Author

Benjamin F. van Buren

Observed names: B. van Buren, Benjamin van Buren, Van Buren, Benjamin, van Buren, Benjamin

Institution: The New School

Observed institutions: The New School, Yale University, University of Pennsylvania

ORCID: 0000-0002-2457-6771

Observed ORCID: 0000-0002-2457-6771

OpenAlex ID: A5030585760

Minds in motion in memory: Enhanced spatial memory driven by the perceived animacy of simple shapes

2017 · Benjamin van Buren, Brian J. Scholl · Cognition · 55

The automaticity of perceiving animacy: Goal-directed motion in simple shapes influences visuomotor behavior even when task-irrelevant

2015 · Benjamin van Buren, Stefan Uddenberg, et al. · Psychonomic Bulletin & Review · 47

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Intentionally distracting: Working memory is disrupted by the perception of other agents attending to you — even without eye-gaze cues

2018 · Clara Colombatto, Benjamin van Buren, et al. · Psychonomic Bulletin & Review · 29

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What are the underlying units of perceived animacy? Chasing detection is intrinsically object-based

2017 · Benjamin van Buren, Tao Gao, et al. · Psychonomic Bulletin & Review · 27

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Changes in painting styles of two artists with Alzheimer's disease.

2013 · Benjamin van Buren, Bianca Bromberger, et al. · Psychology of Aesthetics Creativity and the Arts · 25

May the force be against you: Better visual sensitivity to speed changes opposite to gravity.

2023 · Hong B. Nguyen, Benjamin van Buren · Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance · 14

Visual Illusions as a Tool for Dissociating Seeing From Thinking: A Reply to Braddick (2018)

2018 · Benjamin van Buren, Brian J. Scholl · Perception · 14

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Gazing Without Eyes: A “Stare-in-the-Crowd” Effect Induced by Simple Geometric Shapes

2020 · Clara Colombatto, Benjamin van Buren, et al. · Perception · 10

When Scenes Look Like Materials: René Magritte’s Reversible Figure–Ground Motif

2020 · J. Brendan Ritchie, Benjamin van Buren · Art & Perception · 10

The Blindfold Test: Helping to decide whether an effect reflects visual processing or higher-level judgment

2024 · Benjamin F. van Buren, Brian J. Scholl · Attention Perception & Psychophysics · 9

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Paranoid and teleological thinking give rise to distinct social hallucinations in vision

2024 · Santiago Castiello, Joan Danielle K. Ongchoco, et al. · Communications Psychology · 8

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Hidden intentions: Visual awareness prioritizes perceived attention even without eyes or faces

2021 · Clara Colombatto, Benjamin van Buren, et al. · Cognition · 7

Rotating objects cue spatial attention via the perception of frictive surface contact

2023 · Hong B. Nguyen, Benjamin van Buren · Cognition · 3

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Event representations omit stretches of time

2020 · Benjamin van Buren, J. Brendan Ritchie, et al. · Journal of Vision · 3

The 'Blindfold Test' for Deciding whether an Effect Reflects Visual Processing or Higher-Level Judgment

2018 · Benjamin van Buren, Brian Scholl · Journal of Vision · 3

What are the underlying units of perceived animacy?: Chasing detection is intrinsically object-based

2016 · Benjamin van Buren, Tao Gao, et al. · Journal of Vision · 3

The sound of shininess: Cross-modal influence of auditory pitch on the perception of gloss

2024 · Silas Choudhury, Hong B. Nguyen, et al. · Journal of Vision · 1

Attentional Transplants for Industrial Applications

2024 · Hong B. Nguyen, Benjamin van Buren · IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces Abstracts and Workshops (VRW) · 1

Spatial cueing of attention by rotational motion

2024 · Hong B Nguyen, Benjamin van Buren · 1

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Who's chasing whom?: Changing background motion reverses impressions of chasing in perceived animacy

2017 · Benjamin van Buren, Brian Scholl · Journal of Vision · 1

Perceived animacy influences other forms of visual processing: Improved sensitivity to the orientations of intentionally moving objects

2014 · B. van Buren, B. Scholl · Journal of Vision · 1

Visual information selected during active viewing is sufficient to drive similar aesthetic evaluations in passive viewers: Evidence from ‘attentional transplants’

2026 · Hong B Nguyen, Benjamin van Buren

Immediate Auditory Feedback Speeds Visuomotor Delay Adaptation in Video Games

2026 · Xuyuan Duan, Colleen Macklin, et al. · CHI Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA)

Holistic face processing drives impressions of humor in gender-incongruent composite faces: Evidence from experiments with Aligned, Misaligned and Inverted displays

2026 · Dunin, Didi, van Buren, Benjamin · OSF Preprints (OSF Preprints)

Do knots that appear to support more weight also appear smaller?

2026 · Pace, Marina, van Buren, Benjamin · Open Science Framework

Works count: 57

Citation count: 272

H-index: 9

I10-index: 9