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January 17, 2008

Many Faces of a Face - Neuroesthetics

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This Saturday at UC Berkeley the Seventh International Conference on Neuroesthetics will feature renowned scientists discuss the brain’s responses to identity of faces, social perception, neural basis of facial expression processing and aesthetics of human faces. Talks have the following titles: "Perceiving the Actions, Goals and Intentions of Others: Brain Mechanisms for Social Perception", "Face blindness: the perceptual and neural bases of prosopagnosia", "The Gender, Ethnicity and Individual Identity of Faces", "In the Eye of the Beholder: How Personality Affects the Neural Basis of Facial Expression Processing", "Colour and Aesthetics of Human Faces", "Normal and abnormal face processing in human observers", "Neural basis of face perception in humans", "Make Faces: Automatically Transfer Expressions Between Characters." See you there.

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