Workshops & Meetings

Person Perception – From cortical areas to social functions

Friday, April, 4, 2014
1st Session: Atypical
9.00 – 9.40 Mechanisms of typical and atypical face perception and recognition: Evidence from ERP studies Martin EIMER (Dept. Psychol., Birbeck, Univ. London, UK)
9.40 – 10.20 Person and expression perception in autism James TANAKA (Dept. Psychol. Univ. Victoria, CA)
10.20 – 10.40 Coffee Break

2nd Session: Networks
10.40 – 11.20 Short talks on the perception of within-person variability Sally ANDREWS (Univ. Aberdeen, UK) & Carolin ALTMANN (Dept. Gen. Psychol., Univ. Jena, D)
11.20 – 12.00 Functional specialization within the face network: insights from intrinsic functional connectivity analysis Zoltán VIDNYÁNSZKY (Cent. Nat. Sci, Hung. Acad Sci., Budapest, H)
12.00 – 13.30 Lunch Break

3rd Session: Social I
13.30 – 14.10 Plasticity of the social brain Olga KLIMECKI (Cent. Aff. Sci., Univ. Genf, CH)
14.10 – 14.50 Effects of aging on perceiving and remembering person-related information Jessica KOMES/ Holger WIESE (Dept. Gen. Psychol., Univ. Jena, D)
14.50 – 15.10 Coffee Break

4th Session: Social II
15.10 – 15.50 Facing beauty: How hormones shape face preferences Janek LOBMAIER (Dept. Psychol., Univ. Bern, CH)
15.50 – 16.30 Face gender and age modulates female and male brain activity differently Gyula KOVÁCS (Inst. Psychol., Univ. Jena, D)
16.30 – 19.00 Poster Session

Saturday, April, 5, 2014
8.30 – 9.00 Internal meeting of the Person Perception Research Group

5th Session: Methods
9.15 – 9.55 Instance-weighted transfer learning of active appearance models Joachim DENZLER (Computer Vision Group, Univ. Jena, D)
9.55 – 10.35 Speaker perception Stefan SCHWEINBERGER (Dept. Gen. Psychol., Univ. Jena, D)
10.35 – 10.55 Coffee Break

6th Session: Voices
10.55 – 11.35 Neural correlates of processing angry voices in social anxiety disorder Thomas STRAUBE (Inst. Med. Psychol., Univ. Münster, D)
11.35 – 12.15 Voice recognition Sarah STEVENAGE (Psychol., Univ. Southampton, UK)
12.15 – 12.30 Closing remarks

For enquiries and directions please contact Mrs Kathrin Wiese, Person Perception Research Unit Coordinator, Department of Psychology, Am Steiger 3/1, 07743 Jena, Germany. Tel. +49 (0)3641 945180. Fax +49 (0)3641 945182. E-mail: kathrin.wiese@uni-jena.de.