Dr Ben J. Jennings
Faculties, departments and locations
- Faculty of Business and Social Sciences
- Department of Psychology
- School of Law, Social and Behavioural Sciences
- Penrhyn Road
Senior Lecturer in Psychology
- Email:
- [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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Chromatic sensitivity: effects of light level and selective photoreceptor adaptation
Jennings, Ben (2013), PhD thesis [Published]
Objective and subjective emotional face classification in non-clinical depression
Jennings, Ben J, Boateng, Derrick A., Choudhury, Tamera, Alotaibi, Noof and Cheeta, Survjit (2025). [Published]
Visual working memory for natural scenes: the effect of chromatic, luminance and spatial frequency content
Jennings, Ben J, Tseng, Tzu-Wei Joy and Kingdom, Frederick A. A. (2024). [Published]