October 2011 - Face-research-list - University of Stirling Mailing Lists

Research assistant at Aberdeen
by Peter Hancock 22 Nov '11

22 Nov '11

Dear Colleagues, We are currently taking applications for a postdoctoral Research Fellow (2-year post) and would appreciate if you could forward the advertisement below to any researchers you know who would be interested. Kind regards, Lisa DeBruine and Ben Jones ----------------------------------------------------------------------- The Face Research Lab<http://facelab.org> is seeking applications for a postdoctoral Research Fellow for a 2-year ESRC-funded position starting 1 October 2011. The Research Fellow will be responsible for conducting a longitudinal study of mate choice and face preferences and will be supervised by Dr Lisa DeBruine and Prof Benedict Jones. Criteria * PhD in Psychology or a cognate discipline. * A proven track record of research and publication. * Experience of conducting large-scale laboratory research. * Background in social cognition, evolutionary theories of behaviour, and/or mate preference/choice. * Expertise in using Excel and SPSS (or equivalent). * Experience using Psychomorph to manipulate faces is desirable. * Ability to work as part of a team. * Good IT and communication skills (both written and oral). * Ability to think and work independently. * Ability to manage long-term research projects with large numbers of participants. * Willingness to travel to conferences, including air travel. Please see http://abdn.ac.uk/jobs (reference: 1201349) to apply. Online applications are due 31 August 2011. Contact Lisa DeBruine at l.debruine(a)abdn.ac.uk<mailto:l.debruine@abdn.ac.uk> for further information. Peter Hancock Professor Acting Head of Psychology, School of Natural Sciences University of Stirling FK9 4LA, UK phone 01786 467675 fax 01786 467641 http://www.psychology.stir.ac.uk/staff/staff-profiles/academic-staff/peter-… -- The Sunday Times Scottish University of the Year 2009/2010 The University of Stirling is a charity registered in Scotland, number SC 011159.

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Paper and thesis on orientation and face perception
by James A. Bednar 28 Oct '11

28 Oct '11

I am very pleased to announce the publication of the following paper in Vision Research: Chen Zhao, Peggy Seriès, Peter J. B. Hancock, and James A. Bednar. Similar neural adaptation mechanisms underlying face gender and tilt aftereffects. Vision Research, 51(18):2021-2030, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.visres.2011.07.014 This paper may be of interest to both computational and psychophysical researchers, because it shows how computational models developed for low-level vision (oriented lines) can help explain higher visual function (face gender perception). Specifically, we found that models based on the primary visual cortex successfully predicted previously unknown and important aspects of face gender perception. These results support the idea that higher vision uses similar mechanisms as early vision, and are in conflict with prevailing theories of face perception that rely on norm-based encoding. Additional details and related models are available in Roger's recently completed PhD: http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/jbednar/papers/zhao.phd11.pdf We are very interested in hearing feedback about this work, particularly from those working on norm-based theories of higher visual perception. Jim Dr. James A. Bednar Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation University of Edinburgh, UK http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/jbednar -- The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336.

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The Cambridge Car Memory Test
by Hugh Dennett 27 Oct '11

27 Oct '11

Hi all, Given that the Cambridge Face Memory Test (CFMT) has been very widely used, I thought some of you may be interested to know that we have just published a paper with young adult norms for a new non-face object memory test (the CCMT) with the same format as the CFMT. As with the CFMT, the CCMT has a range suitable for investigating individual differences in the normal adult population. You can access the paper at: http://www.springerlink.com/content/c36317587643qt37/ I have also included the abstract below. Regards, Hugh Dennett -- The Cambridge Car Memory Test: A task matched in format to the Cambridge Face Memory Test, with norms, reliability, sex differences, dissociations from face memory, and expertise effects Hugh W. Dennett, Elinor McKone, Raka Tavashmi, Ashleigh Hall, Madeleine Pidcock, Mark Edwards and Bradley Duchaine Behavior Research Methods DOI: 10.3758/s13428-011-0160-2 Many research questions require a within-class object recognition task matched for general cognitive requirements with a face recognition task. If the object task also has high internal reliability, it can improve accuracy and power in group analyses (e.g., mean inversion effects for faces vs. objects), individual-difference studies (e.g., correlations between certain perceptual abilities and face/object recognition), and case studies in neuropsychology (e.g., whether a prosopagnosic shows a face-specific or object-general deficit). Here, we present such a task. Our Cambridge Car Memory Test (CCMT) was matched in format to the established Cambridge Face Memory Test, requiring recognition of exemplars across view and lighting change. We tested 153 young adults (93 female). Results showed high reliability (Cronbach's alpha = .84) and a range of scores suitable both for normal-range individual-difference studies and, potentially, for diagnosis of impairment. The mean for males was much higher than the mean for females. We demonstrate independence between face memory and car memory (dissociation based on sex, plus a modest correlation between the two), including where participants have high relative expertise with cars. We also show that expertise with real car makes and models of the era used in the test significantly predicts CCMT performance. Surprisingly, however, regression analyses imply that there is an effect of sex per se on the CCMT that is not attributable to a stereotypical male advantage in car expertise. -- Hugh Dennett Ph.D. Candidate Department of Psychology The Australian National University Canberra ACT 0200 E: hugh.dennett(a)anu.edu.au T: +61 2 6125 2716 W: http://psychology.anu.edu.au/_people/people_details.asp?recId=177

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Special Issue to celebrate 25 years of the Bruce and Young model
by Burton, Mike 19 Oct '11

19 Oct '11

Dear all - can I draw your attention to the latest issue of the British Journal of Psychology, which is a Special Issue entitled: Person Perception 25 years after Bruce and Young (1986). Here is a link to the issue: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/bjop.2011.102.issue-4/issuetoc I have listed the contents below. best, Mike Burton ------ British Journal of Psychology, November 2011: Special Issue Contents Person perception 25 years after Bruce and Young (1986): An introduction (pages 695–703) Stefan R. Schweinberger and A. Mike Burton Speechreading and the Bruce–Young model of face recognition: Early findings and recent developments (pages 704–710) Ruth Campbell Understanding Voice Perception (pages 711–725) Pascal Belin, Patricia E. G. Bestelmeyer, Marianne Latinus and Rebecca Watson The neural processing of familiar and unfamiliar faces: A review and synopsis (pages 726–747) Vaidehi Natu and Alice J. O’Toole Neural correlates of adaptation to voice identity (pages 748–764) Stefan R. Schweinberger, Christian Walther, Romi Zäske and Gyula Kovács Multiple contributions to priming effects for familiar faces: Analyses with backward masking and event-related potentials (pages 765–782) Peggy Dörr, Grit Herzmann and Werner Sommer The role of eyes in early face processing: A rapid adaptation study of the inversion effect (pages 783–798) Dan Nemrodov and Roxane J. Itier Insights into the development of face recognition mechanisms revealed by face aftereffects (pages 799–815) Linda Jeffery and Gillian Rhodes Age biases in face processing: The effects of experience across development (pages 816–829) Viola Macchi Cassia Neural mechanisms of the automatic processing of emotional information from faces and voices (pages 830–848) Thomas Straube, Martin Mothes-Lasch and Wolfgang H. R. Miltner The face and person perception: Insights from social cognition (pages 849–867) Kimberly A. Quinn and C. Neil Macrae When it matters how you pronounce it: The influence of regional accents on job interview outcome (pages 868–883) Tamara Rakić, Melanie C. Steffens and Amélie Mummendey The role of name labels in the formation of face representations in event-related potentials (pages 884–898) Iris Gordon and James W. Tanaka The structure of semantic person memory: Evidence from semantic priming in person recognition (pages 899–914) Holger Wiese An appreciation of Bruce and Young's (1986) serial stage model of face naming after 25 years (pages 915–930) J. Richard Hanley The effect of motion at encoding and retrieval for same- and other-race face recognition (pages 931–942) Natalie Butcher, Karen Lander, Hui Fang and Nick Costen Mental representations of familiar faces (pages 943–958) A. Mike Burton, Rob Jenkins and Stefan R. Schweinberger Understanding person perception (pages 959–974) Andrew W. Young and Vicki Bruce The University of Aberdeen is a charity registered in Scotland, No SC013683.

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