Recently, he and members of the laboratory have measured the reorganization of maps and cortical function following brain injury.

He and his group are hoping to understand how visual signals and structures must develop to permit rapid, skilled reading.

[5] According to Stanford,[6] An overall effort of the Wandell lab involves sharing data and computational methods with the broader scientific community.

This work, which was funded by a grant from the National Science Foundation, supports that effort by providing data and a complete implementation of the method through the Stanford Digital Repository and GitHub.Along with Laurence Maloney, Wandell was awarded the National Academy of Sciences' Troland Research Award in 1987 "For their elegant account of how we preserve the inherent colors of surfaces despite wide variations in illumination, and of Wandell's other fundamental investigations of color vision.

[9] His lab also has a collection of datasets available for use in teaching and research hosted by Stanford's Digital Repository.