14. March 2021
Our new paper Associations between self-reported and objective face recognition abilities are only evident in above- and below-average recognisers is now published in PeerJ. In that paper, we explore insights into face recognition abilities using the Mandarin version of the Prosopagnosia Index 20 (PI-20) and the Cambridge Face Memory Test Chinese (CFMT-Chinese). Previous studies using the PI-20 have shown that observers have moderate to strong insights into their face recognition abilities. In...
18. November 2019
Our new paper No evidence of other‐race effect for Chinese faces in Malaysian non‐Chinese population is now in press in Applied Cognitive Psychology. One of the best-replicated phenomenon in face processing research is the Other Race Effect (ORE). This effect shows that human are better recognizing faces of their own race compared to other race faces. The ORE has been classically explained in terms of experience. People tend to develop greater expertise with those faces that they...
08. November 2019
I have been awarded a Fundamental Research Grant Scheme (FRGS) by the Ministry of Education of Malaysia. The aim of the project is to explore the cognitive and neural mechanisms involved in solving single-digit multiplication. We will use a range of neuroscientific (eye-movements, functional magnetic resonance imaging, and transcranial electrical stimulation), behavioral (reaction times and accuracy measures), and educational (by comparing different multiplication-solving teaching methods)...
29. August 2019
The 15th Asian Pacific Conference on Vision was held in Osaka from the 29th of July to the 1st of August. I was invited to be part to be part of the symposium Unpacking cognitive and neural mechanisms underpinning the recognition and representations of unfamiliar and familiar faces and facial expressions: behavioral, eye movement and ERP studies, which was organized by Dr Kazuyo Nakabayashi (University of Hull) and brought different academics from Japan (Sakura Torii, Kobe Shoin Women’s...
23. September 2018
It has been a tough one, but finally it is published! Our paper Multisensory stimulation modulates perceptual and post perceptual face representations: Evidence from event‐related potentials is published now in the European Journal of Neuroscience. In this paper we explore the cognitive locus of the process of updating the own face representation. Our own face is not a static stimulus, but it changes as consequence of aging, grooming activities, etc. So to accommodate these changes our own...
30. July 2018
The 14th Asian Pacific Conference on Vision (APCV) was celebrated in Hangzhou (China). Researchers from all over the world attended and presented their research at this scientific meeting. This conference covers all the aspects of vision from low level vision (i.e., texture and shape perception) to more high level visual processes (i.e., object and face recognition). I gave an oral communication whereby I presented a study exploring the number of eye fixations required to recognize unfamiliar...
15. July 2018
The last 28th of May I gave a talk at the International Medical School (http://www.imu.edu.my/imu/), as part of the forum "Addressing Ethical issues in Neuropsychology". I focused my talk on the ethical challenges that a cognitive neuropsychologist face at the lab and how these might differ from those found at more clinical scenarios. I want to thank the organizers for their kind invitation. It was a big pleasure to be there.
29. January 2018
My colleagues from the University of Malaga (Spain) and I have recently published a review paper about the effects of transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) in the treatment of Aphasia. We reviewed 19 studies published between 2008 and 2016 which used tDCS to treat aphasia. In general, it seems that tDCS is safe and efficient way to improve the symptoms associated with this disorder. The effectiveness of tDCS is even superior when it is combined with neuropsychological therapy. This...
28. September 2017
This has been a summer full of conferences. In addition to the Asian Pacific Conference on Vision (APCV) in Tainan. I have attended at the European Conference for Visual Perception (ECVP) and to the Conference of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology (ESCoP), both in Germany. At ECVP, I presented some evidence showing that Malaysian-Chinese do not present an other race effect (the advantage to recognize own-race faces compared to other race-face). In addition, this population seems to...
17. July 2017
ACVP 2017 has been celebrated in the city of Tainan (Taiwan). ACVP is probably the most important conference in vision sciences in Asia and Australia. There have been a huge numbers of interesting talks and posters, covering from very low level to high level processes. I had the opportunity to present some data that I collected some time ago. Very glad that some people found the results interesting and encouraged me to send them for peer review publication.