Dr Ben Wolfe
@benwolfevision.bsky.social
Assistant Professor
Psychological and Brain Sciences
University of Toronto Mississauga
Co-Director, APPLY Lab (www.applylab.org)
Least important mammal in his house (just ask the cats).
"If vision worked like *that*, we'd all be dead."
Psychological and Brain Sciences
University of Toronto Mississauga
Co-Director, APPLY Lab (www.applylab.org)
Least important mammal in his house (just ask the cats).
"If vision worked like *that*, we'd all be dead."
We need to go to Starsky again.
November 26, 2025 at 2:09 AM
We need to go to Starsky again.
Oh my, that would have been a Thing.
November 25, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Oh my, that would have been a Thing.
I’m almost certainly a boffin by any reasonable categorization.
November 25, 2025 at 10:10 PM
I’m almost certainly a boffin by any reasonable categorization.
Causing trauma for fun!
November 25, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Causing trauma for fun!
Please give them both some pets from an Internet Human
November 25, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Please give them both some pets from an Internet Human
"The Meatsack Shenanigans" feels like a bandname.
If it was just MEATSACK, they're probably a death metal band.
If it was just MEATSACK, they're probably a death metal band.
November 25, 2025 at 6:30 PM
"The Meatsack Shenanigans" feels like a bandname.
If it was just MEATSACK, they're probably a death metal band.
If it was just MEATSACK, they're probably a death metal band.
"Woe, woe is me! My humans have so many demands on their time that this floof but wastes away!"
November 25, 2025 at 6:27 PM
"Woe, woe is me! My humans have so many demands on their time that this floof but wastes away!"
This was Ido's postbac project last year (and presented at VSS2025), and the larger question of "what information do we have when and where" is informing his new work... looking at saccadic remapping in natural video!
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November 25, 2025 at 4:29 PM
This was Ido's postbac project last year (and presented at VSS2025), and the larger question of "what information do we have when and where" is informing his new work... looking at saccadic remapping in natural video!
4/4
4/4
We think of this as another entry in "peripheral vision is actually quite useful, and we don't just use central vision" file.
Very much in line with what we've been arguing for years now.
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Very much in line with what we've been arguing for years now.
3/4
November 25, 2025 at 4:29 PM
We think of this as another entry in "peripheral vision is actually quite useful, and we don't just use central vision" file.
Very much in line with what we've been arguing for years now.
3/4
Very much in line with what we've been arguing for years now.
3/4
Well, you can totally do our task - tell us where the hazard (the moose or something else you don't want to hit) - even if we block central vision with a gaze-contingent scotoma.
Interestingly: if you're good at the foveal scotoma (peripheral-only) version, you're also good at the other!
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Interestingly: if you're good at the foveal scotoma (peripheral-only) version, you're also good at the other!
2/4
November 25, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Well, you can totally do our task - tell us where the hazard (the moose or something else you don't want to hit) - even if we block central vision with a gaze-contingent scotoma.
Interestingly: if you're good at the foveal scotoma (peripheral-only) version, you're also good at the other!
2/4
Interestingly: if you're good at the foveal scotoma (peripheral-only) version, you're also good at the other!
2/4
My line - pre-COVID - is “why would I want to spend $20 USD per ticket to sit in a big dark room full of strangers?”
November 25, 2025 at 12:35 PM
My line - pre-COVID - is “why would I want to spend $20 USD per ticket to sit in a big dark room full of strangers?”
I’ll echo Rah here - most cough syrups bring me to the edge of not keeping them down, so I have opinions here, but only if you want them!
November 25, 2025 at 11:45 AM
I’ll echo Rah here - most cough syrups bring me to the edge of not keeping them down, so I have opinions here, but only if you want them!
…and, dammit, you don’t need that flavour of Enrichment Pumpkin.
November 25, 2025 at 1:38 AM
…and, dammit, you don’t need that flavour of Enrichment Pumpkin.
“I have a dilute tortie and I’m not afraid to use her!”
November 25, 2025 at 1:33 AM
“I have a dilute tortie and I’m not afraid to use her!”
And who do you want to feed to one today?
November 25, 2025 at 1:11 AM
And who do you want to feed to one today?
The mall? This week? Only if you have a platoon of disgruntled ex-Marines for escort.
November 25, 2025 at 12:49 AM
The mall? This week? Only if you have a platoon of disgruntled ex-Marines for escort.
Misguidance in the wild!
November 25, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Misguidance in the wild!
Waves from “Dept of Way Too Much Bedding”
November 25, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Waves from “Dept of Way Too Much Bedding”
I have just moved shoes from their usual location lest Cpt Asshole hork up his dinner from a height on to them (shoe storage is right below the stairs, so he can stick his head out and potentially nail them from about 2m up)
November 24, 2025 at 11:18 PM
I have just moved shoes from their usual location lest Cpt Asshole hork up his dinner from a height on to them (shoe storage is right below the stairs, so he can stick his head out and potentially nail them from about 2m up)
For the same reason I tell my trainees to explain why we care about peripheral vision.
And why I’ve told one of them to avoid “saccadic remapping” in an application that will not be read by vision people.
And why I’ve told one of them to avoid “saccadic remapping” in an application that will not be read by vision people.
November 24, 2025 at 9:09 PM
For the same reason I tell my trainees to explain why we care about peripheral vision.
And why I’ve told one of them to avoid “saccadic remapping” in an application that will not be read by vision people.
And why I’ve told one of them to avoid “saccadic remapping” in an application that will not be read by vision people.