Thesis supervisor: Márta Zimmer
Location of studies (in Hungarian): BME Department of Cognitive Science Abbreviation of location of studies: BME
Description of the research topic:
Faces are one of the most important - and from another point of view - most complex visual stimuli in our life. Not only do they have complicated three-dimensional structures, but they convey a multiple of perceptual data, including information about identity, gender, race, expression, and direction of gaze, among others. The perception of these above-mentioned features (or properties) is usually effortless even though faces have very similar structure as visual patterns. In recent years we have been studying situations where, for some reasons, decision making along the above-mentioned dimensions is difficult, and the decision itself is not correct. Some of the mistakes are natural/typical (e.g. noisy images) while in other cases the reason of the mistake is atypical face processing (face recognition disorder/prosopagnosia). In our research we have been mapping the behavioural and electrophysiological profile of typical and atypical mistakes in the case of neurotypicals and developmental/congenital prosopagnosics.
Németh, K., Kovács, P., Vakli, P., Kovács, G., Zimmer, M. (2014) Phase noise reveals early category-specific modulation of the event-related potentials. Front.Psychol. 5, 367. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00367
Németh, K./Zimmer, M., Schweinberger, S.R., Vakli, P., Kovács, G. (2014) The Background of Reduced Face Specificity of N170 in Congenital Prosopagnosia. PLoS ONE 9(7): e101393. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0101393
Zimmer, M., Németh, K., Kovács, P., Vakli, P., Kovács, G. (2014) Noise-induced perceptual processing demands in developmental prosopagnosia. ECVP 2014 poster, Belgrade, Serbia. Perception 43, supplement, p. 72.
Required language skills: english Number of students who can be accepted: 1
Deadline for application: 2024-05-31
2024. IV. 17. ODT ülés Az ODT következő ülésére 2024. június 14-én, pénteken 10.00 órakor kerül sor a Semmelweis Egyetem Szenátusi termében (Bp. Üllői út 26. I. emelet).
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