معرفی
Hans Op de Beeck is a full professor at KU Leuven's Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences. He chairs the Brain and Cognition research unit within the Laboratory for Biological Psychology and is a member of the KU Leuven Brain Institute. His work bridges cognitive neuroscience, visual perception, and computational modeling approaches to understand human visual cognition.
Professor Op de Beeck's research focuses on visual cognition, particularly object recognition, category selectivity, and the neural organization of the visual system. His work combines multiple methodologies including fMRI, computational modeling, and behavioral experiments to investigate how the brain processes visual information. His research spans basic visual neuroscience to applied domains like aesthetic appreciation and social scene processing.
His recent publications demonstrate a strong trend toward integrating computational approaches with human neuroscience. The research spans visual category representation, social cognition, aesthetic processing, and cross-modal plasticity. A notable pattern is the increasing use of artificial neural networks to model and understand human visual processing, as well as the exploration of visual expertise in various domains including Braille reading and chess expertise.
Professor Op de Beeck is actively involved in numerous research projects as both promotor and co-promotor, with ongoing work spanning from 2022 to 2030. His laboratory, the Brain and Cognition unit, investigates the fundamental principles of visual processing and their applications in understanding both typical and atypical cognitive functioning.
