Dr Ben Jennings
Lecturer in Psychology
Gaskell Building 208
- Email: ben.jennings@brunel.ac.uk
- Tel: +44 (0)1895 266491
Summary
My research is based in the field of human visual perception and predominately employs psychophysical and electrophysiological methods. A running theme in my research is the interaction of colour and luminance signals in the early visual system (for example, their influence on interocular suppression), through to high-level processing (for example, object recognition and visual working memory). In addition to basic research I am investigating the usefulness of traditional behavioral methods for monitoring the effectiveness of treatments in clinical populations with traumatic brain injuries and schizophrenia. I am also currently conducting a series of experiments that investigate emotion perception based on face stimuli, by employing both psychophysical and eye movement techniques.
Newest selected publications
Kingdom, F., Tomuma, S. and Jennings, B. (2020) 'Negative afterimages facilitate the detection of real images'. Vision Research, 170. pp. 25 - 34. ISSN: 0042-6989 Open Access Link
Schmidtmann, G., Jennings, BJ., Sandra, DA., Pollock, J. and Gold, I. (2020) 'The McGill Face Database: Validation and Insights Into the Recognition of Facial Expressions of Complex Mental States'. Perception, 49 (3). pp. 1 - 20. ISSN: 0301-0066 Open Access Link
Kingdom, F., Seulami, N., Jennings, B. and Georgeson, M. (2019) 'Interocular difference thresholds are mediated by binocular differencing not summing channels'. Journal of Vision, 19 (14). pp. 1 - 15. ISSN: 1534-7362 Open Access Link
Breuil, C., Jennings, B., Barthelme, S., Guyader, N. and Kingdom, F. (2019) 'Color improves edge classification in human vision'. PLoS Computational Biology, 15 (10). pp. 1 - 15. ISSN: 1553-734X Open Access Link
Beukema, S., Jennings, B., Olson, J. and Kingdom, F. (2019) 'The pupillary response to the unknown: Novelty versus familiarity'. i-Perception, 10 (5). pp. 1 - 12. ISSN: 2041-6695 Open Access Link