Prof. Ben de Haas, PhD
Prof. Ben de Haas, PhD
Research Professor for Experimental Psychology & Individual Perception
Address:
Room 306
Otto-Behagel-Str. 10F
35394 Giessen, Germany
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Phone: +49 641 9926125
E-Mail: benjamin.de-haas
Personal Homepage: www.individual-perception.com
Research Interests
How does perception vary from one person to the next?
I use eye-tracking, neuroimaging and computational modeling to study the individual way we see the world. What do individual differences reveal about the visual brain? How is perception shaping who we are and how we interact with others?
Selected Publications
For a full list of publications, see my google scholar profile
For data and code accompanying papers, see my OSF repository
- Linka, M., Karimpur, H., & de Haas, B. (2025). Protracted development of gaze behaviour. Nature Human Behaviour, in press
- Borovska, P, de Haas, B (2024). Individual gaze shapes diverging neural representations. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 121(36) e2405602121
- Broda, M, de Haas, B (2024). Individual differences in human gaze behavior generalize from faces to objects. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 121(12), 11, e2322149121
- de Haas, B, Sereno, MI, Schwarzkopf, DS (2021). Inferior occipital gyrus is organised along common gradients of spatial and face-part selectivity. The Journal of Neuroscience, 41(25):5511-5521
- de Haas, B, Iakovidis AL, Schwarzkopf, DS, Gegenfurtner, KR (2019). Individual differences in visual salience vary along semantic dimensions. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 116(24), 11687-11692
Short Bio
I studied psychology at JLU and neuroscience at UCL (PhD with Geraint Rees, postdocs with Sam Schwarzkopf and Marty Sereno). In London, I specialised in brain imaging, while my family grew from n=2 to n=5. Back in Giessen, I studied individual eye movements with Karl Gegenfurtner, was awarded an ERC Starting Grant in 2019 and in 2023 appointed Prof (W2) for Experimental Psychology and Individual Perception. I was lucky enough to have great mentors and strive to pass on the joy of science to those working with me. Check out my personal homepage for more.