Ben van Buren

Vision scientist, Assistant Professor of Psychology @TheNewSchool in NYC.

[Ben van Buren @Benvb123]

Today at 11:30 in Talk Room 2, @HongBNguyen_ will present an exciting new project, in which she shows that predictions which are generated while moving to actively view a scene can cause memory errors in which we mistake what we predicted for what we actually saw...

#VSS2026

[Ben van Buren @Benvb123]

43.462 Can a hole have a goal? Effects of figure/ground cues on the detection and evasion of chasing

[Ben van Buren @Benvb123]

This morning in the Pavilion, Sarah Lassise will present work w/ Marina Pace investigating the implicit assumptions our visual system makes about what kinds of entities can be alive & goal-directed…

#VSS2026

[Ben van Buren @Benvb123]

The New School Perception Lab is en route to VSS. Come check out these presentations from the lab!:

Lab abstracts:
https://t.co/v4V1zh5NM5...

Presenters:
@LorenPMatelsky
@HongBNguyen_
Sarah Lassise
Marina Pace
Didi Dunin
Lawrence Duan

[Ben van Buren @Benvb123]

🌟 Call for Submissions: Visual Science of Art Conference

VSAC will take place at King’s College London (20–22 Aug 2026). This year’s theme is 'Vision Forward: Perception, Art & Technology'.

📅 Abstracts are due May 10!
🔗 https://t.co/PTm5ziA405

#Perception #Art #Technology

[Ben van Buren @Benvb123]

The deadline for the Visual Science of Art Conference has been extended to Thursday: https://t.co/luG5CSO8hG

[Daglar Tanrikulu @DaglarTanrikulu]

I am seeking applicants for a fully-funded PhD student position in my lab. The student will join the Cognition track in the Psychology PhD program at UNH. Please spread the word if you know someone who might be interested.
(RTs appreciated)

[Brady Roberts @BradyRTRoberts]

I am excited to announce that my latest project with @WilmaBainbridge is now out as a preprint! We were able to engineer the memorability of symbols by designing some to be highly memorable and others to be highly forgettable.

Read it here: https://t.co/19oN2ExXBh

[Ben van Buren @Benvb123]

Congrats, Santiago!

[Santiago Castiello @santiagocdeo]

First paper of the postdoc published :) it has been a very happy 2024. Thanks @joan_ongchoco, @bvb373, Brian and Phil!

[Ben van Buren @Benvb123]

I am looking forward to speaking at the University of Glasgow's 'Illusion of the Fortnight' talk series tomorrow!

I'll present work from my lab on the perception of causality, as well as a new method for distinguishing 'illusions' from 'anti-illusions':

https://t.co/vrnp2hvvSB

[IllusionOfTheFortnight @illusionsrockUG]

⭐️ Illusion of the Fortnight Talk series! ⭐️ Online (zoom) @UofGlasgow @UofGPsychNeuro @UofGCSPE .

Next talk: Tuesday 8 October 3-4pm UK time, Dr. Benjamin Van Buren, Illusions of Causation

Talk details below👇Want to join? Contact [email protected]

[Mariel Goddu (@marielgoddu.bsky.social) @marielgoddu]

My final (& favorite!) 1st-author paper from my Psychology PhD came out the 1st week of my Philosophy PhD 🥹
@AlisonGopnik, @eunice_yiu_, & I show that 2- and 3-year-olds rapidly learn & apply abstract relations ('bigger', 'smaller') in a causal problem-solving task!

[Bria Long, PhD @brialong]

Come join us!!

[School of Psychology, University of Aberdeen @abdnpsych]

Today's the day! The Visual Science of Art Conference (VSAC) 2024 commences today, held at the Old Aberdeen University Campus. It is a satellite conference to the European Conference on Visual Perception #ECVP2024

https://t.co/Ur06S13ElM

[Jonathan Gorard @getjonwithit]

Moths are attracted to lights because of the same mathematics that underlies twistor theory and compactification in theoretical physics: projective geometry.

It all starts from a simple observation: translations are just rotations whose center is located "at infinity". (1/11)

[Fermat's Library @fermatslibrary]

This week's paper presents evidence that wild African elephants address one another with individually specific name-like calls.

Using machine learning, the researchers showed that the receiver of a call could be predicted from the call's acoustic structure, regardless of the similarity between the call and the receiver's own vocalizations. Additionally, elephants responded differently to playbacks of calls originally addressed to them compared to calls addressed to other individuals.

They also suggest that, unlike other non-human animals, elephants seem to not rely on imitation of the receiver’s calls to address one another.

Paper here: https://t.co/hnUuJSLX56

[Chaz Firestone @chazfirestone]

Now out in Open Mind! https://t.co/YuOlh9NVw9

[OPAM 2026 @OPAMconference]

Calling all early career cognitive psychologists and neuroscientists! OPAM's abstract submission form is NOW OPEN & can be found at https://t.co/l8vf3FOCE5! Submission window closes July 15th! Additional info can be found on our website

Oh & Remember, OPAM is free to attend!

[Sami Yousif @sami_r_yousif]

New paper with @sarah_hy_lee, @brynnesherman, and Anna Papafragou, in which we explore how people's mental timelines are shaped by event structure -- using popular TV shows to examine shared memories across months and even *years*!

https://t.co/8f7M3raFZI

[Maria Pombo @mari_pombo]

Are you at #VSS2024? Stop by the Pavilion to check out my poster on our novel method to ensure accurate fixation in online fixation-dependent tasks!

[Chaz Firestone @chazfirestone]

Standing room only at #phiVis! So encouraging to see this much interest in the intersection between philosophy and vision science.

#VSS2024 @VSSMtg