Adrian Schwaninger

University of Zurich

Department of Psychology

General Psychology (Cognition)

Visual Cognition Research Group

www.psychologie.unizh.ch/vicoreg

Max Planck Institute

 for Biological Cybernetics

 Cognitive and Computational

 Psychophysics Department 

 www.kyb.tuebingen.mpg.de/~aschwan

Education

1999-2003

Doctoral Thesis at the University of Zurich, Switzerland (1999-2003) and the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany (2001-2003). Thesis title: “Perception and Representation of Faces”

1999-2002

Graduate Program Cognitive Psychology Switzerland (01.11.199931.03.2003)

1997

Internship, Institute for Psychobiology, University Autonoma, Madrid, Spain

1991-1999

Studies of psychology, neuropsychology, neurophysiology, and computer science at the University of Zurich. Thesis Title (Lizentiat, equivalent to Master's Degree): “Processing of component and configural information and mental rotation of faces: Testing hypotheses for the face inversion effect”

1984-1990

Kantonsschule Winterthur (Matura Typus B)

 Main Research Areas

Aviation Security Human Factors
Face and Object Recognition,
Visual Cognition
Human Computer Interaction

 Publications
(僅部份摘錄，欲知更多訊息：http://www.psychologie.unizh.ch/vicoreg/publications/index.htm)

Hayward, W.G., Rhodes, G., & Schwaninger, A. (in press). An own-race advantage for components as well as configurations in face recognition. Cognition.

Schwaninger, A., Vogel, J., Hofer, F., & Schiele, B. (2006). Psychophysically plausible computational modelling of scene typicality. ACM Transactions on Applied Perception, 3(4), 333–353.

Vogel, J., Schwaninger, A., Wallraven, C., & Bulthoff, H.H. (2006). Categorization of natural scenes: local vs. global information. Proceedings of the 3rd Symposium on Applied Perception in Graphics and Visualization, ACM Press, New York, USA, 33-40.

Schwaninger, A., Wallraven, C., & Cunningham, D.W., & Chiller-Glaus, S. (2006). Processing of identity and emotion in faces: A psychophysical, physiological and computational perspective. Progress in Brain Research, 156, 321-343.

Lobmaier, J., Fischer, M., & Schwaninger, A. (2006). Objects influence perceived gaze direction. Experimental Psychology, 53(2), 117-122.

[TOP]

Title: Processing of component and configural information in faces

1. Hayward, W.G., Rhodes, G., & Schwaninger, A. (in press). An own-race advantage for components as well as configurations in face recognition. Cognition.[PDF]
   　

2. Schwaninger, A., Carbon, C.C., & Leder, H. (2003). Expert face processing: Specialization and constraints. In G. Schwarzer & H. Leder, Development of face processing  (pp. 81-97),  Göttingen: Hogrefe. [PDF]
    

3. Schwaninger, A., Ryf, S., & Hofer, F. (2003). Configural information is processed differently in perception and recognition of faces. Vision Research, 43,  1501-1505.[PDF]

Title: Psychophysical and computational modelling of face processing and scene perception

1. Schwaninger, A., Wallraven, C., & Cunningham, D.W., & Chiller-Glaus, S. (2006). Processing of identity and emotion in faces: A psychophysical, physiological and computational perspective. Progress in Brain Research, 156, 321-343.[PDF]
     

2. Schwaninger, A., Vogel, J., Hofer, F., & Schiele, B. (2006). A psychophysically plausible model for typicality ranking of natural scenes.  ACM Transactions on Applied Perception, 3(4), 333–353.[PDF]
   　

3. Wallraven, C., Schwaninger, A., & Bülthoff, H. H. (2005). Learning from humans: computational modeling of face recognition. Network: Computation in Neural Systems, 16(4), 401-418.[PDF]