Dr. Lee A. Holcomb is a cognitive psychologist and human factors scientist specializing in visual attention, eye movement behavior, and human perceptual performance.At Explico, Dr. Holcomb applies rigorous scientific methods to evaluate how people perceive, attend to, and respond to hazards and information in real-world environments, including driving behavior and accidents, warnings and product liability, industrial and occupational accidents, and trip-and-fall accidents.
Dr. Holcomb received his PhD in psychology from the University of California, Davis, where his research examined how visual attention and eye movement behavior relate to what people perceive in their environment. His work showed that people's eyes make small, involuntary movements that reveal where their attention is directed, even when they appear to be looking elsewhere. He also examined how individual differences in cognitive capacity affect these attentional processes, finding that a person's underlying cognitive abilities can meaningfully shape how reliably they detect and respond to their surroundings. This research has direct application to real-world questions about what a person could or should have perceived in a given situation, and how individual variability factors into that analysis.
