• As opined by Ferretti & Papaleo (2019), recognition of emotions is effectively facilitated by the brain, and this is based on the perceptual processing that is based on the geometric configurations related to varied facial expressions and linking the stimulus's emotional value with recognition. (newassignmenthelpaus.com)
  • Sheep facial recognition software is in the offing, suggests an October 22, 2019 news report in the New Zealand Herald: The world's first sheep facial recognition software, developed in Dunedin, is set to be prototyped this year. (improbable.com)
  • I joined the Department of Psychology, University of Essex in June 2019 The overarching aim of my research is to understand how functional and structural brain networks support human behaviour. (essex.ac.uk)
  • Since the unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic outbreak in 2019, wearing face masks has become a prevalent practice for curbing the spread of coronavirus. (springeropen.com)
  • Although the blocking manipulation did not influence emotion recognition, it led to higher valence ratings in a non-category-specific manner, including neutral sounds. (nature.com)
  • Emotion recognition technology raises questions about bias, privacy and mass surveillance. (theconversation.com)
  • This non-conscious system seems to operate in parallel with the normal, predominantly cortical, processing routes and with characteristics that are possibly different from that of conscious emotion recognition. (scholarpedia.org)
  • To address this question, we compared young adults' performance between masked and unmasked faces in four different tasks: (1) emotion recognition task, (2) famous face recognition and naming test, (3) age estimation task, and (4) gender classification task. (springeropen.com)
  • Results revealed that the presence of face mask has a negative impact on famous face recognition and emotion recognition, but to a smaller extent on age estimation and gender classification tasks. (springeropen.com)
  • More interestingly, we observed a female advantage in the famous face recognition and emotion recognition tasks and a female own-gender bias in gender categorisation and age estimation tasks. (springeropen.com)
  • Emotion recognition in the wild challenge 2013. (javeriana.edu.co)
  • To address this issue, we investigated differences in complex emotion recognition between participants ( n = 181) that had been a priori genotyped for functional polymorphisms of the COMT (Val158Met) and serotonin transporter (5-HTTLPR) gene. (frontiersin.org)
  • Variations of participants' COMT but not 5-HTTLPR genotype accounted for differences in participants' emotion recognition performance: Met/Met carriers and Met/Val carriers were more accurate in the recognition of negative, but not neutral or positive, expressions than Val/Val carriers. (frontiersin.org)
  • In contrast with facial emotion recognition in autism that has received much attention in the literature (e.g. (scirp.org)
  • Exogenous Oxytocin is an important component that facilitates the process of facial recognition by humans. (newassignmenthelpaus.com)
  • In humans, this is accomplished by facial recognition. (wikipedia.org)
  • Research suggests that humans are born with an innate ability to process other human faces. (wikipedia.org)
  • Further research suggests that humans prefer to focus on faces rather than non-face alternatives. (wikipedia.org)
  • This preference is one explanation for why humans are more proficient at memorizing faces than non-faces. (wikipedia.org)
  • In this engineering psychology program, you'll explore the interactions between humans and machines, and the science behind human behavior as you prepare for a career in ergonomics, cognition, perception, design, and more. (rit.edu)
  • Engineering psychology focuses on exploring and understanding the relationship between humans and machines. (rit.edu)
  • Do construction systems mimic the way in which humans recognise unfamiliar faces? (bournemouth.ac.uk)
  • Face recognition is probably humans' most basic social skill. (springeropen.com)
  • However, we learned that to get the most highly accurate face identification, we should combine the strengths of humans and machines. (homelandsecuritynewswire.com)
  • However, there is a narrow band of image dimensions for shape and texture that are critical for the recognition of identity in humans and computer models of face recognition . (bvsalud.org)
  • The workshop will provide a forum to present and discuss current research focusing on the way human faces are perceived, understood and described by humans, as well as the way computational models represent (and therefore 'understand') human faces and generate descriptions of faces, or facial images corresponding to descriptions, for different purposes and applications. (lu.se)
  • This course will survey theoretical and empirical approaches to understanding the nature of the mental processes involved in attention, object recognition, learning and memory, reasoning, problem solving, decision-making, and language. (rit.edu)
  • Whereas the study of low-level vision has flourished, the study of high level object recognition has not. (ucsb.edu)
  • Why is object recognition so poorly understood? (ucsb.edu)
  • But progress may be slow for another reason as well: Vision scientists may be having trouble understanding object recognition because they are seeking processes that are too general. (ucsb.edu)
  • Most vision scientists reason as follows: Since we are able to recognize objects from all kinds of categories-even evolutionarily novel ones-the processes of object recognition must themselves be domain-general. (ucsb.edu)
  • Yet it has not led to a breakthrough in our understanding of object recognition. (ucsb.edu)
  • An alternative view is that the object recognition system is composed of a variety of subsystems, at least some of which are specialized for recognizing categories of entities that have been very important during our evolutionary history. (ucsb.edu)
  • Perhaps the problem of object recognition has been difficult to crack because people are not looking for these specialized systems. (ucsb.edu)
  • suggests that face and object recognition involve qualitatively different processes that may occur in distinct brain areas. (jneurosci.org)
  • Proven skills in scholarly writing will be an advantage, as will be a background in face/object recognition or social neuroscience and/or programming skills. (myessaysearch.com)
  • The goal of our proof-of-concept application was to examine the underlying neural architecture of the face perception literature from a meta-analytic perspective, as these studies include a wide range of tasks. (nih.gov)
  • Behavioral signatures of face perception emerge in deep neural networks optimized for face recognition. (mit.edu)
  • What Duchaine realized early on is that people with developmental prosopagnosia (DP) offer a unique window on the cognitive, neural and developmental bases of face recognition . (ucsb.edu)
  • Thus, several sources of evidence support the existence of specialized neural "modules" for face perception in extrastriate cortex. (jneurosci.org)
  • Although the COMT gene appears to induce a negativity bias during the neural processing of faces, it is currently unclear whether a similar negativity bias emerges during the behavioral processing of faces. (frontiersin.org)
  • We, therefore, revealed a similar negativity bias during the behavioral processing of faces that has already been demonstrated during the neural processing of faces, indicating that genotype-dependent changes in catecholamine metabolism may affect face processing on the behavioral and neural level. (frontiersin.org)
  • As a result, we know a lot about the genetic modulation of neural activity during face processing, but almost nothing about the behavioral consequences of this genetic modulation. (frontiersin.org)
  • Students enrolled in the MS degree in experimental psychology may be awarded the advanced certificate by taking the certificate's required courses as part of their master's program. (rit.edu)
  • Member of the Experimental Psychology Society (EPS). (plymouth.ac.uk)
  • Paper presented at the Experimental Psychology Society Meeting, Kent, July. (plymouth.ac.uk)
  • Poster presented at the Experimental Psychology Society Meeting, Kent, July. (plymouth.ac.uk)
  • The research, published in the Journal of Experimental Psychology, studied participants with super recognition against images of faces with differing ethnicity, and found that in all but four cases, super recognisers performed to a higher degree of accuracy when identifying faces of their own ethnicity. (bournemouth.ac.uk)
  • Prosopagnosia is an inability to identify faces and face-like objects. (wikipedia.org)
  • Congenital prosopagnosia: Face-blind from birth. (springer.com)
  • Configural face processes in acquired and developmental prosopagnosia: Evidence for two separate face systems? (springer.com)
  • Developmental prosopagnosia: A window to content-specific face processing. (springer.com)
  • Prosopagnosia as an impairment to face-specific mechanisms: Elimination of the alternative hypotheses in a developmental case. (springer.com)
  • Event-related potentials reflect impaired face recognition in patients with congenital prosopagnosia. (springer.com)
  • What aspects of face processing are impaired in developmental prosopagnosia? (springer.com)
  • Such is the case for those suffering from prosopagnosia , or face-blindness, a severe deficit that makes it difficult to distinguish between faces. (psychologytoday.com)
  • That's why the research holds promise for therapies for that second category of people, who may suffer disorders such as prosopagnosia (face blindness) and autism. (scienceblog.com)
  • Prosopagnosia is a neuropsychological condition that selectively impairs your ability to recognize individual faces. (ucsb.edu)
  • Dr Bate and her colleagues have been working on face processing conditions for a number of years, with Bournemouth University known worldwide as a centre of knowledge for conditions such as prosopagnosia - or face blindness - as well as super recognition. (bournemouth.ac.uk)
  • They also scored significantly better than average on a perceptual discrimination test with faces. (springer.com)
  • The same holds true for studies that investigate perceptual recognition of emotions in the absence of stimulus awareness in neurological populations with lesions to brain areas that are not primarily visual. (scholarpedia.org)
  • Overall, these findings allude to the lack of malleability of the adulthood face recognition and perceptual systems. (springeropen.com)
  • I completed my BSc (First Class hons) in Psychology and my PhD (Distinction Cum Laude) in electrophysiology at the University Complutense of Madrid, Spain. (essex.ac.uk)
  • As the study of mental processes and behaviour, Psychology is interested in what makes people tick, why they do the things they do and what happens when it goes wrong? (abdn.ac.uk)
  • This distinction between stimulus recognition, stimulus categorization, and stimulus evaluation is important for understanding what cognitive and emotional processing stages involve somatosensory and motor processes. (nature.com)
  • Her research is focused on the necessary psychological processes and representations that underlie abilities such as object segmentation and recognition, face recognition, mental imagery, reading and writing and spatial attention. (thesciencenetwork.org)
  • But there was no link between facial recognition and general intelligence, which is made up of various cognitive processes - a suggestion that face processing is unique. (scienceblog.com)
  • I then took up a Research Assistant position at Cardiff University, a project which represented the first extensive study into the processes of face detection, with Michael Lewis. (staffs.ac.uk)
  • we encounter many faces every day, and recognise the faces of people we know easily, through changes in viewpoint, expression and lighting (see Johnston & Edmonds, 2009), but how do we learn these new faces, and what processes are involved in an unfamiliar face becoming familiar to us over time? (staffs.ac.uk)
  • The visual system could have dedicated recognition processes for some of these categories as well. (ucsb.edu)
  • Pattern recognition is much-discussed topic in both artificial intelligence and psychology. (improbable.com)
  • A 1965 medical study performed pattern recognition on the chest hair of white males: "Variations of the hair patterns of the chest of white males," Laurel Raymond Setty, Journal of the National Medical Association, vol. 57, no. 3, May 1965, pp. 211-4. (improbable.com)
  • Computer scientists and engineers have worked on the face in graphics, animation, computer vision, and pattern recognition. (bartneck.de)
  • Techniques for automatic facial expression processing have been studied intensively in the pattern recognition community and the findings are highly relevant to HCI [ 1 , 2 ]. (bartneck.de)
  • Computer scientists and engineers have worked increasingly on FP, from the widely varying viewpoints of graphics, animation, computer vision, and pattern recognition. (bartneck.de)
  • Accordingly, there has been much effort in the pattern recognition, AI, and robotics communities towards the analysis, understanding, and synthesis of emotion and expression. (bartneck.de)
  • Pattern Recognition, 36(1), 259-275. (javeriana.edu.co)
  • 2. A surface-negative potential, N200, was evoked by faces but not by the other categories of stimuli. (ox.ac.uk)
  • The face is considered a special type of stimuli for processing by the brain, which is dependent on the fusiform gyrus region of the brain. (newassignmenthelpaus.com)
  • It is also broadly discussed in the essay that there is a functional difference in the recognition of faces compared to the recognition and perception of other types of visual stimuli. (newassignmenthelpaus.com)
  • 2018). The behavioural paradigms represent that the processing of faces as a stimulus by the brain functionally differs from the perception of other stimuli. (newassignmenthelpaus.com)
  • Blocking facial mimicry can disrupt recognition of emotion stimuli. (nature.com)
  • Using child-friendly movie stimuli to study the development of face, place, and object regions from age 3 to 12 years. (mit.edu)
  • For a copy of the article "Individual Differences in Holistic Processing Predict Face-recognition Ability" and access to other Psychological Science research findings, please contact Divya Menon at 202-293-9300 or [email protected] . (scienceblog.com)
  • Young & Burton, 2017 ) and external features may dominate face-matching decisions when recognising unfamiliar faces compared to familiar faces (Ellis et al. (springeropen.com)
  • Face recognition in human extrastriate cortex. (ox.ac.uk)
  • Psychology researchers at Glasgow University say they have increased the accuracy of automated face recognition to 100 per cent. (theregister.com)
  • To isolate holistic processing as the key to face recognition, the researchers first measured the ability of study participants - 337 male and female students - to remember whole faces, using a task in which they had to select studied faces and flowers from among unfamiliar ones. (scienceblog.com)
  • Having obtained a first class award in Psychology, I then went on to study for an MSc in Psychological Research Methods at the University of Stirling, working closely with some of the leading researchers in the face recognition field in Vicki Bruce and Peter Hancock. (staffs.ac.uk)
  • NIST says that i 'Times New Roman'">n work that combines forensic science with psychology and computer vision research, a team of scientists from the National Institute of Standards and Technology ( NIST ) and three universities has tested the accuracy of professional face identifiers, providing at least one revelation that surprised even the researchers: Trained human beings perform best with a computer as a partner, not another person. (homelandsecuritynewswire.com)
  • Mike Burton, Professor of Psychology at Glasgow, and lecturer Rob Jenkins say they achieved their hugely-improved results by eliminating the variable effects of age, hairstyle, expression, lighting, different camera equipment etc. (theregister.com)
  • Dr Sarah Bate, lead author on the research and Professor of Psychology at Bournemouth University, said, "We are understanding more and more about face processing abilities and, as we do, each finding gives us a greater awareness of abilities like super recognition and how they operate. (bournemouth.ac.uk)
  • In weekly lectures and practicals you will learn how various research methods are applied across a variety of Psychology sub-fields. (abdn.ac.uk)
  • You will learn more about research methods in Psychology through lectures, practicals and taking part in research. (abdn.ac.uk)
  • Students will have opportunities to develop their research skills and critical thinking by designing research studies in cognitive psychology. (rit.edu)
  • An important issue in face recognition research is whether faces are recognized on the basis of their individual features or more holistically, on the basis of their overall shape. (improbable.com)
  • In 2011 myself and Ben Parris from the Psychology Research Centre were awarded a small RDF grant to investigate whether intranasal inhalation of the hormone oxytocin can improve eye-witness identification. (bournemouth.ac.uk)
  • Given the broad training in quantitative and research skills, psychology students are sought after in a wide range of professional areas including marketing and consulting, government and public policy, and social and mental health services. (brandeis.edu)
  • Recent psychology majors have gone on to graduate work in clinical, applied, and scientific research areas of the field. (brandeis.edu)
  • The program provides students with an understanding of the scientific foundations of psychology (social, developmental and cognitive), as well as direct research experience (experimental design, data collection, data analysis and research writing). (brandeis.edu)
  • Through coursework, research involvement, and applied experience, the Department of Psychology offers students the opportunity to explore questions like these. (brandeis.edu)
  • The program examines the most up-to-date psychological research and theory and also provides opportunities for direct involvement in clinical, mental-health, business, and educational applications of psychology. (brandeis.edu)
  • My main area of research interest is face perception, which I first developed during my undergraduate degree at Manchester Metropolitan University. (staffs.ac.uk)
  • His research asks whether there is a division of labor within face processing and within visual recognition more generally. (ucsb.edu)
  • This has led me to research such things as the accuracy of confidence judgements in memory, recollective experience, source memory judgements, face-recognition, eyewitness memory, feeling of knowing and tip-of-the-tongue states. (plymouth.ac.uk)
  • However, research from Bournemouth University has found that even super recognition has its limits, particularly when it comes to recognising ethnicities other than your own. (bournemouth.ac.uk)
  • The research found that super recognisers were better at recognising faces from their own ethnicity, and that their ability to recognise faces reduces when faced with other ethnicities. (bournemouth.ac.uk)
  • The "Beyond Categories" lab conducts research on object and face recognition in cognitively intact and impaired individuals, using electrophysiology (EEG and ERP) and behavioral methods. (myessaysearch.com)
  • Consequently, much research has been devoted to delineate the genetic mechanisms underlying face processing ( Niedenthal and Brauer, 2012 ). (frontiersin.org)
  • The workshop aims to reach out to all these communities to explore the many different aspects of research on human faces and foster cross-disciplinary synergy. (lu.se)
  • Towards the end of my PhD the opportunity arose to work with Robert Johnston at the University of Kent, during which time we wrote a comprehensive review of the differences between familiar and unfamiliar face processing. (staffs.ac.uk)
  • In the context of behavioural studies on face reception, it is considered that visual cues derived from their face of an individual provides crucial information on the emotional state and identity. (newassignmenthelpaus.com)
  • According to this functional model of face recognition, facial identity and emotional expression are processed in parallel and independently. (springeropen.com)
  • Three patterns of motion which change the perception of emotional faces. (javeriana.edu.co)
  • Influence of emotional facial expressions on 3-5-yearolds' face recognition. (javeriana.edu.co)
  • The karolinska directed emotional faces: a validation study. (javeriana.edu.co)
  • This book examines several topics on the recognition, developmental differences and social importance of emotional and facial expressions. (novapublishers.com)
  • Visual experience is not necessary for the development of face-selectivity in the lateral fusiform gyrus. (mit.edu)
  • Using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), we found an area in the fusiform gyrus in 12 of the 15 subjects tested that was significantly more active when the subjects viewed faces than when they viewed assorted common objects. (jneurosci.org)
  • The results showed that all of the amygdally impaired subjects rated unfamiliar faces as much more trustworthy and approachable than familiar faces. (wikipedia.org)
  • Unfamiliar faces are not faces: Evidence from a matching task. (springer.com)
  • Recognition of unfamiliar faces involves structural encoding of faces, directed visual processing, as well as facial expression and speech analysis. (springeropen.com)
  • Although face recognition ability is used extensively in our daily life, the common difficulty in identifying unfamiliar faces (Bruce et al. (springeropen.com)
  • Behavioural data were collected using a sorting and matching task with unfamiliar faces and a recognition task with familiar faces . (bvsalud.org)
  • Emma described how holistic systems better mirror the way in which we recognise faces in everyday life and demonstrated how further enhancement techniques can be used to boost the accuracy of images created this way (e.g. removing or blurring external facial features ). (bournemouth.ac.uk)
  • Super recognition - an extraordinary ability to recognise faces - has found increased exposure this year, from media coverage about the ability, to use by police forces in helping to solve crimes. (bournemouth.ac.uk)
  • For example, while it is celebrated that police forces are using super recognition to help solve crimes, we now know that super recognisers themselves will be far more effective when limited to finding faces of their own ethnicity. (bournemouth.ac.uk)
  • This essay aims to evaluate the unique process of perceiving faces and the role of different regions of the brain in determining the ability of a person to recognize and differentiate faces. (newassignmenthelpaus.com)
  • This finding suggests that neonates are able to remember, recognize, and differentiate between faces. (wikipedia.org)
  • A key challenge in human and computer face recognition is to differentiate information that is diagnostic for identity from other sources of image variation. (bvsalud.org)
  • The inability to correctly recognize a face can have detrimental consequences for building social relationships due to the fact that recognition is required for associating feelings or experiences with a stimulus. (wikipedia.org)
  • Prosopagnosics can't recognize faces. (psychologytoday.com)
  • In daily life, we recognize faces both holistically and also "analytically" - that is, picking out individual parts, such as eyes or nose. (scienceblog.com)
  • people who, due to genetic or congenital anomalies, never developed the ability to recognize faces. (ucsb.edu)
  • Furthermore, many reports have described patients with damage in the occipitotemporal region of the right hemisphere who have selectively lost the ability to recognize faces ( De Renzi, 1997 ). (jneurosci.org)
  • The essay effectively explains this with the help of evidence based on neurological, neuropsychological and behavioral studies on the perception of faces by the human brain. (newassignmenthelpaus.com)
  • The processing of faces by the human brain is an important category of visual processing, and the most important regions are the mouth and eyes. (newassignmenthelpaus.com)
  • Importantly you will also learn how to "do" psychology and will receive rigorous training in the methods that are used to study human behaviour and the mind. (abdn.ac.uk)
  • PS1009 introduces you to major concepts and theories in psychology to provide you with a strong understanding of the human mind and behaviour. (abdn.ac.uk)
  • The advanced certificate provides you with formal recognition of your knowledge in engineering psychology and establishes a credential for seeking a career in the human factors or ergonomics fields. (rit.edu)
  • In this course the students will learn to recognize the integrated (systems) nature of Engineering Psychology, the centrality of human beings in systems design, and to use the topics covered and the available knowledge base to adapt the environment to people. (rit.edu)
  • We modelled human familiarity by using image averaging to derive stable face representations from naturally varying photographs. (theregister.com)
  • This simple procedure increased the accuracy of an industry standard face-recognition algorithm from 54 per cent to 100 per cent, bringing the robust performance of a familiar human to an automated system. (theregister.com)
  • Abstract - The human face plays a central role in most forms of natural human interaction so we may expect that computational methods for analysis of facial information and graphical and robotic methods for synthesis of faces and facial expressions will play a growing role in human-computer and human-robot interaction. (bartneck.de)
  • Our goal in this paper is to review the situation in HCI with regards to the human face, and to discuss strategies which could bring more slowly developing areas up to speed. (bartneck.de)
  • There is, for example, a reasonable amount of evidence that the visual system contains a subsystem specialized for recognizing human faces, and this claim is in no way inconsistent with the observation that we are capable of recognizing evolutionarily novel objects as well. (ucsb.edu)
  • The most fundamental cue we utilize when communication with others is that of the human face. (novapublishers.com)
  • Our data allow us to reject alternative accounts of the function of the fusiform face area (area "FF") that appeal to visual attention, subordinate-level classification, or general processing of any animate or human forms, demonstrating that this region is selectively involved in the perception of faces. (jneurosci.org)
  • Descriptions of faces are frequent in human communication, for example when one seeks to identify an individual or distinguish one person from another. (lu.se)
  • While feature-based systems require the witness to piece together a likeness, by selecting and editing from a database of individual photographed features (e.g. noses and mouths), holistic systems allow the witness to select whole-face representations, with selections bred together to preserve important configural similarities (i.e. the relative distances between features). (bournemouth.ac.uk)
  • Successful recognition of familiar faces is achieved when there is a match between the products of accurate structural encoding and previously stored representations of familiar faces, held in the FRUs. (springeropen.com)
  • A photo from a security camera can mean prison or freedom for a defendant-and testimony from highly trained forensic face examiners informs the jury whether that image actually depicts the accused. (homelandsecuritynewswire.com)
  • This is the first study to measure face identification accuracy for professional forensic facial examiners, working under circumstances that apply in real-world casework," said NIST electronic engineer P. Jonathon Phillips. (homelandsecuritynewswire.com)
  • We identified four sub-classes of face tasks: (1) Visuospatial Attention and Visuomotor Coordination to Faces, (2) Perception and Recognition of Faces, (3) Social Processing and Episodic Recall of Faces, and (4) Face Naming and Lexical Retrieval. (nih.gov)
  • Upon completing the project, I began my PhD under his supervision, looking at the effects of rotation on a variety of face processing tasks. (staffs.ac.uk)
  • We confirmed this detrimental effect of luminance reversal in a series of visual search tasks, which showed that luminance may be important for the pre-attentive stages of face detection (Lewis & Edmonds, 2005). (staffs.ac.uk)
  • Principal components analysis was used to reveal the dimensions across which the shape and texture of faces in these tasks varied. (bvsalud.org)
  • We found that the ability to predict behavioural responses in the unfamiliar face tasks increased when the early PCA dimensions (i.e. those accounting for most variance) of shape and texture were removed from the analysis . (bvsalud.org)
  • These "face modules" appear to be intercalated among other functionally specific small regions. (ox.ac.uk)
  • This essay introduces the evidence that faces are functionally special in favor of the processing by the brain. (newassignmenthelpaus.com)
  • It could be that the visual system has several functionally distinct category-specific recognition systems-one for animals, another for plants, another for man-made tools, and so on. (ucsb.edu)
  • These findings illustrate a large difference in the amygdally impaired subjects' perception of faces. (wikipedia.org)
  • Accuracy of eyewitness identification is significantly associated with performance on a standardized test of face recognition. (springer.com)
  • This effect was larger with upright than with inverted faces, and the 4 subjects showed a larger "inversion effect" than did control subjects, who in turn showed a larger inversion effect than did developmental prosopagnosics. (springer.com)
  • Overall, these "super-recognizers" are about as good at face recognition and perception as developmental prosopagnosics are bad. (springer.com)
  • No therapies exist to improve recognition, so prosopagnosics must rely on non-facial cues to identify people. (psychologytoday.com)
  • The features of the undergraduate program also make Brandeis psychology graduates especially attractive to employers in the mental health and business professions. (brandeis.edu)
  • You will also learn how to set up and conduct a Psychology study yourself. (abdn.ac.uk)
  • Identical twins are no better than outsiders at recognizing photos of each other's faces when the photographs are upside down, and sometimes when the photos are rightside-up, says this new study: "Is That Me or My Twin? (improbable.com)
  • The answer (or one answer, at least) is in the study: "Statistical Discrimination of Footwear: A Method for the Comparison of Accidentals on Shoe Outsoles Inspired by Facial Recognition Techniques," Nicholas Dominick Koslap Petraco, Carol Gambino, Thomas A. Kubic, Dayhana Olivio and Nicholas Petraco, J Forensic Sci, Vol. (improbable.com)
  • A new study by Liu and colleagues Ruosi Wang, Jingguang Li, Huizhen Fang, and Moqian Tian provides the first experimental evidence that the inequality of abilities is rooted in the unique way in which the mind perceives faces. (scienceblog.com)
  • The main objective of the psychology major is to help students develop a solid background in the scientific method and a strong foundation in the fundamentals of psychology, making them highly competitive candidates for postgraduate study and also preparing them to be thoughtful, analytic, and discerning problem solvers. (brandeis.edu)
  • The NIST study is the most comprehensive examination to date of face identification performance across a large, varied group of people. (homelandsecuritynewswire.com)
  • Our psychology department provides a supportive and stimulating environment for undergraduate students. (abdn.ac.uk)
  • For more information, please visit the Psychology undergraduate website . (queensu.ca)
  • Students desiring such consideration or more information should consult with the Undergraduate office in Psychology. (queensu.ca)
  • Brad Duchaine started working on face recognition while he was a graduate student at the CEP, and he has continued to do so as a professor at Dartmouth College, where he heads the Social Perception Lab . (ucsb.edu)
  • It is widely accepted that the FFA is involved in the encoding and retrieval of memory for faces and other familiar categorical processing. (wikipedia.org)
  • Furthermore, by emphasizing categorical recognition judgments, previous studies neglected the role of mimicry in other processing stages, including dimensional (valence and arousal) evaluations. (nature.com)
  • When it comes to biometric authorization systems, there are many to choose from - candidates include face recognition, fingerprint recognition, ear recognition, voice recognition, tongue recognition and body odour recognition etc etc. (improbable.com)