About the program: Our group has been building cognitive models of human face and object processing for over ten years. We have shown how a specialized cortical processor for faces may arise through constraints present during development, how that specialized processor may become recruited for other expertise tasks, and how controversies regarding facial expression processing can be resolved through modeling. I will review some of these results in this talk, and if time permits, will address some future directions in my group's research.
About the Speaker: Garrison W. Cottrell is a Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at UC San Diego. Professor Cottrell's main interest is Cognitive Science, in particular, building working models of cognitive processes and using them to explain psychological or neurological processes. In recent years, he has focused upon face processing, including face recognition, face identification, and facial expression recognition. He has also worked in the areas of modeling psycholinguistic processes, such as language acquisition, reading, and word sense disambiguation. He received his PhD. in 1985 from the University of Rochester under James F. Allen (thesis title: A connectionist approach to word sense disambiguation). He then did a post doc with David E. Rumelhart at the Institute of Cognitive Science, UCSD, until 1987, when he joined the CSE Department.
Time/Place: Wednesday April 12, Wednesday 6:00 P.M. Lockheed Martin, 4770 Eastgate Mall San Diego, California 92121. Food served starting at 6:00 p.m., talk will begin sharply at 6:30. Directions and lecture background materials available at the SD CIS website. http://ewh.ieee.org/r6/san_diego/cis/
Free for IEEE members, $5 otherwise.
Reservations/Information: Andrew Diamond (IEEE CIS San Diego Chapter Chair) (858) 509-3115, adiamond@EnvisionSystemsLLC.com