, highlighting their shared roots in physical acoustics and their unique roles in human communication. It explains how music, through elements such as pitch, rhythm, and cultural variation, expresses emotions and shapes personal and collective identities. The chapter explores speech perception by describing its production mechanics—respiration, phonatio…
The Perception of Color
This chapter explains the mechanisms underlying color perception, starting with the basic principles where color arises from the interaction between light wavelengths and the nervous system. It outlines three essential steps: detection, where photoreceptors in the eye convert light into signals; discrimination, where the nervous system distinguishes between different wavelengths; and appearance, where perceived colors are assigned to objects and …
Visual Motion Perception
This chapter explores the intricate mechanisms of motion perception, emphasizing its significance as a primary perceptual dimension. It begins with motion aftereffects, such as the waterfall illusion, illustrating how direction-specific neural adaptations in the brain can create an illusory sense of movement in stationary objects. It explains the computation of visual motion through neural circuits that detect directional changes, addressing chal…
Spatial Vision: From Spots to Stripes
This chapter examines the journey that visual information takes from the retina to the brain, detailing the structures and processes involved in interpreting visual stimuli. It explores the visual acuity and the retina's ganglion cells, emphasizing how these cells respond to stripes and gratings of specific spatial frequencies. The lateral geniculate nucleus (LGN) acts as a relay station, segregating input by eye and type of information while pre…
Touch
This chapter examines the sense of touch, beginning with how physical stimuli activate neural pathways, which translate mechanical signal and thermal signals into brain responses. It describes the submodalities of touch, focusing on how discriminative touch supports object recognition, affective touch facilitates social and emotional communication, and proprioception enables humans to sense limb positions. Haptic perception links sensory input wi…
Olfaction
This chapter explores the intricate mechanisms and experiences of olfaction, beginning with the physiological and neural basis of smell perception. It examines olfactory physiology, focusing on how odorant molecules interact with the olfactory epithelium and how neural pathways in the brain interpret odors. The chapter then explains the neurophysiology of olfaction by describing how the brain processes olfactory signals and how receptor activatio…
Vestibular Sensation
This chapter delves into the multifaceted role of the vestibular system in sensory perception, balance, and spatial orientation. It highlights the system's evolutionary roots, showing its significance across vertebrates and its contributions to human locomotion and cognition. Spatial orientation involves three key modalities—angular motion, linear motion, and tilt perception—sensed by specialized vestibular organs such as semicircular canals and …
Hearing: Physiology and Psychoacoustics
This chapter explores hearing, a vital sense often overlooked, by examining sound, the auditory system's anatomy, psychoacoustics, and hearing loss. It defines sound as pressure fluctuations caused by vibrating objects traveling through various media as waves. The mammalian auditory system comprises the outer, middle, and inner ear, which work together to convert sound waves into neural signals processed by the brain. Psychoacoustics bridges phys…
Taste
This chapter explores the science of taste, distinguishing it from flavor, which combines retronasal olfaction, taste, and somatosensory cues. It describes how taste buds in tongue papillae detect chemicals and transmit signals via cranial nerves to the brain. The chapter then identifies sweet, salty, sour, and bitter as the four basic tastes and examines ongoing debates about adding umami and fat as a result of their roles in nutrient detection.…
Hearing in the Environment
This chapter explores how the auditory system enables humans to interpret complex acoustic environments. It examines sound localization through cues such as interaural time difference and interaural level differences, which give a sense of spatial awareness despite the complexity of overlapping sound waves. The auditory system interprets complex sounds, such as harmonics and timbre, as a fundamental process for distinguishing environmental or mus…
Perceiving and Recognizing Objects
This chapter explores the mechanisms enabling the brain to perceive and recognize objects, starting from simple visual features to complex object identification. It details the transition from early processing of edges and lines in the primary visual cortex (V1) to advanced analysis in the extrastriate and inferotemporal regions, highlighting the “what” and “where” pathways that distinguish object identity from spatial location. Midlevel vision a…
Psychology (22 works) · Computer Science (16 works) · Neuroscience (11 works) · Perception (11 works) · Cognitive psychology (9 works) · Medicine (8 works) · Visual perception and processing mechanisms (8 works) · Artificial Intelligence (7 works) · Communication (6 works) · Visual Attention and Saliency Detection (5 works)