Mary Myleen Hayhoe is an Australian American [citation needed] psychologist who researches vision.
In 2024, Hayhoe was awarded the Kurt Koffka Medal for "advancing the fields of perception or developmental psychology to an extraordinary extent".
Hayhoe joined the University of California, San Diego for graduate research, where she studied how eyes adapt to dark light environments.
][citation needed] She moved to the University of Rochester in 1984, where she was promoted from assistant to associate and eventually full professor.
[1] Hayhoe's research considers visual sensation and the relationships between vision and movement.