Stefan Uddenberg
Assistant Professor
Primary Affiliation
Biologically Informed Artificial IntelligenceAffiliations
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Biography
Stefan Uddenberg is currently an assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology and affiliated with the Beckman Institute Biologically Informed Artificial Intelligence group. His main research interests include social perception, visual perception, and visual cognition.
Education
Ph.D., Psychology, 2018
B.A., Cognitive Science and Japanese Studies, Dartmouth College, 2011
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Research
Research interests:
Visual perception
Visual cognition
Face perception
Social perception
Stefan Uddenberg's research explores the default assumptions wired into the mind, especially in the context of perception. It turns out that what we see is a process of unconscious inferences, where we take into account not only the exact nature of the light entering our eyes, but also a set of assumptions about the source that most likely generated or reflected that light. It is now becoming possible to reveal the nature of these assumptions through various techniques. One of his favorite techniques is the method of serial reproduction — essentially the children’s game of ‘Broken Telephone’ — which his lab uses to explore our default assumptions across several visual contexts, ranging from faces to intuitive physics.
Most recently, Stefan has been working on building new generative models of psychological stimuli, such as faces. For example, using these models allows for the generation of hyper-realistic face images which can then be transformed along many perceived attributes of psychological interest. Such models of psychological impressions are important for elucidating and combating stereotypes and discrimination.
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2023
- Uddenberg, S., Thompson, B., Vlasceanu, M., Griffiths, T. L., and Todorov, A. (2023). Iterated learning reveals stereotypes of facial trustworthiness that propagate in the absence of evidence. Cognition, 237, 105452.
2022
- Albohn, D. N., Uddenberg, S., and Todorov, A. (2022). A data-driven, hyper-realistic method for visualizing individual mental representations of faces. Frontiers in Psychology, 13:997498.
- Peterson, J. C., Uddenberg, S., Griffiths, T. L., Todorov, A., and Suchow, J. W. (2022). Deep models of superficial face judgments. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119(17), e2115228119.
- Todorov, A., Uddenberg, S., and Albohn, D. N. (2023). Generative models for visualizing idiosyncratic impressions. British Journal of Psychology, 114(2), 511-514.
2021
- Colombatto, C., Uddenberg, S., & Scholl, B. J. (2021). The efficiency of demography in face perception. Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics, 83(8), 3104-3117.
- Suthaharan, P., Reed, E. J., Leptourgos, P., Kenney, J., Uddenberg, S., Mathys, C. D., Litman, L., Robinson, J., Moss, A. J., Taylor, J. R., Groman, S. M, and Corlett, P. R. (2021). Paranoia and belief updating during the COVID-19 crisis. Nature Human Behavior, 5(9), 1190-1202.
2020
- Reed, E. J., Uddenberg, S., Suthaharan, P., Mathys, C. D., Taylor, J. R., Groman, S. M., and Corlett, P. R. (2020). Paranoia as a deficit in non-social belief updating. eLife, 9, e56345.
2018
- Uddenberg, S., and Scholl, B. J. (2018). Teleface: Serial reproduction of faces reveals a whiteward bias in race memory. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 147(10), 1466-1487.
2016
- Ongchoco, J.D.K., Uddenberg, S., and Chun, M. M (2016). Statistical learning of movement. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 23(16).
- van Buren, B., Uddenberg, S., and Scholl, B. J. (2016). The automaticity of perceiving animacy: Goal-directed motion in simple shapes influences visuomotor behavior even when task-irrelevant. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 23(3), 797-802.
2015
- Uddenberg, S., and Shim, W. S. (2015). Seeing the world through target-tinted glasses: Positive mood broadens perceptual tuning. Emotion, 15(3), 1931-1516.