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@york.ac.uk> Hello everyone,

I just joined this list, and found no messages yet, so thought maybe those of us who sign up might introduce ourselves.

I've been working on faces since 1974, when Hadyn Ellis told me to stop messing about with Piagetian psychology and do something more interesting. I reckon that now makes me one of those who has been doing this stuff for longer than most, and Hadyn was right - it has got more and more interesting over the years.

Thanks to Peter for starting this list, which I hope will be very useful to us all.

Cheers,

Andy Young (sadly, now a misnomer).

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