Publications
JOURNAL ARTICLES
Balas, B. & Valente, N. (2012) View-adaptation reveals coding of face pose along image, not object, axes. Vision Research, 67, 22-27.
Sun, H-M. & Balas, B. (2012) The Influence of Flankers on the Categorization of Racially Ambiguous Faces, Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics.
Balas, B., & Horski, J. (2012) You can take the eyes out of the doll, but…, Perception, 41(3), 361-364.
Rosenholtz, R., Huang, J., Raj, A, Balas, B., & Ile, L. (2012) A Summary-Statistic Representation in Peripheral Vision Explains Visual Search, Journal of Vision, 12(4), 14.
Balas, B. (2012) Bayesian face recognition and perceptual narrowing. Developmental Science, 15(4), 579-588.
Balas, B., Kanwisher, N.G., & Saxe, R. (2012) Thin-slice perception develops slowly. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 112, 257-264.
Moulson, M., Balas, B., Nelson, C., & Sinha, P. (2011) EEG correlates of categorical and graded face perception. Neuropsychologia, 49, 3847-3853.
Balas, B. & Moulson, M. (2011) Developing a side-bias for conspecific faces during childhood. Developmental Psychology, 47, 1472-1478.
Balas, B., Westerlund, A., Hung, K. & Nelson, C.A. (2011) Shape, color, and the other-race effect in the infant brain. Developmental Science, 14, 892-900.
Balas, B., Nelson, C., Westerlund, A., Vogel, V., De Boer, T. (2010) Personal familiarity influences the processing of upright and inverted faces in infants, Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 4(1), 1-5.
Balas, B., Nelson, C.A. (2010) The role of face shape and pigmentation in other-race face perception: An electrophysiological study. Neuropsychologia, 48, 498-506.
Aflaki, P., Pohomac, B., Balas, B., Nelson, C.A. (2010) Simulated central face transplantation: Age considerations in matching donors and recipients. Journal of Plastic, Reconstructive, & Aesthetic Surgery, 63, 283-285.
Balas, B. (2010) Using innate visual biases to guide face learning in natural scenes: A computational investigation. Developmental Science, 13, 469-478.
Pohomac, B., Aflaki, P., Nelson, C.A., Balas, B., (2010) Evaluation of appearance transfer and persistence in central face transplantation: a computer simulation analysis. Journal of Plastic, Reconstructive, and Aesthetic Surgery, 63, 733-738.
Balas, B., Nakano, L. & Rosenholtz, R. (2009) A summary-statistical model of peripheral vision explains visual crowding, Journal of Vision, 9(12:13), 1-9.
Balas, B., & Sinha, P. (2009) A speed-dependent inversion effect in dynamic object matching. Journal of Vision, 9(2):16, 1-13.
Balas, B. & Sinha, P. (2009) The role of sequence order in determining view canonicality for novel wire-frame objects, Attention, Perception & Psychophysics, 71, 712-723.
Balas, B. & Sinha, P. (2008) Learned prediction affects body perception, Visual Cognition, 17, 679-699.
Balas, B. & Sinha, P. (2008) Observing object motion induces increased generalization and sensitivity, Perception, 37(8), 1160-1174.
Balas, B. (2008) Attentive texture similarity as a categorization task: Comparing texture synthesis models. Pattern Recognition, 41(3), 972-982.
Balas, B. & Sinha, P. (2007) “Filling-in” color in natural scenes. Visual Cognition, 15(7), 765-778.
Balas, B. & Sinha, P. (2007) Portraits and Perception: Configural Information in Recognizing and Creating Face Images. Spatial Vision. 21(1-2), 119-135.
Balas, B., Cox, D. & Conwell, E. (2007) The Effect of Real-World Personal Familiarity on the Speed of Face Information Processing. PLoS:ONE, 2(11), e1223.
Balas, B. (2006) Texture Synthesis and Perception: Using Computational Models to Study Texture Representations in the Human Visual System. Vision Research, 46, 299-309.
Balas, B. & Sinha, P. (2006) Receptive Field Structures for Recognition. Neural Computation, 18(3), 497-520.
Balas, B. & Sinha, P. (2006) Region-based representations for face recognition, ACM Transactions on Applied Perception, 3(4), 354-375.
Sinha, P., Balas, B., Ostrovsky, Y. & Russell, R. (2006) Face Recognition by Humans: 19 Results all Computer Vision Researchers Should Know About. Proceedings of the IEEE,1948-1962.
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
Balas, B. (2011) Single-trial ERP classification and face perception. 2011 Central Regional IDeA Conference, Abstract for Symposium presentation. Omaha, NE.
Balas, B., Raj, A., & Rosenholtz, R. (2011) A summary-statistic model of the visual periphery predicts the difficulty of visual curve tracing, Abstract for poster presentation, 2011 Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society.
Raj, A., Rosenholtz, R., & Balas, B. (2011) Collinearity and Containment Grouping have Different Effects on Object Substitution Masking, Abstract for poster presentation, 2011 Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society.
Balas, B., Kanwisher, N.G., & Saxe, R. (2011) Visual Social Perception Develops Slowly, Abstract for poster presentation, Society for Research in Child Development, Montreal, Quebec.
Balas, B.J., Rosenholtz, R., Raj, A.R. (2010) Beyond texture processing: further implications of statistical representations. Abstract for symposium talk, 2010 Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society.
Rosenholtz, R., Balas, B.J., Raj, A.R., Nakano, L., Ilie, L. (2010) The visual system as statistician: Statistical representation in early vision, Abstract for symposium talk, 2010 Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society.
Rosenholtz, R., Ilie, L. & Balas, B. (2010) An Ideal Saccadic Targeting Model Acting on Pooled Summary Statistics Predicts Visual Search Performance, Abstract for platform presentation, 2010 Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society.
Balas, B. & Nelson, C.A. (2010) How infants and adults use face shape and color to process race. Paper Symposium talk, 2010 Meeting of the International Conference on Infant Studies.
Congdon, E., Shutts, K., Westerlund, A., Balas, B., & Nelson, C.A. (2010) Infants' Processing of Same vs. Other-Species Faces: Insights from Eye-tracking, 2010 Meeting of the International Conference on Infant Studies.
Balas, B. & Rosenholtz, R. (2009) Visual Crowding as Texture Perception: Analysis and Synthesis, 13th International Conference on Cognitive & Neural Systems. Boston, MA.
Balas, B. (2009) Using innate visual biases to guide face learning in natural scenes: A computational investigation, 2009 Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Naples, FL.
Rosenholtz, R., Chan, S., & Balas, B. (2009) A crowded model of visual search, Abstract for platform presentation, 2009 Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Naples, FL.
Raj, A., Rosenholtz, R., & Balas, B. (2009) A texture processing model visualizes perception of Pinna-Gregory illusion, Abstract for poster presentation, 2009 Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Naples, FL.
Balas, B. & Nelson, C.A. (2009) ERP Correlates of Other-Race Face Perception in 9-Month-Old Infants, Abstract for poster presentation, Society for Research in Child Development, Denver, CO.
Balas, B., Shutts, K.B., Westerlund, A. & Nelson, C.A. (2009) Complementarity Between NIRS and ERPs in Investigations of Infant Face Processing, Symposium Presentation, Society for Research in Child Development, Denver, CO.
Moulson, M.C. & Balas, B. (2009) Qualitative Differences Between Own- and Other-Species Face Processing in Children, Abstract for poster presentation, Society for Research in Child Development, Denver, CO.
Morash, V. & Balas, B. (2008) Invariance in haptic object recognition, Abstract for platform presentation, 2008 European Conference on Visual Perception, Utrecht.
Balas, B. & Sinha, P. (2008) A speed-dependent inversion effect in dynamic object matching. Abstract for platform presentation, 2008 Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Naples, FL.
Nakano, L., Rosenholtz, R. & Balas, B. (2008) A Texture-Perception Model of Crowding for General Stimuli, Version 1.0. Abstract for poster presentation, 2008 Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Naples, FL.
Moulson, M., Balas, B., Nelson, C. & Sinha, P. (2008) EEG correlates of categorical and graded face perception. Abstract for platform presentation, 2008 Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Naples, FL.
Balas, B. & Sinha, P. (2007) Does the visual system extract “keyframes” from dynamic sequences? Abstract for platform presentation, 2007 Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Sarasota, FL.
Sinha, P., Balas, B. & Ostrovsky, Y. (2007) Discovering faces in infancy, Abstract for platform presentation, 2007 Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Sarasota, FL.
Balas, B. & Sinha, P. (2007) Interactions between prior knowledge and recent experience in the perception of dynamic objects, OPAM, Long Beach, CA.
Balas, B. (2006) “Learning about dynamic objects and recognizing static form.” MIT Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Cog Lunch Series.
Balas, B. & Sinha, P. (2006) Learning about objects in motion: Better generalization and sensitivity through temporal association. Abstract for poster presentation, 2006 Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Sarasota, FL.
Balas, B. & Sinha, P. (2005) Motion-based orienting, segmenting and tracking in a model of object learning. Abstract for platform presentation, 2005 Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society. Sarasota, FL.
Sinha, P., Balas, B. & Ostrovsky, Y. (2005) Project DYLAN: Modeling the development of visual object concepts. Abstract for poster presentation, 2005 Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society. Sarasota, FL.
Balas, B. (2005) “Texture synthesis as a tool for understanding texture perception.” Harvard University, Department of Psychology, Cognition, Brain and Behavior Series.
Balas, B., Jameson, M. & Sinha, P. (2004) The illusion of 'pan-field' color. Abstract for platform presentation, 2004 Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Sarasota, FL.
Balas, B. (2004) “Color spreading in natural scenes: image statistics and 'pan-field' color.” MIT Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Cog Lunch Series.
Balas, B. & Sinha, P. (2004) Sticks: a non-local vocabulary for image representation. Abstract for poster presentation, Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA.
Balas, B. (2003) “Dissociated Dipoles: non-local comparisons for object and face recognition.” MIT Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Cog Lunch Series.
Balas, B. & Sinha, P. (2003) STICKS: Image representation via non-local comparisons. Abstract for platform presentation, 2003 Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Sarasota, FL.
Peretti, J. H., Balas, B. & Smith, B. (2001) Teacher's LAB: Using curricular materials to promote collaboration. Abstract for poster presentation, 2001 European Conference for Computer Supported Collaborative Learning.