We research how people extract, process and use information about others. We were part of the ARC Centre of Excellence in Cognition and its Disorders.
Joined October 2012
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3 Jul 2024
"Face recognition's practical relevance: Social bonds, not social butterflies" 📢New paper from our former PhD student @lauramengfors & a great team including @jeremywilmer, @drmeenie, @gillesegignac,
@lauragermine, @linjef
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(6/7) Our discoveries underscore the value of good face recognition while suggesting likely struggles associated with poor face recognition. This insight helps us to better understand and support those with varying abilities.
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3 Jul 2024
(7/7) We wish to thank the thousands of citizen scientists and participants — recruited in-person and online at TestMyBrain.org — whose efforts enabled the multiple replications and large samples that give solidity to these findings.
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16 Mar 2023
Long COVID, often reported to cause Brain Fog, may also cause #prosopagnosia #faceblindness, say researchers at Dartmouth College USA. Individuals affected can struggle to recognise even close friends and family neurosciencenews.com/face-bl…
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22 Feb 2023
Read my latest #research on General Figure Closure, Face-specific closure / Face Detection and Trait-Autism, published with @SpringerNature.
More research to come. #facerecognition #intelligence
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@GillesEGignac @DrMeenie @PersonPercept @UWApsych
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Time to clear up some of the misconceptions and incorrect claims in this thread and accompanying paper:
3 Feb 2023
Most brain-imaging studies make 3 questionable assumptions: mental events are localizable, map uniquely to dedicated #brain circuitry, & are independent of larger context. These 19th-century views need an update. New #OpenAccess paper in @TrendsCognSci. 1/ cell.com/trends/cognitive-sc…
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31 Jan 2023
Free download latest paper from @PersonPercept student Saba Siddique’s PhD. Using FPVS we found that 8-9 year old children show reliable neural responses to variations in facial trustworthiness that didn’t differ in strength from adult responses.
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11 Jan 2023
Great to see interest in this fab new paper from @PersonPercept PhD student Saba Siddique 👍😀
10 Jan 2023
In a repeated economic game, children first relied on partners' facial trustworthiness to make decisions. But by the end of the game, they had overcome this bias and switched to relying on partners' previous behavior.
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10 Jan 2023
DEADLINE EXTENDED
📢 Scientific Reports is seeking submissions for a special issue on FACE PERCEPTION 🙂🙃😆🙄🤩😬
📅 NEW Deadline: 31 March 2023
More info ⬇️ ...please RT
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5 Jan 2023
New paper: How quickly do we learn new faces in everyday life? @MilaPopova8 and I think about 10 minutes of real-life interaction are sufficient. @CORTEXjournal @DurhamPsych @DROdurham
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15 Jul 2022
Check out our newest paper on face-blindness.
Lots of research has focused on finding one explanation for why people can’t recognise faces, but we think there are (at least) two! A 🧵… (1/8)
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8 Jun 2022
Infant sensitivity to age-based social categories in full-body displays doi.org/10.1016/j.infbeh.202…
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7 Jun 2022
📢We have an exciting 3-year Wellcome Trust-funded Research Associate position with our social psychologist Dr Tim Kurz on an interdisciplinary international project on rabies prevention in India, see details below, deadline July 11th!
Post-doc Position: "Social Psychology of Human-Animal Relations" at the University of Western Australia; Application deadline: July 11th, 2022
#socpsyjobs
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4 Jun 2022
Super excited for my first paper out today! A corpus of behaviour statements rated on morality, competence, informativeness, and believability.
@Nicolas_Fay
@UlliEcker @boyautocrat @AndyPerfors @HowePiers
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