The Shevell Visual Science Lab is headed by Professor Steven Shevell in the Departments of Psychology and Ophthalmology & Visual Science at the University of Chicago. We investigate processes of the eye and brain that serve vision. Our research focuses primarily on visual pathways that mediate color and brightness perception.


News

Lab Member Updates

  • August 2022: Doctoral candidates Jaelyn Peiso and Ryan Lange have both successfully defended their doctoral dissertation. Congratulations to now Dr. Jaelyn Peiso and Dr. Ryan Lange!

  • July 2021: Doctoral candidate Emily Slezak successfully defended her doctoral dissertation. Congratulations to now Dr. Emily Slezek!

  • May 2021: Doctoral candidate Ryan Lange received the John Dewey Prize Lectureship for 2020/21

  • May 2019: Doctoral candidate Emily Slezak received the John Dewey Prize Lectureship for 2019/20

Recent Publications 

Recent Research Presentations

  • July, 2022: Doctoral candidate Jaelyn Peiso presented “The Resolution of Ambiguous Neural Representations: The Role of Chromatic Contrast” at the 26th Symposium of the International Colour Vision Society

  • July, 2022: Doctoral candidate Ryan Lange presented “Chromatic Object-Substitution Masking (OSM) Does Not Follow the Target-Flanker Similarity Hypothesis” at the 26th Symposium of the International Colour Vision Society

  • May, 2022: Doctoral candidate Sunny Lee presented a talk titled “Color-motion feature misbinding with optic-flow versus vertical motion” at the Vision Sciences Society Annual Meeting

  • May, 2022: Director Steven Shevell presented work with Emily Slezak in a talk titled “Do identical percepts from multiple ambiguous neural representations depend on the suppressed competing representations?” at the Vision Sciences Society Annual Meeting

  • May, 2022: Doctoral candidate Ryan Lange presented a poster titled “Object-substitution masking disrupts feature processing for color and tilt” at the Vision Sciences Society Annual Meeting

  • May, 2020: Doctoral candidate Emily Slezak presented “Grouping dichoptically-produced plaids: Ruling out changes in interocular suppression as an explanation” at the Virtual Vision Sciences Society Annual Meeting

  • May, 2020:Research associate Xiaohua Zhuang presented “Plaid from orthogonal rivalrous gratings: Binocular resolution of competing neural representations” at the Virtual Vision Sciences Society Annual Meeting