Conférence : "Exploring individual differences in exposure to understand the development of face perception."

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Le Pr Margaret MOULSON (Ryerson University, Canada) présentera le 14 mars une conférence sur le développement de la perception des visages.

 

Cet événement (invitation ) se tiendra dans la salle du Conseil A224 (Place Cardinal Mercier, 14) à 13h, sur le campus de Louvain-la-Neuve (UCL).

Margaret Moulson est actuellement professeure invitée à l'UCL dans le laboratoire "Catégorisation des Visages" (PI : Bruno Rossion) jusqu'à fin juin. Ses recherches portent sur le développement de la perception sociale tant dans les populations typiques qu'atypiques, avec un accent particulier sur la petite enfance et le rôle joué par l'expérience visuelle précoce lors du développement. Pour en savoir plus sur ses recherches : http://www.ryerson.ca/psychology/faculty/moulson/

ABSTRACT : Faces are arguably the most important visual stimulus used in human social communication. Exposure to faces is ubiquitous during development; however, the number and diversity of faces infants and children encounter vary enormously. It is well documented that this diversity is related to infants’ developing face processing ability. For example, infants develop expertise only for those face categories with which they have significant experience, and infants deprived of face experience show disruptions in face processing. Despite the extensive literature linking early experiences to face learning, it is unclear what aspects of experience are crucial and how individual differences in experience might lead to individual differences in face processing ability. In this talk, I will present recent findings from two lines of research in my lab. In the first line of research we use head-mounted cameras to document infants’ natural, daily exposure to faces from their own perspective. In the second line of research we investigate how face and emotion perception are influenced by experience with different face categories. Our findings demonstrate how differences in daily face exposure shape the development of face and emotion perception.

Publié le 10 mars 2016