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Soc-Cog Colloq - Galit Yovel | המחלקה לפסיכולוגיה

Soc-Cog Colloq - Galit Yovel

תאריך: 
ה', 21/06/201812:30-14:00
מיקום: 
Wechsler
Linking (Social) Cognition and Perception to Understand (Face) Recognition:
Face recognition is a computationally challenging task. Whereas humans are considered experts in face recognition, recent work has suggested that this expertise is limited to the faces we are familiar with. In my talk I will discuss possible accounts for the significant gap in performance between familiar and unfamiliar faces and how it can inform us about the mechanism of face recognition. In particular, I will present studies that examined the nature of the perceptual representation of familiar and unfamiliar faces and the contribution of perceptual experience and person-related conceptual/social information to face recognition. These findings suggest a comprehensive framework, which considers the contribution of perceptual experience and conceptual knowledge to our superb ability to recognize familiar stimuli.