I am a vision scientist working in Dr. Nancy Kanwisher's lab in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT. I investigate the perception and recognition of faces, objects, and textures. My work combines computer vision, machine learning, psychophysics, and electrophysiology to study how children and adults recognize the people and things around them. My goal is to understand what visual information we use to make complex decisions about the world we see.
New Manuscript"A summary-statistic representation of peripheral vision explains visual crowding" was just accepted at the Journal of Vision. Lisa Nakano and Ruth Rosenholtz are co-authors on the manuscript. The ...
Posted Oct 19, 2009 7:52 AM by Benjamin Balas
New ManuscriptMy article entitled "The role of face shape and pigmentation in other-race face perception: An electrophysiological study" has just been accepted for publication in Neuropsychologia. Dr. Charles A ...
Posted Oct 10, 2009 6:17 AM by Benjamin Balas
OPAM 2009I received confirmation a few weeks ago that I'll be presenting some of my work describing ERP responses to own- and other-race faces at this year's OPAM ...
Posted Oct 24, 2009 7:19 PM by Benjamin Balas
New ManuscriptI have news from my collaborators at Brigham & Women's Hospital in Boston that our second paper describing our work using "digital surgery" to explore the perceptual consequences of face ...
Posted Sep 4, 2009 1:32 PM by Benjamin Balas
Long overdue updateAfter two years at Children's Hospital Boston, I've returned to my old stomping grounds at MIT to take another post-doctoral position with Nancy Kanwisher in the Department ...
Posted Aug 6, 2009 2:19 PM by Benjamin Balas
