Brett Fajen conducts research on perception and action. His main interests are the visual control of locomotion and perceptual-motor learning and adaptation. His research on these topics contributes to the development of the ecological and dynamical systems approaches to perception and action.
Fajen is the recipient of a four-year grant from the National Institutes of Health for a project titled "The visual guidance of locomotion,” and, in addition to his teaching and research, he is associate editor of Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance.