Three Project Success Alumni Named as Co-authors in Paper

Three Project Success alumni who participated as high school students in Project Success in 2023 and 2024 are co-authors in a recent research paper published in the scientific journal, Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics. The article is entitled “Mixing it up: Intermixed and blocked visual search tasks produce similar results”. In visual search experiments, observers look for a target among distractors. This experiment compares a situation where observers look for the same thing for a block of trials to a situation where the search task changes from trial to trial. 

Eduard Objio Jr., Hula Khalifa and Yousra Ali, worked with Principal Investigator, Dr. Jeremy Wolfe, PhD, Professor of Ophthalmology and Radiology at Brigham and Women's Hospital, and his team in the Visual Attention Lab at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Dr. Wolfe has been a dedicated mentor to young people, welcoming young Project Success students in his lab for over 20 years and supporting their future achievements. 

Project Success is a program for Boston and Cambridge residents who are juniors and seniors in high school. Students participate in paid, mentored, summer research internships and group learning experiences at Harvard Medical School and its affiliated institutions.

Read the article: Wolfe, J. M., Hong, I., Mitra, A. A., Objio, E., Khalifa, H., & Ali, Y. (2025). Mixing it up: Intermixed and blocked visual search tasks produce similar results. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics. doi:10.3758/s13414-025-03077-8

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