ORGANIZERS:

Galia Avidan (Ben-Gurion University)
Hillel Aviezer (The Hebrew University)
Tzvi Ganel (Ben-Gurion University)
Galit Yovel (Tel Aviv University)

 

Person recognition is a highly important skill for normal social functioning. To date, most of the research on this topic has focused on face processing, as faces convey rich information about a person, including their identity, age, gender and emotional state. Similar to faces, bodies and voices also convey information about a person's identity, gender, expression and age. Whereas in real life all are available to enable person recognition, bodies, voices and their interactions with faces have not been as extensively studied as faces. Interestingly, in the past decade, similar to faces, neural selectivity has been reported for bodies and for voices in both human and monkey brains. These findings have inspired further research on the mechanisms used for body or voice processing as well as their interactions with faces, which enables the generation of a rich and multimodal representation of a person.

While the study of these multiple aspects of person recognition is only in its infancy, it is rapidly expanding. Thus, the goal of the workshop is to bring together leading scientists in this evolving field. This includes scientists who focus on face, body or voice recognition as well as the interaction among them by employing various methodological approaches including neuroimaging, behavioral, eye tracking and computational techniques in healthy individuals as well as in individuals with impaired person processing. In addition to discussing the mechanisms allowing person identification, the workshop will also focus on how people extract and interpret emotional and social information from these stimuli.

 

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SPEAKERS:

Galia Avida, Ben-Gurion University
Hillel Aviezer, The Hebrew University
Pascal Belin, Aix Marseille University
Roberto Caldara, University of Fribourg
Paul Downing, Bangor University
Brad Duchaine, Dartmouth University
Winrich Freiwald, Rockefeller University
Tzvi Ganel, Ben-Gurion University
Isabel Gauthier, Vanderblit University
Guido Gainotti, Universita Cattolica of Rome
Ida Gobbini, Dartmouth College
Kalanit Grill-Spector, Stanford University
James Haxby, Dartmouth University
Rutie Kimchi, University of Haifa
Rafi Malach, Weizmann Institute
Ruti Mayo, The Hebrew University
Morris Moscovitch, University of Toronto
Alice O'Toole, University of Dallas
David Pitcher, National Institute of Mental Health
Bruno Rossion, Universite Catholiqe de Louvain
Stephen Schweinberger, Jena University
Alex Todorov, Princeton University
Shimon Ullman, Weizmann Institute
Patrik Vuilleumier, University of Geneva
Lior Wolf, Tel Aviv University
Galit Yovel, Tel Aviv University
Udi Zohary, The Hebrew University