July 2017 - Face-research-list - University of Stirling Mailing Lists

Individual differences in face perception and person recognition - That's CRPI
by Peter Hancock 28 Jul '17

28 Jul '17

ANNOUNCING A NEW SPECIAL ISSUE or, as we say in the Open Access, On-Line World, A New Thematic Series for Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications (CRPI) Individual differences in face perception and person recognition. Co-organizers: Professor Vicki Bruce, Newcastle University (Vicki.Bruce(a)ncl.ac.uk<mailto:Vicki.Bruce@ncl.ac.uk>) Dr Karen Lander, University of Manchester (Karen.Lander(a)manchester.ac.uk<mailto:Karen.Lander@manchester.ac.uk>) Dr Markus Bindemann, University of Kent (M.Bindemann(a)kent.ac.uk<mailto:M.Bindemann@kent.ac.uk>) The field of face perception and person recognition has developed rapidly over the past 40 years, and we now have advanced understanding of how human brains process human faces, and the relationships between face processing and the perception of other aspects of the person such as voices and bodies. Despite this increase in knowledge, problems of misidentification continue to arise in criminal and security contexts, and many wider social activities rely on accurate reading of faces from subtle social signals. Recent research has highlighted considerable variability in individual abilities to decipher and recognise faces. For example, much attention has been given to recruiting ‘super’-recognisers who are particularly good at face recognition to assist in the identification of criminals. Can an understanding of individual differences more widely help in the recruitment and/or training of professionals, or in the use of eyewitness testimony? This special topic seeks research papers that investigate the nature of individual differences in face perception and/or person recognition, and which consider theoretical alongside applied implications of their findings. Please email one or more of the guest editors with any questions about submissions. CRPI is the open access journal of the Psychonomic Society. Its mission is to publish use-inspired basic research<https://cognitiveresearchjournal.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s41235-0…>: fundamental cognitive research that grows from hypotheses about real-world problems. As with all Psychonomic Society journals, submissions to CRPI are subject to rigorous peer review. For manuscripts accepted for the special issue, the publication fee may be fully or partially waived depending on the number of manuscripts accepted for the special issue. The authors should indicate when they submit a manuscript if they are requesting a waiver of the publication fee. Deadline: manuscripts should be submitted before December 31st, 2017 You can find manuscript submission details at http://cognitiveresearchjournal.springeropen.com/submission-guidelines/prep… Jeremy M Wolfe, PhD Professor of Ophthalmology & Radiology, Harvard Medical School Visual Attention Lab Department of Surgery Brigham & Women's Hospital 64 Sidney St. Suite. 170 Cambridge, MA 02139-4170 Phone: 617-768-8818 Fax: 617-768-8816 Best email:jwolfe@bwh.harvard.edu<mailto:jwolfe@bwh.harvard.edu> Backup: jeremywolfe0131(a)gmail.com<mailto:jeremywolfe0131@gmail.com> URL: search.bwh.harvard.edu<http://search.bwh.harvard.edu> Editor: Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications (CRPI) CRPI is the new open access, peer-reviewed journal of the Psychonomics Society Do you do "use-inspired, basic research" in Cognition? That is what we publish. http://www.cognitiveresearchjournal.springeropen.com/ The information in this e-mail is intended only for the person to whom it is addressed. If you believe this e-mail was sent to you in error and the e-mail contains patient information, please contact the Partners Compliance HelpLine at http://www.partners.org/complianceline . If the e-mail was sent to you in error but does not contain patient information, please contact the sender and properly dispose of the e-mail.

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Lecturer/SL at Stirling
by Peter Hancock 20 Jul '17

20 Jul '17

Stirling Psychology has a vacancy for a Cognitive Psychologist. Here's the snappy URL: http://www.stir.ac.uk/about/jobs/details/index.html?id=QUUFK026203F3VBQB7V7… Peter Peter Hancock Professor, Deputy Head of Psychology, Faculty of Natural Sciences University of Stirling FK9 4LA, UK phone 01786 467675 fax 01786 467641 http://stir.ac.uk/190 http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6025-7068 http://www.researcherid.com/rid/A-4633-2009 Psychology at Stirling: 100% 4* Impact, REF2014 Come and study Face Perception at the University of Stirling! Our unique MSc in the Psychology of Faces is open for applications. For more information see http://www.stir.ac.uk/postgraduate/programme-information/prospectus/psychol… [highly cited 2016]

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CBAR@ACII 2017 CFP: 5th International Workshop on Context Based Affect Recognition @ ACII 2017
by zakia hammal 16 Jul '17

16 Jul '17

Apologies for cross-posting *********************************************************************************** CBAR 2017: CALL FOR PAPERS 5th International Workshop on CONTEXT BASED AFFECT RECOGNITION https://cbar2017.blogspot.ca/2017/04/the-5th-international-workshop-on.html Submission Deadline: July 17th, 2017 *********************************************************************************** The 5th International Workshop on Context Based Affect Recognition (CBAR 2017) will be held in conjunction with ACII 2017 in October 2017 in San Antonio, Texas – http://acii2017.org/ For details concerning the workshop program, paper submission, and guidelines please visit our workshop website at: https://cbar2017.blogspot.ca/2017/04/the-5th-international-workshop-on.html Best regards, Zakia Hammal Zakia Hammal, PhD The Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University http://www.ri.cmu.edu/ http://www.pitt.edu/~emotion/ZakiaHammal.html

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Postdoctoral Position, University of Hong Kong: Understanding eye movements in cognitive tasks
by Janet Hsiao 07 Jul '17

07 Jul '17

*Postdoctoral Position, University of Hong Kong: Understanding eye movements in cognitive tasks* Applicants are invited for appointment as a *Post-doctoral Fellow *in the Attention Brain and Cognition Lab at the Department of Psychology, to commence as soon as possible for a period of 1 year, with the possibility of renewal up to 3 years. Applicants must have a Ph.D. degree in Cognitive Psychology, Cognitive Science, or related fields. Preference will be given to those with experience in running eye movement experiments and eye movement data analysis, or with experience in using machine learning methods to understand human cognition. The appointee will work with Dr. Janet Hsiao (Department of Psychology, University of Hong Kong), in collaboration with Dr. Antoni Chan (Department of Computer Science, City University of Hong Kong) and Dr. Sherry Chan (Department of Psychiatry, University of Hong Kong), on projects related to using a hidden Markov model (HMM) based approach (EMHMM, the Matlab toolbox is available here: http://visal.cs.cityu.edu.hk/research/emhmm/) to analyze eye movement data in cognitive tasks. Information about the research in the lab can be obtained at http://abc.psy.hku.hk/. For more information about the position, please contact Dr. Janet Hsiao at jhsiao(a)hku.hk. Dr. Hsiao will be available for a short meeting during July 13-17 at APCV in Taiwan and during July 26-29 at Cog Sci in London. A highly competitive salary commensurate with qualifications and experience will be offered, in addition to annual leave and medical benefits. Applicants should send a completed application form together with a letter of application, an up-to-date C.V. including academic qualifications, research experience, publications, and at least three letters of reference to Dr. Janet Hsiao at jhsiao(a)hku.hk, with the subject line “Post-doctoral position”. Application forms (341/1111) can be downloaded at http://www.hku.hk/apptunit/form-ext.doc. Further particulars can be obtained at http://jobs.hku.hk/. *Review of applications will start on Aug. 1 and continue until* *the position is filled*. The University thanks applicants for their interest, but advises that only candidates shortlisted for interviews will be notified of the application result.

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Position available for PhD student at the FSU Jena, Germany
by Gyula Kovacs 06 Jul '17

06 Jul '17

The TMS Laboratory of the Dept. Biol. Psychol. and Cognitive Neurosci. at the Inst. Psychology, FSU, Jena, Germany is searching for a PhD student on a project on the identity-specific information acquisition about faces and on the functions of the ventral visual pathway. What we expect from applicants: MSc or equivalent in psychology, biology, cognitive neurosciences or any related discipline. Interest in pursuing a scientific career. Experience in brain stimulation techniques (TMS or tDCS, tACS) as well as in functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and with Matlab are preferred. The PhD position is a three years appointment and the salary is according to the German TV-L salary system on the level of 65 % Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiter. Starting date is flexible, the position is available from 01.09.2017. Interested candidates should provide a 1 page statement of research interest, copy of CV, publication list and names and contact details of 2 referees. Application deadline: 31.07.2017 Further information: http://www.cogsci.uni-jena.de/crbst_6.html <http://www.cogsci.uni-jena.de/crbst_6.html> ---- Gyula Kovács Institute of Psychology Friedrich-Schiller-University of Jena Leutragraben 1, 07743 Jena, Germany Tel: 03641945936 http://www.cogsci.uni-jena.de/ <http://www.cogsci.uni-jena.de/>

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photo comparison
by Peter Hancock 05 Jul '17

05 Jul '17

Dear all, apologies if you regard this as noise, but I decided to send on this post from a fellow academic, though I cropped out the relevant faces to save bandwidth. There may be some facial comparison experts on the list who would like to have a look. My approach would be wisdom of the crowds, since there can never be certainty. Peter. Dear face-research group, Please forgive this unsolicited note. An academic colleague at UCL thought you might be able to advise with regard to the two women in the attached pictures? Whether the woman standing to the left of the seated man in uniform (looking at the picture) is the same person as the married woman in the other image? I hope you don't mind my writing but it would be reassuring to know. The married woman in the twosome is Edith Thompson. My book on her was published by Hamish Hamilton and Penguin in 1988 / 1990, and again in 2001. I am currently working on a digital database about the case and the 1920s. The photograph of the threesome derives from her younger brother's estate but does not identify any of the people in it. If it turned out that the young woman in the threesome is indeed Edith Thompson, assuming that it is possible to have any kind of near-certainty in face recognition, that would throw a valuable light on her tragically short life; and possibly open up a new area of research. Thank you for bearing with me and apologies again for thus trespassing on your time. I will of course fully understand if you are too busy to deal with this query. Best wishes, René Weis <r.weis(a)ucl.ac.uk> Peter Hancock Professor, Deputy Head of Psychology, Faculty of Natural Sciences University of Stirling FK9 4LA, UK phone 01786 467675 fax 01786 467641 http://stir.ac.uk/190 http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6025-7068 http://www.researcherid.com/rid/A-4633-2009 Psychology at Stirling: 100% 4* Impact, REF2014 Come and study Face Perception at the University of Stirling! Our unique MSc in the Psychology of Faces is open for applications. For more information see http://www.stir.ac.uk/postgraduate/programme-information/prospectus/psychol… [highly cited 2016]

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grants from ESRC/BBSRC
by Jodie Davies-Thompson 04 Jul '17

04 Jul '17

Dear fellow face researchers, Due to mixed messages from the grant bodies, I am trying to get an idea of how successful grants on face recognition have been with ESRC versus BBSRC - particularly applications based on face recognition abilities / prosopagnosia which did NOT include any neuroimaging (note: MRC is not possible to apply for in my case). If you have had some experience with either of these, I would be *hugely* grateful if you could email me privately (j.davies-thompson(a)nottingham.ac.uk) with which grant body you were successful with (or perhaps got turned down from because it was not ’social’ or ‘biological’ enough), and the general topic that your grant was on. Many thanks! Jodie This message and any attachment are intended solely for the addressee and may contain confidential information. If you have received this message in error, please send it back to me, and immediately delete it. Please do not use, copy or disclose the information contained in this message or in any attachment. Any views or opinions expressed by the author of this email do not necessarily reflect the views of the University of Nottingham. This message has been checked for viruses but the contents of an attachment may still contain software viruses which could damage your computer system, you are advised to perform your own checks. Email communications with the University of Nottingham may be monitored as permitted by UK legislation.

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Models of Human Face Perception PhD at Stirling
by Peter Hancock 04 Jul '17

04 Jul '17

PhD Studentship: Models of Human Face Perception We have a studentship available for UK/EU citizens to work in the Face Research Lab with Professor Peter Hancock. The aim is to work on a computer model of human face perception and recognition. Such a model should show characteristics of human perception, for example being very good at recognising familiar faces but rather poor with unfamiliar ones, yet still able to derive things like age, sex, race and expression. The student will join a much larger project, FACER2VM, where the aim is to improve the state of the art in computer face recognition 'in the wild'. Working with two postdocs who are studying human face recognition, the aim of this studentship is to further our understanding of how we may do it; it is explicitly not a hard-core, squeeze the best you can out of a deep neural network project. The successful candidate will need good programming skills, for example in Matlab or Python. Ideally they will already also be familiar with the psychology of human face perception. The studentship is available for three-years, and includes a tax-free stipend of approximately £14,553 p.a. Tuition fees will be met by the University at the home/EU rate. Subject to satisfactory progress review at the end of the first year, the studentship will be renewed for a second year and thereafter for a third year. The studentship will have an anticipated registration date of 1 October 2017. Informal enquiries to Peter Hancock, pjbh1(a)stir.ac.uk<mailto:pjbh1@stir.ac.uk> or Linda Cullen (linda.cullen(a)stir.ac.uk<mailto:linda.cullen@stir.ac.uk> Tel: +44 (0) 1786 466854. Please submit a CV and research proposal via the online application, selecting 'Research Degree in Psychology': http://www.stir.ac.uk/postgraduate/how-to-apply/ Once you have started the application process, please email research.admissions(a)stir.ac.uk<mailto:research.admissions@stir.ac.uk> to ask to be exempted from the 'find-a-supervisor' process. Closing date: 28th July Peter Hancock Professor, Deputy Head of Psychology, Faculty of Natural Sciences University of Stirling FK9 4LA, UK phone 01786 467675 fax 01786 467641 http://stir.ac.uk/190 http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6025-7068 http://www.researcherid.com/rid/A-4633-2009 Psychology at Stirling: 100% 4* Impact, REF2014 Come and study Face Perception at the University of Stirling! Our unique MSc in the Psychology of Faces is open for applications. For more information see http://www.stir.ac.uk/postgraduate/programme-information/prospectus/psychol… [highly cited 2016]

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