Melissa Võ

Short info

Our lab loves making a scene, which is why our research focuses on investigating the rules that govern object and scene perception. We are particularly interested in how scene grammar guides visual attention, boosts object perception/memory, and allows us to efficiently extract semantic information from scenes within the glimpse of an eye. Our overarching goal is to better understand human cognition while acting in real-world environments. For that purpose, we use a mixture of methods, including psychophysics, eye-tracking in real and VR environments, computational modelling as well as EEG.

Open Science

Gregorova, K., Turini, J., Gagl, B., & Vo, M. L. H. (2021).
Access to meaning from visual input: Object and word frequency effects in categorization behavior.
PsyArXiv Preprints

Articles

Baltaretu, B. R., Schuetz, I., Võ, M. L. H., & Fiehler, K. (2024).
Scene semantics affects allocentric spatial coding for action in naturalistic (virtual) environments.
Scientific Reports, 14(1), 15549.

Beitner, J., Helbing, J., David, E. J., & Võ, M. L. H. (2024).
Using a flashlight-contingent window paradigm to investigate visual search and object memory in virtual reality and on computer screens.
Scientific Reports, 14(1), 8596.

David, E., Gutiérrez, J., Võ, M. L. H., Coutrot, A., Da Silva, M. P., & Le Callet, P. (2024).
The Salient360! toolbox: Handling gaze data in 3D made easy.
Computers & Graphics, 103890.

Helbing, J., Draschkow*, D., & Võ*, M. L.-H. (2022).
Auxiliary scene-context information provided by anchor objects guides attention and locomotion in natural search behavior.
Psychological science, 33(9), 1463–1476.

Kallmayer, A., Võ, M. L. H., & Draschkow, D. (2023).
R Viewpoint dependence and scene context effects generalize to depth rotated three-dimensional objects.
Journal of Vision, 23 (10), 9.

Krugliak, A., Draschkow, D., Võ, M. L. H., & Clarke, A. (2023).
Semantic object processing is modulated by prior scene context.
Language, Cognition and Neuroscience,1-10.

Turini, J., & Võ, M. L. H. (2022).
Hierarchical organization of objects in scenes is reflected in mental representations of objects.
Scientific Reports, 12(1), 20068.

Wiesmann, S. L., & Võ, M. L. H. (2022).
What makes a scene? Fast scene categorization as a function of global scene information at different resolutions.
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 48(8), 871.

Wiesmann, S. L., & Võ, M. L.-H. (2023).
Disentangling diagnostic object properties for human scene categorization.
Sci Rep 13, 5912.