Ben van Buren
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Ben van Buren
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Assistant Professor of Psychology at The New School in NYC studying visual perception and cognition: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=99SDXHoAAAAJ&view_op=list_works&sortby=pubdate
A rich tradition in vision science emphasizes that we see the world not only in terms of its physical structure, but also in terms of its social and causal structure.

For example, even simple shapes look vividly alive if they move in particular ways (Heider & Simmel, 1944):
February 28, 2025 at 10:22 PM