Benjamin Balas

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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.
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Long overdue update

posted Aug 6, 2009 2:12 PM by Benjamin Balas
After 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 of Brain and Cognitive Sciences. I'm working with Nancy on a large-scale project to characterize the behavioral and neural phenotype of Autism Spectrum Disorder, which is a great opportunity to apply what I've learned about vision science, imaging, and development to a complex disorder and a multi-site research project. At the moment we're working on developing a sophisticated battery of perceptual and cognitive tasks

There are updates throughout the site to reflect recent manuscripts, the new position, and the new baby. Enjoy!