Research

Research projects

• The role of temporal context in face recognition (Gyula Kovács)
• Face learning (Jürgen M. Kaufmann)
• Voice perception (Stefan R. Schweinberger)
• Interactions of visual and auditory information in gender and ethnicity perception (Melanie C. Steffens)
• Neural mechanisms of processing emotional information from faces and voices under attentional load (Thomas Straube, Wolfgang H.R. Miltner)
• Effects of age and ageing on face memory and perception (Holger Wiese)

Labs of the Research Unit

• Behavioural lab
• 64-channel EEG lab
• High resolution eyetracker
• 3D-Camera system

Collaborative Research Facilities

• 3T-MRI facility
• Magnetoencephalography
• Audio-visual Lab

Associated investigators

• Rainer Banse, Bonn, Germany
• Mike Burton, Aberdeen, UK
• Joachim Denzler, Jena, Germany
• Christian Dobel, Münster, Germany
• Orlando Guntinas-Lichius, Jena, Germany
• Rob Jenkins, Glasgow, UK
• Nadine Kloth, Perth, Australia
• Markus F. Neumann, Jena, Germany
• Jürgen R. Reichenbach, Jena, Germany
• Gillian Rhodes, Perth, Australia
• Ulrich Stangier, Frankfurt, Germany
• James W. Tanaka, Victoria, Canada

Scientific network

• Pascal Belin, Glasgow, UK
• Markus Bindemann, Kent, UK
• Vicki Bruce, Newcastle, UK
• Howard Giles, Santa Barbara, USA
• Monika Harvey, Glasgow, UK
• Rik Henson, Cambridge, UK
• Roxane J. Itier, Waterloo, Canada
• Hideki Kawahara, Wakayama, Japan
• Markus Kiefer, Ulm, Germany
• Steve Langton, Stirling, UK
• Michal Lavidor, Bar-Ilan, Israel
• Hartmut Leuthold, Tübingen, Germany
• Rasha Abdel Rahman, Berlin, Germany
• Werner Sommer, Berlin, Germany
• Zoltan Vidnyanszky, Budapest, Hungary
• Herbert Witte, Jena, Germany