We are looking for participants aged 30+ for a series of experiments investigating emotion perception. Contact [email protected] for more details.
It is estimated that, by 2060, one quarter of the British population will be over 65, many of whom may still be working. The brain ages as dramatically as the body over a lifetime, but despite this relatively little is known about how this might affect us. We do know that one thing affected is how our brain deals with social interaction, but we want to know why this is and what this may mean for a
17/02/2020
Brain and Brawn: Hitting the Gym Slows Neurodegeneration in Older People At Risk of Alzheimer's For the first time, an intervention - lifting weights - has been able to slow and even halt degeneration, over a long period, in brain areas particularly vulnerable to Alzheimer's disease.
17/03/2016
Networking with the undergrads!
17/03/2016
Magda and Guillaume's article on visual object processing speed over the life span is now out!
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ejn.13100/abstract
A robust and representative lower bound on object processing speed in humans - Bieniek -... Accepted Article (Accepted, unedited articles published online and citable. The final edited and typeset version of record will appear in future.)
04/06/2015
Face facts Face facts exhibit at the Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition 2015
05/12/2014
The paper is is officially published, complete with video abstract number 44, on Current Biology's playlist.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLD860DB4CD231C21F
We have also joined up with the Garner network, with is launching next weekhttp://www.gla.ac.uk/researchinstitutes/bahcm/research/sigs/garner/events/headline_370565_en.html
14/11/2014
Our paper is now available on line. Many thanks to those who contributed to different aspects of this projecthttp://www.cell.com/current-biology/abstract/S0960-9822(14)01271-8
With Age Comes Representational Wisdom in Social Signals: Current Biology For the reverse correlation experiment, we added to a single base face random Gabor noise generated with random amplitudes of Gabor filters that recursively tiled the image across six spatial scales. Mental Representations: we averaged the mental representations across younger and older participants…
We have tea and cake for potential, ( and already signed up) participants in the Psychology department,( 58 Hillhead street) from about 12:30 today(14th)! Come along and meet the scientists, and find out about the project.
12/06/2013
http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/home-news/volunteers-sought-for-ageing-research.21317462
Volunteers sought for ageing research | Herald Scotland The team from the Institute of Neurosciences and Psychology at Glasgow University are looking for men and women aged 55 and over to join the study, which involves identifying emotional states from facial expressions.
Scanning event coming soon with presentations by Prof. Stephany Biello and Dr. Guillaume Rousselet!
Hi Everybody, please check in and do our on-line age perception experiment. Unfortunately, you still have to register via the participants button from the psychology
webpage, to be able to do the experiment.
Here's a link to the online experiments page:
http://marc-web.psy.gla.ac.uk/online2