February 2012 - Face-research-list - University of Stirling Mailing Lists

time course of adaptation
by Peter Hancock 26 Feb '12

26 Feb '12

Dear all, over the years I have tried various face adaptation experiments, with mostly incoherent results, and watched puzzled as everyone else publishes neat little findings. I began to suspect strong temporal effects and we have finally managed to publish some results demonstrating this with adaptation to antifaces: almost all the effect derives from the first few trials; it is as if whatever is adapting gets 'tired' after that. It may be that others have picked up on this already but I figured it might be useful to draw attention to the finding in case there are those who, like me, are baffled by otherwise strange results. http://www.frontiersin.org/perception_science/10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00019/abst… Peter Peter Hancock Professor, Deputy 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/phancock -- 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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morphed MONKEY faces?
by Gyula Kovacs 24 Feb '12

24 Feb '12

Dear all, does anyone of you know a stimulus database where i could get a larger number (in the range of dozens) morphed MONKEY (Macaca mullata is the best) face-pairs? thanks a lot Gyula Kovacs --- Gyula Kovacs Dept.Cognitive Sciences, Prof. Budapest Univ. Technology and Economics Hungary H-1111 Stoczek u 3 III.318 T:0036-1463-1176 F:00361463-1072 --------------- Inst. Psychology Univ. Regensburg Gebäude PT, Zi. 4.0.35 Universitätsstraße 31, 93053 Regensburg, D T:0049-941-943-3852; Mobile:0049178 1725506 Fax:0049 941 943 3233

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Full front and 3/4 profile pictures of cars
by Benoît MONTALAN 21 Feb '12

21 Feb '12

Hi everyone, I am conducting a study on gaze direction and I need full front and 3/4 profile pictures of cars (control stimuli). Does anybody know where I can find such stimuli ? Thanks for your help Benoît Montalan ___ Post-doctorant Laboratoire de Neurosciences Cognitives Social Group Ecole Normale Supérieure Département d'Études Cognitives 29, rue d'Ulm 75005 Paris, France http://www.grezes.ens.fr/people.php http://sites.google.com/site/benoitmontalanperso/home Une messagerie gratuite, garantie à vie et des services en plus, ça vous tente ? Je crée ma boîte mail www.laposte.net

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Person Perception postdoc at the University of Western Australia
by Romina Palermo 17 Feb '12

17 Feb '12

RESEARCH ASSOCIATE/RESEARCH ASSISTANT PROFESSOR (REF: 3915) ARC Centre of Excellence in Cognition and its Disorders (CCD) School of Psychology, University of Western Australia • 2 year appointment • Salary range: Level A $56,983 - $77,328 p.a. - minimum starting salary for appointee with PhD will be $77,328 p.a. • Salary range: Level B $81,400 - $96,663 p.a. • Plus 17% superannuation • Level of appointment is dependent on qualifications and experience • Closing date: Friday, 30 March 2012 We are seeking a highly motivated early-career researcher to join the Person Perception Program<http://www.ccd.edu.au/research/personperception/> and CCD in the School of Psychology. This position provides an opportunity to work with Associate Professor Romina Palermo<https://sites.google.com/site/drrominapalermo/> and Winthrop Professor Gillian Rhodes<https://www.socrates.uwa.edu.au/S> in their labs. The appointee will conduct independent and collaborative research to investigate the mechanisms (perceptual, cognitive, neural, evolutionary) underlying person perception (faces, bodies, voices). The successful candidate will have an excellent publication record, theoretical knowledge of current issues in person perception, experience designing and conducting experiments, strong quantitative skills and excellent communication skills. For further information regarding the position please contact Associate Professor Romina Palermo on + 61 8 6488 3256 or email romina.palermo(a)uwa.edu.au<mailto:romina.palermo@uwa.edu.au>. The position description is attached. Best wishes, Romina

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Face gender stimuli available
by James A. Bednar 16 Feb '12

16 Feb '12

In response to requests to be able to replicate the stimuli from our study: Chen Zhao, Peggy Series, 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 we have made them freely available at: http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/jbednar/stimuli/ The stimulus set includes 1,612 PNG-format color images generated along an image morph continuum between the average male face and the average female face from a large database of feature-tagged face images; see the paper for the full details. Chen Zhao, Peggy Series, Peter J. B. Hancock, and James A. Bednar -- The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336.

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FW: NCPW13 announcement
by Peter Hancock 09 Feb '12

09 Feb '12

I'm forwarding this to face research list in the hope that there may be one or two modellers out there who would be interested. Peter From: Julien Mayor [mailto:Julien.Mayor@unige.ch] Sent: 09 February 2012 09:32 To: Julien.Mayor(a)unige.ch Subject: NCPW13 announcement Dear colleague, We cordially invite you to participate in the Thirtienth Neural Computation and Psychology Workshop (NCPW13) to be held in San Sebastian (Spain) from July 12-14, 2012: http://www.bcbl.eu/events/ncpw13 This well-established and lively workshop aims at bringing together researchers from different disciplines such as artificial intelligence, cognitive science, computer science, neurobiology, philosophy and psychology to discuss their work on models of cognitive processes. Previous themes have encompassed categorisation, language, memory, development, action. There will be no specific theme, but papers must be about emergent models -- frequently, but not necessarily -- of the connectionist/neural network kind, applied to cognition. These workshops have always been characterised by their limited size, high quality papers, the absence of parallel talk sessions, and a schedule that is explicitly designed to encourage interaction among the researchers present in an informal setting. Furthermore, this workshop will feature a unique set of invited speakers: * Mark Seidenberg. University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA. * Jeffrey Elman. University of California, San Diego. USA. * Randall C. O'Reilly. University of Colorado. USA. * Kim Plunkett. University of Oxford, UK. Important dates to remember: Abstract deadline: March 31st, 2012 Notification of abstract acceptance: May 1st, 2012 Early registration deadline: June 1st, 2012 Online registration deadline: July 1st, 2012 Conference dates: July 12 - 14, 2012 Looking forward to your participation, Julien Mayor --- Julien Mayor University of Geneva 40 Bd Pont d'Arve 1205 Genève Tel: +41 (0)22 3798150 http://www.unige.ch/fapse/psycholinguistique/model.html [cid:98DA99A3-6426-4649-926E-BBB35EDB2F6F@unige.ch] -- 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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asian faces database needed
by Esther Alonso Prieto 08 Feb '12

08 Feb '12

Hi everyone: My name is Esther and I'm a postdoc fellow at University of British Columbia. Weare conducting a face perception study and we need asian faces. Does anybody know where I can find asian faces of old and young men and women, frontal views, neutral expression? Thanks for your help Esther

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