Le Centre de Neurosciences Système et Cognition (NeuroCs), et l'Institute of NeuroScience (IoNS) et l'Institut de Psychologie (IPSY) ont le plaisir de vous inviter au séminaire donné par Irving Biederman (University of Southern California).
Afin de vous mettre en appétit, voici un résumé de son exposé:
"Whereas people can readily describe the differences between two highly similar objects (such as birds on the same page in a bird guide), they are at a loss in describing the difference between the faces of Tom Cruise and John Travolta. A remarkably simple account, based on early cortical (i.e., Gabor-jet) spatial filtering, may be able to explain the ineffability of faces and a wide variety of other phenomena distinguishing face from object recognition, such as why the recognition of faces, but not objects, is so severely disrupted by contrast negation (as when viewing a photographic negative) and orientation inversion, why faces, but not objects, are represented “configurally” (and what could “configural” possibly mean in neurocomputational terms?), and the nature of the deficit in prosopagnosia whereby the afflicted individual complains not that faces look blurry or otherwise degraded but that they all look the same."
Time:13pm
Place: SOC-240, Louvain-la-Neuve
Pour plus de renseignement sur sa recherche, vous pouvez consulter le site http://geon.usc.edu/~biederman/