Workshops & Meetings

Person Perception 25 years after Bruce and Young (1986)

Thursday, October 14, 2010

15.00 / 3:00 pm: Welcome

15.05 / 3:05 pm: Keynote lecture “Understanding Person Perception” – Vicki Bruce (University of Newcastle) and Andy W. Young (University of York)

16.00 – 18.00 / 4:00 – 6.00 pm: Poster Session

18.00 – 19.00 / 6:00 – 7:00 pm: Welcome – Reception

Friday, October 15, 2010

9.00 – 9.40 am: “What is a Face Recognition Unit?” – A. Mike Burton (University of Glasgow)

9.40 – 10.20 am: “Top-down Effects on Stimulus Repetition Related Phenomena” – Gyula Kovács (University of Regensburg and Budapest University of Technology)

10.20 – 10.40 am: Coffee Break

10.40 – 11.20 am: “Face Learning” – Jürgen M. Kaufmann (Friedrich Schiller University, Jena)

11.20 – 12.00 am: “Understanding Voice Recognition” – Pascal Belin (University of Glasgow)

12.00 – 13.30 pm: Lunch Break

13.30 – 14.10 pm: “Audiovisual Integration in Person Perception” – Stefan R. Schweinberger (Friedrich Schiller University, Jena)

14.10 – 14.50 pm: “The Functional and Neural Bases of Social Attention Perception” – Andy J. Calder (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge)

14.50 – 15.30 pm: “A Role of the Amygdala in the Processing of Specific Facial Features” – Thomas Straube (Friedrich Schiller University, Jena)

15.30 – 16.00 pm: Coffee Break

16.00 – 16.40 pm: “The Role of Dialects and Accents for Job Interview Outcome” – Melanie C. Steffens (Friedrich Schiller University, Jena)

16.40 – 17.20 pm: “The Face and Person Perception” – C. Neil Macrae (University of Aberdeen)

17.20 – 18.00 pm: “Age and Ageing in Face Perception and Face Memory” – Holger Wiese (Friedrich Schiller University, Jena)

Saturday, October 16, 2010

09.00 – 11.00 am: Discussion of PPRU projects with external speakers

11.00 – 13.00 am: PPRU internal meeting