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Benjamin J. Balas - Publications

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The Children's Hospital Boston, Boston, MA, United States 
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Year Citation  Score
2023 Balas B, Sandford A, Ritchie K. Not the norm: Face likeness is not the same as similarity to familiar face prototypes. I-Perception. 14: 20416695231171355. PMID 37151573 DOI: 10.1177/20416695231171355  0.394
2021 Geiger AR, Balas B. Robot faces elicit responses intermediate to human faces and objects at face-sensitive ERP components. Scientific Reports. 11: 17890. PMID 34504241 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-97527-6  0.44
2021 Bayet L, Saville A, Balas B. Sensitivity to face animacy and inversion in childhood: Evidence from EEG data. Neuropsychologia. 107838. PMID 33775702 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2021.107838  0.79
2021 Balas B. Developing Race Categories in Infancy via Bayesian Face Recognition. Visual Cognition. 21: 1138-1164. PMID 24723788 DOI: 10.1080/13506285.2013.800622  0.443
2021 Balas B. Developing Race Categories in Infancy via Bayesian Face Recognition. Visual Cognition. 21: 1138-1164. PMID 24723788 DOI: 10.1080/13506285.2013.800622  0.443
2021 Balas B. Biological Sex Determines Whether Faces Look Real. Visual Cognition. 21. PMID 24244103 DOI: 10.1080/13506285.2013.823138  0.449
2021 Balas B. Biological Sex Determines Whether Faces Look Real. Visual Cognition. 21. PMID 24244103 DOI: 10.1080/13506285.2013.823138  0.449
2020 Quinn PC, Balas BJ, Pascalis O. Reorganization in the representation of face-race categories from 6 to 9 months of age: Behavioral and computational evidence. Vision Research. 179: 34-41. PMID 33285348 DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2020.11.006  0.352
2020 Balas B, Auen A, Saville A, Schmidt J, Harel A. Children are sensitive to mutual information in intermediate-complexity face and non-face features. Journal of Vision. 20: 6. PMID 32407437 DOI: 10.1167/Jov.20.5.6  0.48
2020 Balas B, Pacella J. Artificial faces are harder to remember. Computers in Human Behavior. 52: 331-337. PMID 26195852 DOI: 10.1016/j.chb.2015.06.018  0.483
2020 Balas B, Pacella J. Artificial faces are harder to remember. Computers in Human Behavior. 52: 331-337. PMID 26195852 DOI: 10.1016/j.chb.2015.06.018  0.483
2020 Balas B. Attentive texture similarity as a categorization task: Comparing texture synthesis models. Pattern Recognition. 41: 972-982. PMID 20890384 DOI: 10.1016/j.patcog.2007.08.007  0.353
2019 Balas B, Auen A, Thrash J, Lammers S. Children's use of local and global visual features for material perception Journal of Vision. 20: 10-10. PMID 32097486 DOI: 10.1167/Jov.20.2.10  0.383
2019 Balas B, Harel A, Auen A, Saville A. Neural Sensitivity to Mutual Information in Intermediate-Complexity Face Features Changes during Childhood. Brain Sciences. 9. PMID 31261725 DOI: 10.3390/Brainsci9070154  0.492
2019 Oruc I, Balas B, Landy MS. Face perception: A brief journey through recent discoveries and current directions. Vision Research. PMID 31201832 DOI: 10.1016/J.Visres.2019.06.005  0.51
2019 Oruc I, Balas B, Landy MS. Introduction to the special issue on face perception: Experience, models, and neural mechanisms. Vision Research. 157: 10-11. PMID 31173774 DOI: 10.1016/J.Visres.2019.06.001  0.449
2019 Balas B, Pearson H. The Flashed Face Distortion Effect Does Not Depend on Face-Specific Mechanisms. Scientific Reports. 9: 1612. PMID 30733511 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-37991-9  0.529
2019 Balas B, Auen A. Perceiving Animacy in Own-and Other-Species Faces Frontiers in Psychology. 10: 29. PMID 30728795 DOI: 10.3389/Fpsyg.2019.00029  0.551
2019 Balas B, Verdugo MQ. Low-level orientation information for social evaluation in face images. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. 25: 2224-2230. PMID 29404799 DOI: 10.3758/s13423-018-1438-5  0.427
2018 Balas B, Gable J, Pearson H. The Effects of Blur and Inversion on the Recognition of Ambient Face Images. Perception. 301006618812581. PMID 30526345 DOI: 10.1177/0301006618812581  0.485
2018 Balas B, Saville A, Schmidt J. Neural sensitivity to natural texture statistics in infancy. Developmental Psychobiology. 60: 765-774. PMID 30033613 DOI: 10.1002/dev.21764  0.4
2018 Jones B, DeBruine L, Flake J, Aczel B, Adamkovic M, Alaei R, Alper S, Solas S, Andreychik M, Ansari D, Arnal J, Babinčák P, Balas B, Baník G, Barzykowski K, et al. To Which World Regions Does the Valence-Dominance Model of Social Perception Apply? [ Registered Report Stage 1 - Protocol] Nature Human Behaviour. DOI: 10.6084/M9.Figshare.7611443.V1  0.37
2018 Balas B, Auen A, Saville A, Schmidt J. Body emotion recognition disproportionately depends on vertical orientations during childhood International Journal of Behavioral Development. 42: 278-283. DOI: 10.1177/0165025417690267  0.387
2018 Balas B, Bayet L, Saville A. Neural sensitivity to face animacy in childhood Journal of Vision. 18: 563-563. DOI: 10.1167/18.10.563  0.466
2018 Pearson H, Gable J, Balas B. The effects of blur and inversion on sorting ambient face images by identity Journal of Vision. 18: 162-162. DOI: 10.1167/18.10.162  0.464
2018 Balas B, Tupa L, Pacella J. Measuring social variables in real and artificial faces Computers in Human Behavior. 88: 236-243. DOI: 10.1016/J.Chb.2018.07.013  0.364
2017 Balas B. Children's use of visual summary statistics for material categorization. Journal of Vision. 17: 22. PMID 29090317 DOI: 10.1167/17.12.22  0.348
2017 Balas B, van Lamsweerde AE, Auen A, Saville A. The Impact of Face Inversion on Animacy Categorization. I-Perception. 8: 2041669517723653. PMID 28835814 DOI: 10.1177/2041669517723653  0.543
2017 Balas B, van Lamsweerde AE, Saville A, Schmidt J. School-age children's neural sensitivity to horizontal orientation energy in faces. Developmental Psychobiology. PMID 28833000 DOI: 10.1002/dev.21546  0.498
2017 Balas B, Saville A. Hometown size affects the processing of naturalistic face variability. Vision Research. 141: 228-236. PMID 28025050 DOI: 10.1016/J.Visres.2016.12.005  0.54
2017 Balas B. Seeing number using texture: How summary statistics account for reductions in perceived numerosity in the visual periphery. Attention, Perception & Psychophysics. 78: 2313-2319. PMID 27613743 DOI: 10.3758/S13414-016-1204-6  0.376
2017 Short L, Balas B, Wilson C, Linzel M. The Effect of Home-Schooling on Face Processing Ability Journal of Vision. 17: 617-617. DOI: 10.1167/17.10.617  0.377
2017 Balas B, Schmidt J. Children's use of visual summary-statistics for material recognition Journal of Vision. 17: 1080-1080. DOI: 10.1167/17.10.1080  0.339
2017 Pearson H, Balas B. Factors that do and don't make flashing faces more distorted Journal of Vision. 17: 1025-1025. DOI: 10.1167/17.10.1025  0.372
2017 Short LA, Balas B, Wilson C. The effect of educational environment on identity recognition and perceptions of within-person variability Visual Cognition. 25: 940-948. DOI: 10.1080/13506285.2017.1360974  0.453
2017 Balas B, Pearson H. Intra- and extra-personal variability in person recognition Visual Cognition. 25: 456-469. DOI: 10.1080/13506285.2016.1274809  0.543
2017 Balas B, Pacella J. Trustworthiness perception is disrupted in artificial faces Computers in Human Behavior. 77: 240-248. DOI: 10.1016/J.Chb.2017.08.045  0.554
2016 Balas B, Grant C. Individual differences in lifetime face exposure predict behavioral and neural responses to faces. Electronic Imaging. 2016: 1-6. DOI: 10.2352/Issn.2470-1173.2016.16.Hvei-116  0.434
2016 Saville A, Balas B. The influence of hometown population on the relationship between face memory and holistic processing Journal of Vision. 16: 914-914. DOI: 10.1167/16.12.914  0.351
2016 Pearson H, Balas B. Telling people apart and telling people together with face and body information Journal of Vision. 16: 739-739. DOI: 10.1167/16.12.739  0.392
2016 Grant C, Balas B. An other-age effect in facial trustworthiness perception Journal of Vision. 16: 496-496. DOI: 10.1167/16.12.496  0.357
2016 Schmidt J, Auen A, Balas B. Body emotion recognition depends on vertical orientation subbands during middle childhood Journal of Vision. 16: 1409-1409. DOI: 10.1167/16.12.1409  0.348
2015 Balas B, Thomas L. Competition makes faces look more aggressive. Journal of Vision. 15: 1217. PMID 26326905 DOI: 10.1167/15.12.1217  0.398
2015 Schmidt J, Balas B. Orientation biases for facial emotion recognition in early childhood and adulthood. Journal of Vision. 15: 135. PMID 26325823 DOI: 10.1167/15.12.135  0.379
2015 Balas B, Huynh C, Saville A, Schmidt J. Orientation biases for facial emotion recognition during childhood and adulthood. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. 140: 171-83. PMID 26247810 DOI: 10.1016/j.jecp.2015.07.006  0.48
2015 Balas BJ, Schmidt J, Saville A. A face detection bias for horizontal orientations develops in middle childhood. Frontiers in Psychology. 6: 772. PMID 26106349 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00772  0.509
2015 Balas B, Thomas LE. Competition makes observers remember faces as more aggressive. Journal of Experimental Psychology. General. 144: 711-716. PMID 26010482 DOI: 10.1037/xge0000078  0.456
2015 Balas B, Saville A. N170 face specificity and face memory depend on hometown size. Neuropsychologia. 69: 211-7. PMID 25659502 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2015.02.005  0.459
2015 Balas B, Saville A. N170 face specificity and face memory depend on hometown size. Neuropsychologia. 69: 211-7. PMID 25659502 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2015.02.005  0.459
2015 Balas B, Peissig J, Moulson M. Children (but not adults) judge similarity in own- and other-race faces by the color of their skin. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. 130: 56-66. PMID 25462031 DOI: 10.1016/j.jecp.2014.09.009  0.754
2015 Sun HM, Balas B. Face features and face configurations both contribute to visual crowding. Attention, Perception & Psychophysics. 77: 508-19. PMID 25341649 DOI: 10.3758/s13414-014-0786-0  0.551
2015 Sun HM, Balas B. Face features and face configurations both contribute to visual crowding Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics. 77: 508-519. DOI: 10.3758/s13414-014-0786-0  0.451
2015 Balas BJ, Schmidt J, Saville A. A face detection bias for horizontal orientations develops in middle childhood Frontiers in Psychology. 6. DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00772  0.335
2015 Balas B, Conlin C. The visual N1 is sensitive to deviations from natural texture appearance Plos One. 10. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0136471  0.383
2015 Saville A, Balas B. Hometown population influences the N170 response to faces Journal of Vision. 15: 686. DOI: 10.1167/15.12.686  0.366
2015 Balas B. Texture synthesis models and material perception in the visual periphery Proceedings of Spie - the International Society For Optical Engineering. 9394. DOI: 10.1117/12.2084320  0.372
2015 Balas B, Huynh CM. Face and body emotion recognition depend on different orientation sub-bands Visual Cognition. 23: 659-677. DOI: 10.1080/13506285.2015.1077912  0.454
2015 Balas B, Conlin C. Invariant texture perception is harder with synthetic textures: Implications for models of texture processing Vision Research. 115: 271-279. DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2015.01.022  0.348
2014 Balas B, Woods R. Infant Preference for Natural Texture Statistics is Modulated by Contrast Polarity. Infancy : the Official Journal of the International Society On Infant Studies. 19: 262-280. PMID 26161044 DOI: 10.1111/infa.12050  0.363
2014 Balas B, Tonsager C. Face animacy is not all in the eyes: Evidence from contrast chimeras Perception. 43: 355-367. PMID 25109004 DOI: 10.1068/p7696  0.536
2014 Huynh CM, Balas B. Emotion recognition (sometimes) depends on horizontal orientations. Attention, Perception & Psychophysics. 76: 1381-92. PMID 24664854 DOI: 10.3758/s13414-014-0669-4  0.452
2014 Koldewyn K, Hanus P, Balas B. Visual adaptation of the perception of "life": animacy is a basic perceptual dimension of faces. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. 21: 969-75. PMID 24323739 DOI: 10.3758/s13423-013-0562-5  0.556
2014 Balas B, Stevenson K. Children's neural response to contrast-negated faces is species specific Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. 119: 73-86. PMID 24309247 DOI: 10.1016/j.jecp.2013.10.010  0.55
2014 Kuylen C, Balas B, Thomas LE. My shadow, myself: cast-body shadows are embodied. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. 21: 676-81. PMID 24243137 DOI: 10.3758/s13423-013-0545-6  0.315
2014 Weigelt S, Koldewyn K, Dilks DD, Balas B, McKone E, Kanwisher N. Domain-specific development of face memory but not face perception. Developmental Science. 17: 47-58. PMID 24118764 DOI: 10.1111/desc.12089  0.63
2014 Huynh C, Tonsager C, Balas B. The inversion effect as a function of orientation information in emotional face and body recognition Journal of Vision. 14: 567-567. DOI: 10.1167/14.10.567  0.434
2014 Balas B, Conlin C. Early visual ERP components are sensitive to natural texture appearance Journal of Vision. 14: 1431-1431. DOI: 10.1167/14.10.1431  0.338
2014 Conlin C, Balas B. Invariant texture recognition depends on high-order statistics Journal of Vision. 14: 1424-1424. DOI: 10.1167/14.10.1424  0.361
2014 Kuylen C, Balas B, Thomas L. Both own and other object shadows compress perceived distance Journal of Vision. 14: 142-142. DOI: 10.1167/14.10.142  0.303
2014 Tonsager C, Balas B. The effect of contrast negation on real/artificial face discrimination Journal of Vision. 14: 1402-1402. DOI: 10.1167/14.10.1402  0.523
2014 Saville A, Huynh C, Balas B. Face animacy does not impact the N170 inversion effect Journal of Vision. 14: 127-127. DOI: 10.1167/14.10.127  0.415
2013 Balas B, Koldewyn K. Early visual ERP sensitivity to the species and animacy of faces. Neuropsychologia. 51: 2876-81. PMID 24041668 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2013.09.014  0.557
2013 Balas B, Stevenson K. Species-specific effects of pigmentation negation on the neural response to faces Neuropsychologia. 51: 1794-1801. PMID 23792327 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2013.05.022  0.513
2013 Balas B, Koldewyn K. Face animacy perception is species-specific Journal of Vision. 13: 991-991. DOI: 10.1167/13.9.991  0.441
2012 Sun HM, Balas B. The influence of flankers on race categorization of faces Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics. 74: 1654-1667. PMID 22825930 DOI: 10.3758/s13414-012-0350-8  0.54
2012 Balas B, Horski J. You can take the eyes out of the doll, but.. Perception. 41: 361-364. PMID 22808589 DOI: 10.1068/p7166  0.405
2012 Balas B, Valente N. View-adaptation reveals coding of face pose along image, not object, axes Vision Research. 67: 22-27. PMID 22796427 DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2012.07.002  0.533
2012 Balas B. Bayesian face recognition and perceptual narrowing in face-space Developmental Science. 15: 579-588. PMID 22709406 DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7687.2012.01154.x  0.563
2012 Rosenholtz R, Huang J, Raj A, Balas BJ, Ilie L. A summary statistic representation in peripheral vision explains visual search. Journal of Vision. 12. PMID 22523401 DOI: 10.1167/12.4.14  0.332
2012 Balas B, Kanwisher N, Saxe R. Thin-slice perception develops slowly. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. 112: 257-64. PMID 22417920 DOI: 10.1016/j.jecp.2012.01.002  0.532
2012 Sun H, Balas B. Chinese-reading expertise leads to holistic crowding between faces and Chinese characters Journal of Vision. 12: 342-342. DOI: 10.1167/12.9.342  0.433
2012 Stevenson K, Mangini M, Balas B. Luminance and Chromatic Negation equally affect Human and Monkey Face Recognition in Adulthood and Early Childhood Journal of Vision. 12: 24-24. DOI: 10.1167/12.9.24  0.482
2011 Moulson MC, Balas B, Nelson C, Sinha P. EEG correlates of categorical and graded face perception. Neuropsychologia. 49: 3847-53. PMID 22001852 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2011.09.046  0.81
2011 Balas B, Moulson MC. Developing a side bias for conspecific faces during childhood. Developmental Psychology. 47: 1472-8. PMID 21767012 DOI: 10.1037/a0024494  0.771
2011 Balas B, Westerlund A, Hung K, Nelson CA. Shape, color and the other-race effect in the infant brain Developmental Science. 14: 892-900. PMID 21676108 DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7687.2011.01039.x  0.58
2011 Balas B, Raj A, Rosenholtz R. A summary-statistic model of the visual periphery predicts the difficulty of visual curve tracing Journal of Vision. 11: 1207-1207. DOI: 10.1167/11.11.1207  0.306
2010 Balas B. Using innate visual biases to guide face learning in natural scenes: A computational investigation Developmental Science. 13: 469-478. PMID 20443967 DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7687.2009.00901.x  0.513
2010 Balas BJ, Nelson CA, Westerlund A, Vogel-Farley V, Riggins T, Kuefner D. Personal familiarity influences the processing of upright and inverted faces in infants. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. 4: 1. PMID 20204154 DOI: 10.3389/Neuro.09.001.2010  0.608
2010 Balas B, Nelson CA. The role of face shape and pigmentation in other-race face perception: an electrophysiological study. Neuropsychologia. 48: 498-506. PMID 19836406 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2009.10.007  0.658
2010 Aflaki P, Nelson C, Balas B, Pomahac B. Simulated central face transplantation: age consideration in matching donors and recipients Journal of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery. 63: e283-e285. PMID 19748842 DOI: 10.1016/J.Bjps.2009.08.013  0.462
2010 Pomahac B, Aflaki P, Nelson C, Balas B. Evaluation of appearance transfer and persistence in central face transplantation: A computer simulation analysis Journal of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery. 63: 733-738. PMID 19398394 DOI: 10.1016/J.Bjps.2009.01.078  0.547
2010 Raj A, Rosenholtz R, Balas B. Texture processing model visualizes perception of Pinna-Gregory illusion Journal of Vision. 9: 990-990. DOI: 10.1167/9.8.990  0.362
2010 Nakano L, Rosenholtz R, Balas B. A texture-perception model of crowding for general stimuli, Version 1.0 Journal of Vision. 8: 433-433. DOI: 10.1167/8.6.433  0.337
2010 Balas B, Sinha P. Does the visual system extract "keyframes" from dynamic object sequences? Journal of Vision. 7: 91-91. DOI: 10.1167/7.9.91  0.564
2010 Balas B, Sinha P. Learning about objects in motion: Better generalization and sensitivity through temporal association Journal of Vision. 6: 318-318. DOI: 10.1167/6.6.318  0.553
2010 Rosenholtz R, Balas BJ, Raj A, Nakano L, Ilie L. The Visual System as Statistician: Statistical Representation in Early Vision Journal of Vision. 10: 23-23. DOI: 10.1167/10.7.23  0.337
2009 Balas BJ, Sinha P. The role of sequence order in determining view canonicality for novel wire-frame objects. Attention, Perception & Psychophysics. 71: 712-23. PMID 19429954 DOI: 10.3758/APP.71.4.712  0.602
2009 Balas B, Sinha P. A speed-dependent inversion effect in dynamic object matching. Journal of Vision. 9: 16.1-13. PMID 19271926 DOI: 10.1167/9.2.16  0.634
2009 Balas B, Sinha P. Learned prediction affects body perception Visual Cognition. 17: 679-699. DOI: 10.1080/13506280802327866  0.599
2008 Balas B, Sinha P. Observing object motion induces increased generalization and sensitivity. Perception. 37: 1160-74. PMID 18853553 DOI: 10.1068/p6000  0.609
2007 Balas BJ, Sinha P. Portraits and perception: configural information in creating and recognizing face images. Spatial Vision. 21: 119-35. PMID 18073054 DOI: 10.1163/156856807782753949  0.695
2007 Balas B, Cox D, Conwell E. The effect of real-world personal familiarity on the speed of face information processing Plos One. 2. PMID 18030351 DOI: 10.1371/Journal.Pone.0001223  0.518
2007 Sinha P, Balas B, Ostrovsky Y. Discovering faces in infancy Journal of Vision. 7: 569-569. DOI: 10.1167/7.9.569  0.774
2007 Balas B, Sinha P. "Filling-in" colour in natural scenes Visual Cognition. 15: 765-778. DOI: 10.1080/13506280701295453  0.608
2006 Balas BJ, Sinha P. Receptive field structures for recognition. Neural Computation. 18: 497-520. PMID 16483405 DOI: 10.1162/089976606775623315  0.606
2006 Balas BJ. Texture synthesis and perception: using computational models to study texture representations in the human visual system. Vision Research. 46: 299-309. PMID 15964047 DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2005.04.013  0.36
2006 Balas BJ, Sinha P. Region-based representations for face recognition Acm Transactions On Applied Perception. 3: 354-375. DOI: 10.1145/1190036.1190038  0.65
2006 Sinha P, Balas B, Ostrovsky Y, Russell R. Face recognition by humans: Nineteen results all computer vision researchers should know about Proceedings of the Ieee. 94: 1948-1961. DOI: 10.1109/JPROC.2006.884093  0.759
2005 Sinha P, Balas B, Ostrovsky Y. Project DYLAN: Modeling the development of visual object concepts Journal of Vision. 5: 737-737. DOI: 10.1167/5.8.737  0.684
2005 Balas BJ, Sinha P. Motion-based orienting, segmenting and tracking in a model of object learning Journal of Vision. 5: 1052-1052. DOI: 10.1167/5.8.1052  0.554
2004 Balas BJ, Jameson M, Sinha P. The illusion of 'pan-field' color Journal of Vision. 4: 161-161. DOI: 10.1167/4.8.161  0.544
2003 Balas BJ, Sinha P. STICKS: Image-representation via non-local comparisons Journal of Vision. 3: 12a. DOI: 10.1167/3.9.12  0.562
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