Pressemeldung
Expertenvorträge zum Thema Wahrnehmung am 05.04.2012
Von: Prof. Dr. Tandra Ghose
The goal of this event is to raise awareness about the nature of visual perception amongst the residents of the city of Kaiserslautern. Leading scientists from five different countries will introduce interested listeners to the fascinating workings of the human mind and brain during the seemingly automatic process of "seeing".
Time: Thursday, April 5 from 16:00 to 19:30
Where: Fraunhofer Zentrum, Trippstadter Straße, Kaiserslautern
Contact: Prof. Dr. Tandra Ghose, e-mail: ghose[at]sowi.uni-kl.de
Language: All presentations will be in English
Wahrnehmung (Perception):
Most people believe that because seeing seems "effortless" for them there should be no question of potential scientific interest in this general area. After attending this series of talks, the audience will better appreciate the scientific principles underlying the simple act of "seeing”"and how psychologists use vision as a window to understand the processes underlying the functioning of the human brain, mind and even consciousness
About the speakers:
Every speaker is an eminent scientist in the field of visual perception, a principal investigator of a world-class laboratory, an author of numerous highly cited research articles that have revolutionized this area of research, a recipient of coveted research awards and honors, a Fellow of prestigious societies and an editor of journals with high impact factors.
Prof. Dr. Rob Van Lier (Netherlands)
- Discoverer of illusions such as "Filling in the Afterimage after the Image", "Catching Patches", "Spot the morphing face" that were finalists in the World’s Best Visual Illusion contest in 2005, 2006, 2008 and 2011. He is the winner of the first prize in this contest in 2008.
- Professor in Cognitive Psychology at the Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University Nijmegen.
- World renowned researcher on perceptual organization of color, lightness and form including, special populations, such as infants, autistic individuals and the visually disabled.
Prof. Dr. Walter Gerbino (Italy)
- Professor of Psychology at the University of Trieste.
- World renowned researcher on various aspects of perceptual organization including phenomenal transparency, form completion and apparent motion.
- Developed a model of interpolation that account for normal and anomalous trajectories of contours perceived behind occluders.
Prof. Dr. Mary Peterson (USA)
- Director of the Cognitive Science Program and Professor of Psychology at the University of Arizona in Tucson, Arizona, USA.
- World renowned researcher on the complex processes involved in visual perception of objects, faces and scenes using behavioral, psychophysiological, and imaging methods in normal and brain-damaged individuals.
- Chair of the Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Cognitive Science and serves on the Executive Committee of the School of Mind, Brain and Behavior at the University of Arizona (UA).
- Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science, and a Fellow of the American Psychological Association.
- An elected Member of the Society of Experimental Psychologists and the International Neuropsychological Symposium.
- Member of the Advisory Board the Women in Cognitive Science Society.
Prof. Dr. Johan Wagemans (Belgium)
- Professor and Head of the Laboratory of Experimental Psychology at the KU Leuven
- Recipient of the prestigious Methusalem grant awarded by the Flemish Government for research on visual perception.
- World renowned researcher on perceptual organization in the context of dynamical and hierarchical visual brain.
- He is responsible for a group of about 25 researchers studying basic problems in these areas, combining psychophysics, modeling and neuroimaging, as well as applications in art and autism.
Prof. Dr. Michael Herzog (Switzerland)
- Professor of psychophysics at the Brain Mind Institute (BMI) at the EPFL in Lausanne
- Born and educated in Germany (University of Erlangen, University of Tübingen)
- World renowned researcher who investigates visual perception with psychophysics and brain imaging.
- Theorist about the insufficiency of current models for explaining consciousness.
Prof. Dr. Stephen Palmer (USA)
- Professor of Psychology and Cognitive Science at UC Berkeley.
- Former Director of Institute of Cognitive Studies, U.C. Berkeley
- Author of Vision Science: Photons to Phenomenology, the book that revolutionized how visual perception is taught to undergraduate and graduate students in cognitive science, psychology, and optometry all around the world, with more than1600 citations on Google Scholar.
- Photographer (online gallery http://www.palmer-photoart.com ) whose style is deeply rooted in his interests in visual perception and the structure of light.
- World renowned researcher on visual aesthetics of color and spatial composition.
