UWA Person Perception

(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.

(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.

"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 sciencedirect.com/science/articl… 🧵(1/7)👇

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-blindness…

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 rdcu.be/c52e4 @GillesEGignac @DrMeenie @PersonPercept @UWApsych

Time to clear up some of the misconceptions and incorrect claims in this thread and accompanying paper:

These neural responses were observed in the absence of explicit instructions to attend to facial trustworthiness. Proud supervisors & collaborators are @C_AMSutherland @DrMeenie @DerekSwe @linjef & Scott Gwinn. @UWApsych

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. authors.elsevier.com/c/1gT4n6TBF%7E…

Great to see interest in this fab new paper from @PersonPercept PhD student Saba Siddique 👍😀

DEADLINE EXTENDED 📢 Scientific Reports is seeking submissions for a special issue on FACE PERCEPTION 🙂🙃😆🙄🤩😬 📅 NEW Deadline: 31 March 2023 More info ⬇️ ...please RT nature.com/collections/dg… @SciReports

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 sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

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) doi.org/10.1016/j.neur…

@NicBadcock 🤣

Sums up my semester of online lecturing: "the lecturer was wonderful but from time to time it seemed like he was talking to himself"

@kayritchiepsych 😔 Hope it’s not too bad & you are soon fighting fit again!

So, it turns out I’m not invincible after all. Covid finally caught me! Feeling poopy so far but I’m being well looked after.

Infant sensitivity to age-based social categories in full-body displays doi.org/10.1016/j.infb…