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Position: Professor - Research School Of Psychology
School and/or Centres: ANU College of Health and Medicine
Email: Elinor.McKone@anu.edu.au
Researcher profile: https://researchers.anu.edu.au/researchers/mckone-e
- Psychology
- Facial recognition in humans
- Using our theoretical knowledge of how faces are processed to develop methods for improving recognition of faces in the 'bionic eye' and in people with age-related macular degeneration.
- Finding out how the various perceptual mechanisms of face recognition develop across childhood.
- Studying why memory for faces of a different race from ourselves is usually poor, and what can be done to improve it.
- Using adaptation aftereffects to reveal how faces are coded neurally within 'face-space'.
- Many studies of 'holistic processing', e.g., whether this is specific to faces, how it is affected by the race of the face, whether and how it develops across childhood.
- Studying why some people are much better than others at recognising faces, including the relationship of individual ability to different perceptual mechanisms, and to psychosocial and demographic variables such as social anxiety, depression, callous-unemotional traits, and aging.
