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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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Fwd: [visionlist] A New Image Database: UB KinFace Database
by Rachel Robbins 23 Jan '12

23 Jan '12

This came from Visionlist, but for anyone who is not on that list I thought this might be useful information. Rachel Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2012 16:16:05 -0500 From: "Yun (Raymond) Fu" <yunfu(a)buffalo.edu> Subject: [visionlist] A New Image Database: UB KinFace Database To: visionlist(a)visionscience.com Message-ID: <4F15E515.9010206(a)buffalo.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; Format="flowed" A new image database--UB KinFace Database--is currently online available. http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~yunfu/research/Kinface/Kinface.htm <http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/%7Eyunfu/research/Kinface/Kinface.htm> UB KinFace database is used to develop, test, and evaluate kinship verification and recognition algorithms. It comprises 600 images of 400 people which can be separated into 200 groups. Each group is composed of child, young parent and old parent images. Most of images in the database are real-world collections of public figures (celebrities and politicians) from Internet. -- Yun (Raymond) Fu Dr. and Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science and Engineering State University of New York (SUNY) at Buffalo 331 Davis Hall Buffalo, NY 14260-2500, USA Ph: +1 (716) 645 2670 Email:yunfu@buffalo.edu Web:http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~yunfu/ -- You make a living by what you get; you make a life by what you give. -Winston Churchill.

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Mooney Faces
by H.Ness 18 Jan '12

18 Jan '12

Hi everyone, I'm looking for some Mooney Face stimuli to use in an experiment. If anyone has any that I might be able to use, or could perhaps point me in the right direction, I would be extremely grateful. Many thanks in advance Hayley Dr Hayley Ness Psychology Lecturer Dept of Psychology Open University Walton Hall, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA h.ness(a)open.ac.uk<mailto:h.ness@open.ac.uk> 01908 653 557 -- The Open University is incorporated by Royal Charter (RC 000391), an exempt charity in England & Wales and a charity registered in Scotland (SC 038302).

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New book on face perception
by Andy Young 10 Jan '12

10 Jan '12

Hello everyone, Happy new year! Hard times lead me to kick off the new year with a bit of shameful self-promotion of a new book that may be of interest to some of you: Bruce, V. and Young, A. Face perception. Hove: Psychology Press, 2012, 496 pages, ISBN 978-1-84169-878-6. Further details and a sample chapter are available via the publisher's web site: http://www.cognitivepsychologyarena.com/face-perception-9781841698786 It can be ordered via the publisher or on Amazon. We originally intended this as an update of our previous book (Bruce and Young, 1998, In the eye of the beholder, OUP), but the literature has moved on so much that in the end we were only able to retain a chunk of chapter 1 and some other bits and pieces - the rest is mostly new. We have tried to take a broad perspective on face perception and range fairly widely in terms of sources of evidence. However, there is now such a wealth of studies that many had to be left out. I can only apologise to those whose work may not have received the amount of coverage it deserved. A number of difficult choices had to be made. Cheers, Andy Young.

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Opinion poll regarding current research practices
by Jessica Komes 06 Jan '12

06 Jan '12

Hi all, On behalf of Susann Fiedler (apologies for cross-posting): Dear fellow psychologists, To maintain high scientific standards in our field, it is extremely important that we regularly take a step back and assess the research, data analysis, reporting, and publication practices that represent the current standards in psychology. You may be aware of the debate going on in the psychological community regarding a recent article that addressed the question of whether current practices should be revised (Simmons et al., 2011, Psychological Science). The article has led to diverse reactions among psychologists; and there is much speculation concerning the popular opinion of "psychologists as a whole" towards the recommendations put forth by the article. In cooperation with the Open Science Framework (http://openscienceframework.org/) we are conducting a worldwide survey of psychologists to determine the extent to which the recommendations in the above mentioned article are supported by the psychological community. Everyone's opinion is important; and it is not necessary that you have read the article in order to participate. Share your opinion about psychological research practices and the quality of publications in psychological journals by participating in this short survey! The survey takes approximately 10 minutes and is completely anonymous. Participants may also enter into a raffle to win one of three 50$ Amazon gift certificates. Link to survey: http://ww3.unipark.de/uc/extern/9afd/ Please forward this e-mail to your colleagues. Sincerely, Susann Fiedler Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods Kurt-Schumacher-Str. 10 53113 Bonn Germany -- Jessica Komes, M.Sc. Department of General Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience and DFG Research Unit Person Perception Friedrich Schiller University of Jena Am Steiger 3, Haus 1 07743 Jena Germany Phone: +49 (0)3641 945934 E-Mail: jessica.komes(a)uni-jena.de http://www2.uni-jena.de/svw/Allgpsy1/jessica.htm

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