Hello Everybody, Firstly thank you Peter for starting this list; I am sure it will prove very useful to all involved. I will also introduce myself. My name is Kevin, and I have been working in the area of face perception and recognition since my undergraduate degree. I am now writing up my doctoral thesis at the University of Birmingham, where I have been investigating how social categorization influences perceptual processing and memory for same-and other-race faces. Within the last week, I am pleased to announce I have had my first set of PhD studies accepted for publication in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, where I investigated how social categorization influenced same-race and other-race processing in intra-or interracial contexts. My research interests in face perception are broad, but mainly focus on two ideas: (1) How social information determines the form of processing and memory outcome for faces (2) How and why are faces categorized into groups? (Whether these are salient or non-salient group memberships). Anybody who is interested in my work, please feel free to contact me. I also hope this list will prove useful in helping us form ideas, and even collaborations. Kind Regards, Kevin Cassidy ------------------------------------------ Kevin D. Cassidy Doctoral Researcher School of Psychology University of Birmingham Edgbaston Birmingham B15 2TT Email: KDC324(a)bham.ac.uk ________________________________________ From: face-research-list-bounces(a)lists.stir.ac.uk [face-research-list-bounces(a)lists.stir.ac.uk] On Behalf Of face-research-list-request(a)lists.stir.ac.uk [face-research-list-request(a)lists.stir.ac.uk] Sent: 04 March 2011 12:00 To: face-research-list(a)lists.stir.ac.uk Subject: Face-research-list Digest, Vol 2, Issue 8 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. Hi! (Chiara Fiorentini) 2. Re: Introduction (Alain) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2011 19:19:49 +0100 From: Chiara Fiorentini <fiorentinichiara(a)gmail.com> Subject: [Face-research-list] Hi! To: face-research-list(a)lists.stir.ac.uk Message-ID: <AANLkTinOrEvYhiU4pEBX7pSxxzoMkSp1BVJc9M2ViZOt(a)mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Hi everybody, I am really glad of this face-list initiative and I will also take a chance to introduce myself briefly. My name is Chiara, I have worked on the recognition of emotional facial expressions since my undergraduate thesis - I am now completing my first post-doc -, and I am so fond of the topic that I wish to stay in the field of faces for many more years! During my PhD I focused on some aspects of the expressions' recognition ability that can be captured by using naturalistic dynamic displays (i.e. the existence of a dynamic advantage for facial expressions, or the ability of the observer to rely on the dynamic invariants of facial expressions). As a Post-doc at UCL, I am investigating facial expression recognition as a part of the Broad Autism Phenotype in Relatives, asking whether subtle abnormalities in perceiving facial expressions are a shared cognitive feature in families with children with Autism. I join the others in hoping that this list can help building "bridges" between face scientists, allowing us to share knowledge, ideas, and doubts. A presto, chiara 2011/3/1 Andy Young <andy.young(a)york.ac.uk> Hello everyone, -- Chiara Fiorentini, PhD Post-Doctoral Research Fellow Behavioral and Brain Sciences Unit UCL Institute of Child Health 30 Guilford Street London WC1N 1EH +44 (0)20 7905 2394