Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0984558

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP0984558

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Integrating holistic processing and face-space approaches to the perception of facial identity. Recognising faces is a socially crucial task, and humans are remarkably good at it. Scientists investigating the 'software' our brains use to recognise faces have referred to two different theories -- one when explaining why we distinguish faces better than objects, and the other in explaining why we distinguish some people's faces more easily than others. The project aims to integrate these two theories. This has two potential long-term benefits: it will give a stronger basis for understanding what goes wrong in people where face recognition does not develop normally; and, the improved knowledge from a biological system may also lead to improved computer face recognition algorithms (eg. for airport security).

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 19-04-2009

End Date: 18-10-2014

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $475,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Biological Psychology (Neuropsychology, Psychopharmacology, Physiological Psychology) | Psychology | Learning, Memory, Cognition And Language | Sensory Processes, Perception And Performance |

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Mathematical sciences

Other Keywords

Biological Psychology (Neuropsychology, Psychopharmacology, Physiological Psychology) | Learning, Memory, Cognition And Language | Mathematical sciences | Psychology | Sensory Processes, Perception And Performance

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