Lab Members & Collaborators

Principal Investigator

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  Benjamin van Buren

  Assistant Professor of Psychology
  vanburenb[at]newschool.edu

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  Ben wants to understand how we see. To study this, his research draws on a wide range of methods and intellectual traditions, including cognitive science, the philosophy of biology, gestalt psychology, and the psychology of art. Ben will be teaching two courses at the New School in the fall - Visual Perception and Cognition (for NSSR graduate students) and The Psychology of Aesthetics (for Lang and Parsons students). Before directing the NSSR Perception Lab, Ben worked as a postdoctoral researcher at KU Leuven, in Flanders, Belgium. Prior to that, he completed his PhD at Yale.

Graduate Affiliates

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  Xi Wang

  PhD student, Computer Graphics, Berlin Institute of Technology
  nicole.xiwang[at]gmail.com

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  Xi is interested in what people's eye movements can tell us about what they are remembering. To investigate the role of eye movements in memory, she has been experimenting with 'steering' observers' eyes around to see whether it is possible to systematically warp their memories of recently viewed scenes. Computer scientists are famously unafraid to take on new technical challenges, and Xi is no exception. In addition to these vision science projects, she is a talented photographer and has even made impressive forays into tap dance, and electric guitar!