Person Perception: Interim Report and Perspectives of the DFG Research Unit
Thursday, April 19, 2012
10.30 – 11.20 Individual differences in face processing: Psychometric, neural, and genetic perspectives Werner Sommer (Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany)
11.20 – 12.00 Person Perception: Concept of the Research Unit Stefan R. Schweinberger (University of Jena)
12.00 – 12.30 Temporal Context in Face Perception: The Interaction of Competition and Prediction Gyula Kovács (Regensburg/Budapest)
12.20 – 12.40 Individual differences in learning and recognizing faces Jürgen M. Kaufmann (Jena)
12.40 – 13.00 Attractiveness: Statistical properties versus individual person characteristics of face images Christoph Redies / Gregor Hayn-Leichsenring (Jena)
13.00 – 14.00 Lunch Break
14.00 – 14.20 Facial expressions: The role of spatial frequencies for information selection and attention Oliver Langner / Klaus Rothermund ( Jena)
14.20 – 14.40 Voice Perception: Basic Parameters Stefan R. Schweinberger (Jena)
14.40 – 15.00 Determinants of Voice Learning Romi Zäske (Jena)
15.00 – 15.20 Interactions of visual and auditory information in social perception related to gender and ethnicity Melanie C. Steffens / Tamara Rakic / Adrian P. Simpson (Jena)
15.20 – 15.40 Coffee Break
15.40 – 16.00 Cooperation between people: Facial and interactional signals as coordination devices Thomas Kessler / Franz J. Neyer (Jena)
16.00 – 16.20 Automatic brain activation to faces and voices in social phobia before and after psychotherapy Thomas Straube / Wolfgang H.R. Miltner ( Jena)
16.20 – 16.40 Age and aging in face perception and memory Holger Wiese (Jena)
16.40 – 17.00 Concluding feedback round
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.
