Devue Christel (ULiège): "How individual facial factors and context may affect the development of cost-efficient facial representations"

Monday 28 Oct 2024, 14:00 → 15:00 Europe/Brussels

B-30/0-000 - Big meeting room (CRC)

Abstract : Humans can recognize thousands of faces (Jenkins et al., 2018) despite inherent human memory limitations. The way we get to know faces and the content of memory representations required to recognise new exemplars of so many individuals remain largely unknown. In this talk, I will present recent findings suggesting that the development and quality of facial representations in real-world settings or in the lab may vary following cost-efficient principles. These likely take into account factors such as the stability of a person's appearance, the presence of distinctive features, or contextual influences. I will briefly discuss potential implications for the development of facial algorithms and the study of neural correlates of facial recognition.

Bio : After obtaining a doctorate in Psychological Sciences at ULiège in 2008 on visual self-face recognition, Christel Devue did a post-doctorate under an F.R.S-FNRS mandate at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam on the attentional deployment towards complex visual stimuli. She then conducted research on cognitive control and facial recognition and taught for a number of years at the Victoria University of Wellington (New Zealand). After a two years stint as an analyst in law enforcement in Wellington, she returned to ULiège in September 2021 to teach cognitive psychology and neuroscience. She is now pursuing her research on human face learning, with a keen interest in individual differences (e.g. in developmental prosopagnosia or portrait artists).

 

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