Research into the Ageing Brain at the University of Glasgow

Research into the Ageing Brain at the University of Glasgow We are looking for participants aged 30+ for a series of experiments investigating emotion perception. Contact [email protected] for more details.

It is estimated that, by 2060, one quarter of the British population will be over 65, many of whom may still be working. The brain ages as dramatically as the body over a lifetime, but despite this relatively little is known about how this might affect us. We do know that one thing affected is how our brain deals with social interaction, but we want to know why this is and what this may mean for a

ll our futures. While it is known that the face carries a lot of social information, most research on how the brain processes of faces has been done with static images. Thanks to recent developments in 4 dimensional (4-D) graphics, we can use more realistic images to help us with our research. Here at the UoG School of Psychology we want to put together a database of 3D scanned faces of all ages that can be used as a resource for several researchers in the department. Capturing a face takes ~10 seconds and participants are asked to complete a heritage questionnaire so we can see what their cultural background is. The whole process is really quick and the faces captured could be used to help in our research- you could even take home a picture of your 3D face if you fancy! Students around 20-25 are in abundance at Glasgow Uni, as you can imagine, but really people over 50 that we’d like to capture now. So if you, or anyone you know is interested please hit ‘Like’ and share with your friends!

17/02/2020

For the first time, an intervention - lifting weights - has been able to slow and even halt degeneration, over a long period, in brain areas particularly vulnerable to Alzheimer's disease.

Networking with the undergrads!
17/03/2016

Networking with the undergrads!

17/03/2016
22/10/2015

Magda and Guillaume's article on visual object processing speed over the life span is now out!
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ejn.13100/abstract

Accepted Article (Accepted, unedited articles published online and citable. The final edited and typeset version of record will appear in future.)

04/06/2015

Face facts exhibit at the Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition 2015

Our paper is now available on line. Many thanks to those who contributed to different aspects of this projecthttp://...
14/11/2014

Our paper is now available on line. Many thanks to those who contributed to different aspects of this projecthttp://www.cell.com/current-biology/abstract/S0960-9822(14)01271-8

For the reverse correlation experiment, we added to a single base face random Gabor noise generated with random amplitudes of Gabor filters that recursively tiled the image across six spatial scales. Mental Representations: we averaged the mental representations across younger and older participants…

14/06/2013

We have tea and cake for potential, ( and already signed up) participants in the Psychology department,( 58 Hillhead street) from about 12:30 today(14th)! Come along and meet the scientists, and find out about the project.

07/05/2013

Scanning event coming soon with presentations by Prof. Stephany Biello and Dr. Guillaume Rousselet!

05/03/2013

Hi Everybody, please check in and do our on-line age perception experiment. Unfortunately, you still have to register via the participants button from the psychology
webpage, to be able to do the experiment.


Here's a link to the online experiments page:

http://marc-web.psy.gla.ac.uk/online2

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