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Dr Ben J. Jennings

Faculty of Business and Social Sciences
Department of Psychology
School of Law, Social and Behavioural Sciences
Penrhyn Road

Senior Lecturer in Psychology

[email protected]

About

Before joining Kingston University, I was a Senior Lecturer in Psychology at Brunel. Prior to that I completed two post-doctoral fellowships. First at the University of Aberdeen, in the Martinovic Lab, then at McGill University, Montreal, in the Kingdom Lab.

I have a BSc in Physics (University of Leeds), an MSc in Computer Science (Birkbeck College, University of London) and a PhD in Visual Science (City St George’s, University of London).

My primary specialist area of research is visual perception in both healthy and clinical populations (e.g., Parkinson’s Disease, traumatic brain injury). I am interested in all stages of visual processing from the initial processing of colour and shapes, through to high-level visual cognition, e.g., face and natural scene perception, and how general visual performance can affect reading ability.

In addition to this I have research interests in mental health, psychopathology, e.g., depression, emotion perception, the interaction of ASD and ADHD, and also extreme personality traits and their relationship to mental and physical health.

I am a member of the Applied Vision Association and the Colour Group GB.

Publications

The empirical status of implicit emotion regulation in mood and anxiety disorders: a meta-analytic review

Dalton, Stefan Daniel Paul, Cooper, Holly, Jennings, Ben and Cheeta, Survjit, 2025, Journal of Affective Disorders (380) pp 256-269, Published

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Neural correlates of implicit emotion regulation in mood and anxiety disorders: an fMRI meta-analytic review

Dalton, Stefan Daniel Paul, Cooper, Holly, Jennings, Ben and Cheeta, Survjit, 2025, Scientific Reports (15), 1, Published

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The association between childhood trauma and emotion recognition is reduced or eliminated when controlling for alexithymia and psychopathy traits

Cooper, Holly, Jennings, Ben J., Kumari, Veena, Willard, Aiyana K. and Bennetts, Rachel J., 2024, Scientific Reports (14), Published

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Positive schizotypy and Motor Impulsivity correlate with response aberrations in ventral attention network during inhibitory control

Vanova, Martina, Ettinger, Ulrich, Aldridge-Waddon, Luke, Jennings, Ben, Norbury, Ray and Kumari, Veena, 2023, Cortex (169) pp 235-248, Published

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The discrimination of self from other as a component of empathy

Little, Charlotte, Solomonova, Elizaveta, Jordan, Maiya, Klein, Natalie, Jennings, Ben, Schmidtmann, Gunnar, Leos, Héctor and Gold, Ian, 2023, Emotion (23), 6 pp 1733-1780, Published

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Different symmetries, different mechanisms

Jennings, Ben J., Tseng, Tzu Wei Joy, Ouhnana, Marouane and Kingdom, Frederick A.A., 2023, Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics (85), 1 pp 166-173, Published

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Altered high-level chromatic perception in Parkinson's disease

Jennings, Ben, Nimuchwala, Salma, Kingdom, Frederick and Parton, Andrew, 2022, Perception (51), 1_suppl pp 143-143, Published

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The effects of face coverings, own-ethnicity biases, and attitudes on emotion recognition

Cooper, Holly, Brar, Amrit, Beyaztas, Hazel, Jennings, Ben J. and Bennetts, Rachel J., 2022, Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications (7), 1, Published

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Distinct neural signatures of schizotypy and psychopathy during visual word-nonword recognition

Vanova, Martina, Aldridge-Waddon, Luke, Norbury, Ray, Jennings, Ben, Puzzo, Ignazio and Kumari, Veena, 2022, Human Brain Mapping (43), 12 pp 3620-3632, Published

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Clarifying the roles of schizotypy and psychopathic traits in lexical decision performance

Vanova, Martina, Aldridge-Waddon, Luke, Jennings, Ben, Elbers, Leonie, Puzzo, Ignazio and Kumari, Veena, 2022, Schizophrenia Research: Cognition (27), Published

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Habitat disturbance alters color contrast and the detectability of cryptic and aposematic frogs

Barnett, James B., Varela, Brandon J., Jennings, Ben J., Lesbarrères, David, Pruitt, Jonathan N. and Green, David M., 2021, Behavioral Ecology (32), 5 pp 814-825, Published

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Reading skills deficits in people with mental illness: A systematic review and meta-analysis

Vanova, Martina, Aldridge-Waddon, Luke, Jennings, Ben, Puzzo, Ignazio and Kumari, Veena, 2021, European Psychiatry (64), 1, Published

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Negative afterimages facilitate the detection of real images

Kingdom, Frederick A.A., Touma, Samir and Jennings, Ben J., 2020, Vision Research (170) pp 25-34, Published

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The McGill Face Database: validation and insights into the recognition of facial expressions of complex mental states

Schmidtmann, Gunnar, Jennings, Ben J., Sandra, Dasha A., Pollock, Jordan and Gold, Ian, 2020, Perception (49), 3 pp 310-329, Published

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Interocular difference thresholds are mediated by binocular differencing, not summing, channels

Kingdom, Frederick A.A., Seulami, Nour M., Jennings, Ben J. and Georgeson, Mark A., 2019, Journal of Vision (19), 14, Published

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The pupillary response to the unknown: novelty versus familiarity

Beukema, Steve, Jennings, Ben J., Olson, Jay A. and Kingdom, Frederick A.A., 2019, i-Perception (10), 5, Published

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Detection of distortions in images of natural scenes in mild traumatic brain injury patients

Jennings, B. J., Schmidtmann, G., Wehbé, F., Kingdom, F. A.A. and Farivar, R., 2019, Vision Research (161) pp 12-17, Published

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Unmasking the dichoptic mask

Jennings, Ben J. and Kingdom, Frederick A.A., 2019, Journal of Vision (19), 6, Published

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Color improves edge classification in human vision

Breuil, Camille, Jennings, Ben J., Barthelmé, Simon, Guyader, Nathalie and Kingdom, Frederick A.A., 2019, PLoS Computational Biology (15), 10, Published

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Adaptation to interocular decorrelation

Kingdom, Frederick, Jennings, Ben and Georgeson, Mark, 2018, Journal of Vision (18), 10, Published

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Symmetry perception for patterns defined by color and luminance

Martinovic, Jasna, Jennings, Ben J., Makin, Alexis D.J., Bertamini, Marco and Angelescu, Ilinca, 2018, Journal of Vision (18), 8, Published

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Adaptation to interocular difference

Kingdom, Frederick A.A., Jennings, Ben J. and Georgeson, Mark A., 2018, Journal of Vision (18), 5, Published

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Emotional face perception and spatial frequency

Jennings, Ben, Yu, Yinan and Kingdom, Frederick, 2017, Journal of Vision (17), 10, Published

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The role of spatial frequency in emotional face classification

Jennings, Ben J., Yu, Yinan and Kingdom, Frederick A.A., 2017, Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics (79), 6 pp 1573-1577, Published

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Pupil dilation to illusory motion in peripheral drift images: perception versus reality

Beukema, Steve, Olson, Jay A., Jennings, Ben J. and Kingdom, Frederick A.A., 2017, Journal of Vision (17), 8, Published

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Chromatic blur perception in the presence of luminance contrast

Jennings, Ben J. and Kingdom, Frederick A.A., 2017, Vision Research (135) pp 34-42, Published

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Common contextual influences in ambiguous and rivalrous figures

Ouhnana, Marouane, Jennings, Ben J. and Kingdom, Frederick A.A., 2017, PLoS ONE (12), 5, Published

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Searching for radial symmetry

Jennings, Ben J. and Kingdom, Frederick A.A., 2017, i-Perception (8), 4, Published

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A binocular context exerts a similar influence on both binocular rivalry and ambiguous figure perception

Ouhnana, Marouane, Jennings, Ben and Kingdom, Frederick, 2016, Journal of Vision (16), 12, Published

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Chromatic blur perception in simple and complex stimul

Jennings, Ben, Li, Katrina and Kingdom, Frederick, 2016, Journal of Vision (16), 12, Published

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Combining S-cone and luminance signals adversely affects discrimination of objects within backgrounds

Jennings, Ben J., Tsattalios, Konstantinos, Chakravarthi, Ramakrishna and Martinovic, Jasna, 2016, Scientific Reports (6), Published

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Probability, not linear summation, mediates the detection of concentric orientation-defined textures

Schmidtmann, Gunnar, Jennings, Ben J., Bell, Jason and Kingdom, Frederick A.A., 2015, Journal of Vision (15), Published

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Chromatic contrast in luminance-defined images affects performance and neural activity during a shape classification task

Jennings, Ben J. and Martinovic, Jasna, 2015, Journal of Vision (15), Published

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Binocularly matched luminance contrast reduces sensitivity to between-eye but not within-eye differences in hue and saturation

Jennings, Ben and Kingdom, Frederick, 2015, Journal of Vision (15), 12, Published

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Detection of chromatic and luminance distortions in natural scenes

Jennings, Ben J., Wang, Karen, Menzies, Samantha and Kingdom, Frederick A.A., 2015, Journal of the Optical Society of America A: Optics and Image Science, and Vision (32), 9 pp 1613-1622, Published

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Shape recognition: convexities, concavities and things in between

Schmidtmann, Gunnar, Jennings, Ben J. and Kingdom, Frederick A.A., 2015, Scientific Reports (5), Published

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Dichoptic and binocular detection of hue and saturation differences: the effect of luminance contrast

Jennings, Ben and Kingdom, Frederick, 2014, Journal of Vision (14), 15, Published

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Colour mixing and apparent motion: the effect of luminance contrast

Jennings, B. and Kingdom, F., 2014, Journal of Vision (14), 10, Published

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Spatial integration of orientation-defined texture

Schmidtmann, G., Jennings, B., Bell, J. and Kingdom, F., 2014, Journal of Vision (14), 10, Published

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Luminance and color inputs to mid-level and high-level vision

Jennings, Ben J. and Martinovic, Jasna, 2014, Journal of Vision (14), 2 pp 1-17, Published

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Colour, luminance and crowding

Jennings, BJ, Chakravarthi, R and Martinovic, J, 2013, i-Perception (4), 7 pp 477-477, Published

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Low-level and high-level modulations of fixational saccades and high frequency oscillatory brain activity in a visual object classification task

Kosilo, Maciej, Wuerger, Sophie M., Craddock, Matt, Jennings, Ben J., Hunt, Amelia R. and Martinovic, Jasna, 2013, Frontiers in Psychology (4), Published

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Colour detection thresholds as a function of chromatic adaptation and light level

Jennings, B. J. and Barbur, J. L., 2010, Ophthalmic and Physiological Optics (30), 5 pp 560-567, Published

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