August 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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Oxford Handbook of Face Perception
by Andy Young 09 Aug '11

09 Aug '11

Hi all, I just received my copy of the recently published 'Oxford Handbook of Face Perception', edited by Andy Calder, Gill Rhodes, Mark Johnson and Jim Haxby (OUP, 2011). See http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780199559053.do Here's what the publishers say about it: 'The Oxford Handbook of Face Perception is the most comprehensive and commanding review of the field ever published. It looks at the functional and neural mechanisms underlying the perception, representation, and interpretation of facial characteristics, such as identity, expression, eye gaze, attractiveness, personality, and race. It examines the development of these processes, their neural correlates in both human and non-human primates, congenital and acquired disorders resulting from their breakdown, and the theoretical and computational frameworks for their underlying mechanisms. With chapters by an international team of leading authorities from the brain sciences, the book is a landmark publication on face perception.' Unusually, most of the hyperbole is valid. This is a book that many of us will be wanting to dip into for the background to aspects of face perception we don't know so well, or just to get someone else's take on our own pet topic. It's not cheap, of course, but you can try to get your library to buy it. Definitely worth checking out, anyway. Cheers, Andy Young.

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Research assistant vacancy
by Peter Hancock 09 Aug '11

09 Aug '11

University of Stirling School of Natural Sciences / Psychology Psychology is seeking to appoint a Research Assistant to work on an ESRC-funded project, under the direction of Dr Stephen Langton (Principal Investigator), exploring how visual attention is influenced when observers view natural, dynamic shifts of another person's eye-gaze. The successful candidate will be responsible for the day-to-day management of the project. They will be expected to prepare experimental materials, implement the planned experiments, recruit participants for the research and conduct preliminary analysis of the data. Applicants should have an Honours Degree in Psychology, or a related discipline, and an interest in face/gaze processing. They should have excellent communication skills, experience in conducting quantitative research, and competence in statistical analysis techniques. Some experience with eye-tracking techniques, video-editing, image processing (e.g., Adobe Photoshop) and experiment-management software (e.g., EPrime) would be desirable, as would experience in managing a large-scale research project. The position is full-time, fixed-term for 36 months with a proposed start date 1st November 2011. The maximum starting salary will be £23,660p.a., (Grade 6, Spine Point 22). Informal enquiries to Dr Stephen Langton, telephone 01786 467659 or email srhl1(a)stir.ac.uk<mailto:srhl1@stir.ac.uk>. 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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Looking for Asian neutral faces stimuli set
by Christy Reece 04 Aug '11

04 Aug '11

Hello, I'm a psychology research Masters student and I'm looking at in-group/out-group ratings of faces, which I intend to manipulate through priming. The group is determined by ethnicity and I will be asking ethnically Chinese individuals to participate. I have a set of neutral Chinese faces and I am now looking for a second set of neutral Asian faces that I can use for comparison. The second set of faces must be clearly distinct from the Chinese faces, so my current preference would be for a set of Indian stimuli, however I am open to using any Asian stimuli set other than faces that are ethnically Japanese since the face structure is too similar to Chinese. I would really appreciate some help getting this second set of stimuli. If anyone one has a stimuli set or knows of one referenced in an article can you please let me know? Full credit will of course be given to the creator of the stimuli set. Thanks and Regards, Christy -- Christy Reece Research Assistant National University of Singapore Department of Psychology AS5-04-21 ph: 8246 0526

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Prosopagnosia papers
by creusot 02 Aug '11

02 Aug '11

Hi, Im a PhD student in computer science working on 3D face landmarking and recognition. I am looking for scientific articles on prosopagnosia and on the difference between face recognition and object recognition in the brain. This is probably the right mailing-list to ask. What I am looking for is review articles about research on prosopagnosia so that I can redirect my readers (if they are interested) to the whole corpus of literature by citing one or two articles. As it is not my field it is difficult for me to distinguish between the good and less good papers on that subject. I'm sure your expertise can help. Please contact me if you have some articles to suggest. Best regards, Clement Creusot.

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