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Post-doc position
by Andy Calder 05 Sep '12

05 Sep '12

Please note the closing date for this job is 12th Sept MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit – Cambridge Investigator Scientist The MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit (CBSU) is an internationally renowned research institute with state-of-the-art cognitive neuroscience facilities. Applications are invited for a 9 month investigator scientist position to support a programme addressing the cognitive and neural bases of processing faces and other social cues intypical participants and individuals with Autism Spectrum Conditions (ASC). The research is in collaboration with the Autism Research Centre, Cambridge and is part of Dr Andy Calder's research programme. The position provides backfill for two investigator scientists whose time is engaged by separate projects. Applicants should have a PhD in psychology, neuroscience or a related discipline (or will have submitted your PhD recently), and a strong interest in studying face perception and social cognition. Experience in the acquisition of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data and its analysis with thestatistical parametric mapping software (SPM) is important. Good communication and teamworking skills and familiarity with experimental presentation and statistical software packages (e.g., SPSS) are also essential. Experience of running experimentsinvolving individuals with ASC would be an advantage. Applicants should also be prepared to work out-of-hours occasionally. The starting salary will be in the range of £26,022 - £28,178 per annum, depending upon qualifications and experience. We offer a flexible pay and reward policy, 30 days annual leave entitlement, and an optional MRC final salary Pension Scheme. On site car and bicycle parking is available. We are not able to offer sponsorship under Points Based Immigration for this position. Applications are handled by the RCUK Shared Services Centre; to apply please visit our job board at https://ext.ssc.rcuk.ac.uk<https://ext.ssc.rcuk.ac.uk/> and complete an online application form. Applicants who would like to receive thisadvert in an alternative format (e.g. large print, Braille, audio or hard copy), or who are unable to apply online should contact us by telephone on 01793 867003, please quote reference number IRC64726. Closing date: 12th September 2012 Andy Calder Scientific Programme Leader MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit 15, Chaucer Road, Cambridge CB2 7EF Telephone: +44 (0)1223 355294 Fax: +44 (0)1223 359062

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30 YEARS OF RESEARCH ON FACES
by ornella godard 05 Sep '12

05 Sep '12

Hello everybody* ! **https://sites.google.com/site/30yearsofresearchonfaces/ 25th and 26th September 2012 in Dijon* A conference entitled *30 YEARS OF RESEARCH ON FACES* is organized on September 25-26, 2012 in Dijon (France). The purpose of this conference is to provide up-to-date analyzes from the *last three decades of research on human face processing*. It will consist in four half-day sessions, respectively devoted to cognitive, developmental, neurophysiological, and neuropsychological approaches. Each session will start with a 1-hour key-note lecture describing the progress of knowledge up to current issues and concerns; then two 45-minute presentations will focus on more specific and hot areas of enquiry on human face processing. Registration and payment are open now. Poster presentation is also possibel. Hope to see you in Dijon !! Regards Ornella -- Godard Ornella, Ph.D Post-doctorante Centre des Sciences du Goût et de l'Alimentation Equipe "Ethologie développementale et psychologie cognitive" CSGA, UMR6265 CNRS, UMR1324 INRA, Agrosup Dijon 9E Bld Jeanne d'Arc Université de Bourgogne <http://www2.dijon.inra.fr/csga/site_fr/vie_scienti.php> <http://www2.dijon.inra.fr/csga/site_fr/vie_scienti.php> <http://www2.dijon.inra.fr/csga/site_fr/vie_scienti.php>

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Aurelie PORCHERON/FR/CERIES est absente.
by aurelie.porcheron＠ceries-lab.com 22 Aug '12

22 Aug '12

Je serai absent(e) à partir du 17/08/2012 de retour le 10/09/2012.

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Advertisment for Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Face Processing)
by Sarah Bate 22 Aug '12

22 Aug '12

Dear all, I am currently advertising for a Postdoctoral Research Fellow to join my lab at Bournemouth University (UK) for an initial period of 12 months. The successful applicant will be contributing to the lab's core research programme investigating the cognitive and neural basis of developmental prosopagnosia. In addition, the post-holder will carry out some pilot work examining face processing skills in dementia. Please see the full advert using the link below, or contact me for more information (sbate(a)bournemouth.ac.uk<mailto:sbate@bournemouth.ac.uk>). http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/AFA855/postdoctoral-research-fellow-in-psychology/ Best wishes, Sarah Dr Sarah Bate Senior Lecturer in Psychology Bournemouth University [http://www.bournemouth.ac.uk/Images/QueensAwardLogo.jpg] BU is a Disability Two Ticks Employer and has signed up to the Mindful Employer charter. Information about the accessibility of University buildings can be found on the BU DisabledGo webpages<http://www.disabledgo.com/en/org/bournemouth-university> This email is intended only for the person to whom it is addressed and may contain confidential information. If you have received this email in error, please notify the sender and delete this email, which must not be copied, distributed or disclosed to any other person. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Bournemouth University or its subsidiary companies. Nor can any contract be formed on behalf of the University or its subsidiary companies via email.

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validation of social perception measures on the web
by Laura Germine 03 Aug '12

03 Aug '12

As so many of you are doing web experiments or interested in web experiments, I thought I'd share our recent paper comparing data from web and lab samples for different measures including face and emotion recognition: Germine, L., Nakayama, K., Duchaine, B.C., Chabris, C.F., Chatterjee, G., & Wilmer, J.B. (in press). Is the web as good as the lab? Comparable findings from Web and lab in cognitive/perceptual experiments. *Psychonomic Bulletin & Review.* <http://www.lauragermine.org/articles/germine_pbr2012.pdf> Essentially we find comparable means, standard deviations, and internal reliability for web and lab-based samples on these tests. We hope it'll be a resource for other researchers who are thinking about using web-based methods and those who want to address reviewer skepticism about web methods for face recognition research. Please let me know if you have questions. Best, Laura -- http://www.lauragermine.org/ http://www.testmybrain.org/

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Literature on ambiguos facial expression.
by Michal Olszanowski 02 Aug '12

02 Aug '12

Dear All, I'm looking for a literature on social perception on ambiguous facial expression. I have a feeling that there's not many on this – except perception of displayed emotion and the influence of the context and individual differences (e.g. anxiety). However, what I’m looking for is how people interpreted the meaning of ambiguous emotional expression during social interaction (e.g. what are displayer’s intention or action request?). Secondly, do you know any literature showing that negative/angry display might be less readable than positive displays in terms of displayer’s intention and action request? There’s a lot of literature that show influence of culture/social norms on facial expression during social interaction, e.g. western cultures are less likely to show anger to strangers (cause it might be acknowledge as impolite). So, during social interaction we should rather expect stranger to smile than to frown. Consequently, if someone is smiling it is natural that he/she’s trying to be nice, on the other hand if he/she’s showing anger, there might be a lot of reasons for such a behavior and his/her intention remain unclear… I don’t know whether you’d support my way of thinking, but if you do, and additionally have some research on this, please let me know! :-) I’d appreciate your help! Michal -- ********** Michal Olszanowski, PhD. Warsaw School of Social Sciences & Humanities Faculty of Psychology, Cognitive Psychology Department Chodakowska Street 19/31, PL - 03815 Warsaw www.swps.pl, www.emotional-face.org

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Re: [Face-research-list] Face-research-list Digest, Vol 18, Issue 10
by Gary Cottrell 31 Jul '12

31 Jul '12

Yes, we have lots of sergent and hellige and sergent - I will look for later hellige papers, thanks! g. On Jul 31, 2012, at 4:00 AM, face-research-list-request(a)lists.stir.ac.uk wrote: > Send Face-research-list mailing list submissions to > face-research-list(a)lists.stir.ac.uk > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://lists.stir.ac.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/face-research-list > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > face-research-list-request(a)lists.stir.ac.uk > > You can reach the person managing the list at > face-research-list-owner(a)lists.stir.ac.uk > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Face-research-list digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: Face-research-list Digest, Vol 18, Issue 9 (Andy Young) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2012 12:30:52 +0100 (BST) > From: "Andy Young" <andy.young(a)york.ac.uk> > To: face-research-list(a)lists.stir.ac.uk > Subject: Re: [Face-research-list] Face-research-list Digest, Vol 18, > Issue 9 > Message-ID: > <38bd81e02833e704130ac80929379393.squirrel(a)psycmail.york.ac.uk> > Content-Type: text/plain;charset=utf-8 > > Hi Gary, > > There is quite a substantial literature on this. > > Try a citation search on Justine Sergent's papers from the early 1980s, or > on papers by Joseph Hellige later that decade and from the 1990s. If you > Google 'joseph hellige spatial frequency' you can find the latter papers. > > Googling 'spatial frequency hypothesis psychology' also brings up a range > of more recent contributions. > > Just for the record, Young and Bion (1981) had nothing to do with spatial > frequencies. We did publish one relevant study (Newcombe, de Haan, Ross > and Young, Neuropsychologia, 1989, 27, 523-538), but it didn't involve > lateralised presentation. > > Cheers, > > Andy Young. > > >> Send Face-research-list mailing list submissions to >> face-research-list(a)lists.stir.ac.uk >> >> To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit >> http://lists.stir.ac.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/face-research-list >> or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to >> face-research-list-request(a)lists.stir.ac.uk >> >> You can reach the person managing the list at >> face-research-list-owner(a)lists.stir.ac.uk >> >> When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific >> than "Re: Contents of Face-research-list digest..." >> >> >> Today's Topics: >> >> 1. query on HSF/LSF face processing and hemispheric asymmetries >> (Gary Cottrell) >> >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> Message: 1 >> Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2012 23:58:08 -0700 >> From: Gary Cottrell <gary(a)eng.ucsd.edu> >> To: face-research-list(a)lists.stir.ac.uk >> Subject: [Face-research-list] query on HSF/LSF face processing and >> hemispheric asymmetries >> Message-ID: <B1172C3E-33A4-4F61-AEBC-A0D2A3C7828D(a)eng.ucsd.edu> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" >> >> >> Hi folks - >> >> I am looking for references hemispheric asymmetries in the spatial >> frequency processing of faces. I.e., what would be ideal would be >> experiments with brief presentations to a different hemi-fields of low or >> high-pass faces. I know about Sergent's 1985 paper and Young & Bion 1981. >> Things seem scarce after that. >> >> thanks! >> gary cottrell >> >> Gary Cottrell 858-534-6640 FAX: 858-534-7029 >> Computer Science and Engineering 0404 >> IF USING FED EX INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING LINE: >> CSE Building, Room 4130 >> University of California San Diego >> 9500 Gilman Drive # 0404 >> La Jolla, Ca. 92093-0404 >> >> "Probably once or twice a week we are sitting at dinner and Richard says, >> 'The cortex is hopeless,' and I say, 'That's why I work on the worm.'" Dr. >> Bargmann said. >> >> "A grapefruit is a lemon that saw an opportunity and took advantage of >> it." - note written on a door in Amsterdam on Lijnbaansgracht. >> >> "Physical reality is great, but it has a lousy search function." -Matt >> Tong >> >> "Only connect!" -E.M. Forster >> >> "You always have to believe that tomorrow you might write the matlab >> program that solves everything - otherwise you never will." -Geoff Hinton >> >> "I am awaiting the day when people remember the fact that discovery does >> not work by deciding what you want and then discovering it." >> -David Mermin >> >> Email: gary(a)ucsd.edu >> Home page: http://www-cse.ucsd.edu/~gary/ >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >>

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Re: [Face-research-list] Face-research-list Digest, Vol 18, Issue 9
by Andy Young 30 Jul '12

30 Jul '12

Hi Gary, There is quite a substantial literature on this. Try a citation search on Justine Sergent's papers from the early 1980s, or on papers by Joseph Hellige later that decade and from the 1990s. If you Google 'joseph hellige spatial frequency' you can find the latter papers. Googling 'spatial frequency hypothesis psychology' also brings up a range of more recent contributions. Just for the record, Young and Bion (1981) had nothing to do with spatial frequencies. We did publish one relevant study (Newcombe, de Haan, Ross and Young, Neuropsychologia, 1989, 27, 523-538), but it didn't involve lateralised presentation. Cheers, Andy Young. > Send Face-research-list mailing list submissions to > face-research-list(a)lists.stir.ac.uk > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://lists.stir.ac.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/face-research-list > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > face-research-list-request(a)lists.stir.ac.uk > > You can reach the person managing the list at > face-research-list-owner(a)lists.stir.ac.uk > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Face-research-list digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. query on HSF/LSF face processing and hemispheric asymmetries > (Gary Cottrell) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2012 23:58:08 -0700 > From: Gary Cottrell <gary(a)eng.ucsd.edu> > To: face-research-list(a)lists.stir.ac.uk > Subject: [Face-research-list] query on HSF/LSF face processing and > hemispheric asymmetries > Message-ID: <B1172C3E-33A4-4F61-AEBC-A0D2A3C7828D(a)eng.ucsd.edu> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > > Hi folks - > > I am looking for references hemispheric asymmetries in the spatial > frequency processing of faces. I.e., what would be ideal would be > experiments with brief presentations to a different hemi-fields of low or > high-pass faces. I know about Sergent's 1985 paper and Young & Bion 1981. > Things seem scarce after that. > > thanks! > gary cottrell > > Gary Cottrell 858-534-6640 FAX: 858-534-7029 > Computer Science and Engineering 0404 > IF USING FED EX INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING LINE: > CSE Building, Room 4130 > University of California San Diego > 9500 Gilman Drive # 0404 > La Jolla, Ca. 92093-0404 > > "Probably once or twice a week we are sitting at dinner and Richard says, > 'The cortex is hopeless,' and I say, 'That's why I work on the worm.'" Dr. > Bargmann said. > > "A grapefruit is a lemon that saw an opportunity and took advantage of > it." - note written on a door in Amsterdam on Lijnbaansgracht. > > "Physical reality is great, but it has a lousy search function." -Matt > Tong > > "Only connect!" -E.M. Forster > > "You always have to believe that tomorrow you might write the matlab > program that solves everything - otherwise you never will." -Geoff Hinton > > "I am awaiting the day when people remember the fact that discovery does > not work by deciding what you want and then discovering it." > -David Mermin > > Email: gary(a)ucsd.edu > Home page: http://www-cse.ucsd.edu/~gary/ > > > > > > > > > > > > >

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query on HSF/LSF face processing and hemispheric asymmetries
by Gary Cottrell 30 Jul '12

30 Jul '12

Hi folks - I am looking for references hemispheric asymmetries in the spatial frequency processing of faces. I.e., what would be ideal would be experiments with brief presentations to a different hemi-fields of low or high-pass faces. I know about Sergent's 1985 paper and Young & Bion 1981. Things seem scarce after that. thanks! gary cottrell Gary Cottrell 858-534-6640 FAX: 858-534-7029 Computer Science and Engineering 0404 IF USING FED EX INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING LINE: CSE Building, Room 4130 University of California San Diego 9500 Gilman Drive # 0404 La Jolla, Ca. 92093-0404 "Probably once or twice a week we are sitting at dinner and Richard says, 'The cortex is hopeless,' and I say, 'That's why I work on the worm.'" Dr. Bargmann said. "A grapefruit is a lemon that saw an opportunity and took advantage of it." - note written on a door in Amsterdam on Lijnbaansgracht. "Physical reality is great, but it has a lousy search function." -Matt Tong "Only connect!" -E.M. Forster "You always have to believe that tomorrow you might write the matlab program that solves everything - otherwise you never will." -Geoff Hinton "I am awaiting the day when people remember the fact that discovery does not work by deciding what you want and then discovering it." -David Mermin Email: gary(a)ucsd.edu Home page: http://www-cse.ucsd.edu/~gary/

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Question about micro-expression datasets
by Wen-Sheng Chu 25 Jul '12

25 Jul '12

Hi, I am Wen-Sheng Chu, an RA and grad student at Carnegie Mellon University. I am working on facial expression analysis problems and want to explore more about micro-expressions. I am wondering if anyone knows about micro-expression datasets in the literature. It would be more preferable if the dataset(s) is publicly available. To the best of my knowledge, there are USF and Canal-9 that might be of interest, according to the FG 2011 paper<http://www.cse.usf.edu/~mshreve/publications/FG11.pdf> . Thanks in advance for your help. Wen-Sheng -- Wen-Sheng (Vincent) Chu Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University EDSH 110, 5000 Forbes Ave Pittsburgh, PA 15213 http://humansensing.cs.cmu.edu/wschu/

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