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Overview

Hans Op de Beeck is affiliated with the Allen Institute for Brain Science in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the field of Neuroscience, with a significant concentration in Cognitive Neuroscience. The scope of their work also extends into Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Social Psychology, Developmental and Educational Psychology, and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience.

The main topics addressed in their research include Face Recognition and Perception, Neural dynamics and brain function, Visual perception and processing mechanisms, Visual Attention and Saliency Detection, Memory and Neural Mechanisms, Action Observation and Synchronization, and Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research.

The scientist has contributed extensively to several publication venues, most notably 18 papers in bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) and 18 in the Journal of Vision. Other frequent venues include Scientific Reports with 4 publications, Journal of Neuroscience with 3, and Nature Communications also with 3 publications.

Hans Op de Beeck's recent scholarly works include the following papers:

  • Understanding Human Object Vision: A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Representations, 2022, Annual Review of Psychology
  • Orthogonal Representations of Object Shape and Category in Deep Convolutional Neural Networks and Human Visual Cortex, 2020, Scientific Reports
  • Untangling the Animacy Organization of Occipitotemporal Cortex, 2021, Journal of Neuroscience
  • Cognitive correlates of dyslexia, dyscalculia and comorbid dyslexia/dyscalculia: Effects of numerical magnitude processing and phonological processing, 2020, Research in Developmental Disabilities
  • Temporal stability of stimulus representation increases along rodent visual cortical hierarchies, 2021, Nature Communications

Their research collaborations include frequent co-authors such as Stefania Bracci with 19 joint works, Astrid Zeman with 10, Elahe' Yargholi with 9, Kasper Vinken with 8, and Haemy Lee Masson with 7 co-authored publications.

Best Publications

  • Figure-ground perception in the awake mouse and neuronal activity elicited by figure-ground stimuli in primary visual cortex

    Ulf H. Schnabel;Christophe Bossens;Jeannette A. M. Lorteije;Matthew W. Self

  • Intact but less Accessible Phonetic Representations in Adults with Dyslexia

    Bart Boets;Hans P. Op de Beeck;Maaike Vandermosten;Sophie K. Scott

  • Inferotemporal neurons represent low-dimensional configurations of parameterized shapes.

    Hans Op de Beeck;Johan Wagemans;Rufin Vogels

  • Interpreting fMRI data: maps, modules and dimensions

    Hans P. Op de Beeck;Johannes Haushofer;Nancy G. Kanwisher

  • Spatial sensitivity of macaque inferior temporal neurons

    Hans Op De Beeck;Rufin Vogels

  • Deep Neural Networks as a Computational Model for Human Shape Sensitivity

    Jonas Kubilius;Stefania Bracci;Hans P. Op de Beeck

  • Discrimination training alters object representations in human extrastriate cortex.

    Hans P. Op de Beeck;Chris I. Baker;James J. DiCarlo;Nancy G. Kanwisher

  • Against hyperacuity in brain reading: Spatial smoothing does not hurt multivariate fMRI analyses?

    Hans P. Op de Beeck

  • Dissociations and Associations between Shape and Category Representations in the Two Visual Pathways.

    Stefania Bracci;Hans Op de Beeck

  • Perceived Shape Similarity among Unfamiliar Objects and the Organization of the Human Object Vision Pathway

    Hans P. Op de Beeck;Katrien Torfs;Johan Wagemans

  • Feedback of visual object information to foveal retinotopic cortex.

    Mark A Williams;Mark A Williams;Chris I Baker;Hans P Op de Beeck;Won Mok Shim;Won Mok Shim

  • A preference for contralateral stimuli in human object- and face-selective cortex.

    Christopher C. Hemond;Nancy G. Kanwisher;Hans P. Op de Beeck;Hans P. Op de Beeck

  • Development of visual category selectivity in ventral visual cortex does not require visual experience

    Job van den Hurk;Job van den Hurk;Marc Van Baelen;Marc Van Baelen;Hans P. Op de Beeck

  • Tuning for shape dimensions in macaque inferior temporal cortex.

    Greet Kayaert;Irving Biederman;Hans P. Op de Beeck;Rufin Vogels

  • Task Context Overrules Object- and Category-Related Representational Content in the Human Parietal Cortex

    Stefania Bracci;Nicky Daniels;Hans Op de Beeck

  • Sex differences in human virtual water maze performance: novel measures reveal the relative contribution of directional responding and spatial knowledge.

    Daniel G. Woolley;Ben Vermaercke;Hans Op de Beeck;Johan Wagemans

  • The neural basis of visual object learning.

    Hans P. Op de Beeck;Chris I. Baker

  • The Ventral Visual Pathway Represents Animal Appearance over Animacy, Unlike Human Behavior and Deep Neural Networks.

    Stefania Bracci;J. Brendan Ritchie;Ioannis Kalfas;Hans P. Op de Beeck

  • The effect of category learning on the representation of shape: dimensions can be biased but not differentiated.

    Hans Op de Beeck;Johan Wagemans;Rufin Vogels

  • On the partnership between neural representations of object categories and visual features in the ventral visual pathway

    Stefania Bracci;J. Brendan Ritchie;Hans Op de Beeck

  • A Stable Topography of Selectivity for Unfamiliar Shape Classes in Monkey Inferior Temporal Cortex

    Hans P. Op de Beeck;Hans P. Op de Beeck;Jennifer A. Deutsch;Wim Vanduffel;Wim Vanduffel;Nancy G. Kanwisher;Nancy G. Kanwisher

Frequent Co-Authors

Bert De Smedt
Bert De Smedt KU Leuven
Rufin Vogels
Rufin Vogels KU Leuven
Bart Boets
Bart Boets KU Leuven
Chris I. Baker
Chris I. Baker National Institutes of Health
Rudi D'Hooge
Rudi D'Hooge KU Leuven
Dante Mantini
Dante Mantini KU Leuven

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