Event overview
The sixth Whitehead lecture of Spring term 2011 will be given by Katsumi Watanabe, Associate Professor of Cognitive Science, at the Research Centre for Advanced Science and Technology, at the University of Tokyo, Japan.
Facial processing is considered to be one of the fundamental visual processes necessary for successful social interaction. It has therefore been assumed that face processing is largely universal among humans.
However, recent studies have accumulated to challenge the idea of strictly universal facial processing. In this talk, Katsumi Watanabe will present two on-going studies on real- and artificial-face processing from his laboratory. One study concerns eye movements during face observation in Japanese deaf people. The other study examines how people perceive and evaluate ambiguous faces of statues depicting Buddha (the Thousand Armed Kannon at the Hall of the Lotus King, a.k.a. Sanjûsangendô, Kyoto, Japan).
This study found several differences between Japanese and American observers in emotion and affective evaluations of the faces of Buddha statues.
Katsumi Watanabe is Associate Professor of Cognitive Science at the University of Tokyo. He received his PhD in Computation and Neural Systems from California Institute of Technology, in 2001, for his work in cross-modal interaction in humans. He was a research fellow at the National Institute of Health (USA) and a researcher at the National Institute of Advanced Science and Technology (Japan). His research interests include: scientific investigations of explicit and implicit processes, interdisciplinary approaches to cognitive science, and real-life applications of cognitive science.
Dates & times
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16 Mar 2011 | 4:00pm - 5:00pm |
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