Research Interests
I am interested in the speed and efficiency of face and object recognition and how these processes are influenced by visual experience. In object recognition, experience in discriminating different objects of a particular kind is often accompanied by altered visual processing. For example, bird breeders with longterm experience identifying individual birds in their aviaries exhibit face-like inversion effects which have been largely attributed to holistic visual processing. In face recognition, experience with particular face identities (personally familiar faces) confers processing advantages for those faces, and familiar faces elicit stronger electrophysiological responses in occipito-temporal regions associated with face processing.
My current research seeks to determine both the minimum exposure duration and processing time required for face identity recognition using both psychophysical and electrophysiological approaches.
Contact
campbel1@uvic.c
Cornett A081
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Publications
Campbell, A., Louw, R., Michniak, E., & Tanaka, J. (2020) Identity-specific neural responses to three categories of face familiarity (own, friend, stranger) using fast periodic visual stimulation. Neuropsychologia, 141. PDF
Tanaka, J. W., Heptonstall, B., & Campbell, A. (2019). Part and whole face representations in immediate and long-term memory. Vision Research, 164, 53-61. PDF
Campbell, A., & Tanaka, J. W. (2018). Inversion impairs expert budgerigar identity recognition: a face-like effect for a non-face object of expertise. Perception, 47(6), 647-659. PDF
Campbell, A., & Tanaka, J. W. (2018). Decoupling category level and perceptual similarity in congenital prosopagnosia. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 35(1-2), 63-65. PDF
Presentations
Campbell, A. & Tanaka, J. W. (2019). Electrophysiological responses to the own-face and personally familiar faces differ in magnitude compared to unfamiliar faces. Presented at Annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, St. Petersburg, Florida.
Campbell, A. & Tanaka, J. W. (2018). Dissociating unfamiliar and familiar face discrimination processes over the course of natural familiarization. Presented at Annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, St. Petersburg, Florida. J. of Vision, 18, 1234-1234.
Campbell, A. & Tanaka, J. W. (2017). Task effects on perceived identity of unfamiliar faces in open card sorting. Presented at Annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, St. Petersburg, Florida. J. of Vision, 17(10), 999-999.
Campbell, A. & Tanaka, J. W. (2016). Rapid category learning: Naturalized images to abstract categories. Presented at Annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, St. Petersburg, Florida. J. of Vision, 16(12), 400-400.
Campbell, A. & Tanaka, J. W. (2015). Individual differences in antisocial and prosocial traits predict perception of dynamic expression. Presented at Annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, St. Petersburg, Florida. J. of Vision, 15(12), 1374-1374.
Awards
Postgraduate Scholarship-Doctoral, National Science and Research Council of Canada (NSERC) (2019)
President’s Research Scholarship, University of Victoria (2019)
University of Victoria Graduate Award for Community-Engaged Research (2019)
OPAM Travel Award (2017)
Undergraduate Summer Research Award, National Science and Research Council of Canada (NSERC) (2015)