每周论坛之九（总第205期）：潘静&陈娅旎（中山大学），2019年4月22日下午

每周论坛之九（总第205期）

报告人：潘静 副教授、陈娅旎 硕士

报告人单位：中山大学心理学系

题目：具身记忆

时间：2019年4月22日 （周一，14:20-16:00）

地点：中山大学东校园心理学系（南学院楼C座）305

报告简介：

     When there is motion (either an object in the environment is moving, or the observer is moving in an otherwise stationary environment), two sources of information are available to the observer: optic flow and image structure. Optic flow is the motion pattern produced at an eye when the environment moves relative to it; it specifies 3D structure, but ceases to exist when motion stops. Image structure is the spatial layout projected to the eye when the environment stays stationary relative to it; it is less powerful in specifying 3D structure, but is stable. In vision, optic flow and image structure are intrinsically related because optic flow carries one image to the next, and their combination makes perception most effective. By offloading the information provided by ephemeral optic flow to an external image structure, observers are able to access the spatial information provided by optic flow and act accordingly without having to hold it all in the head. In this way, image structure becomes an embodied memory system for situated, active observers (Pan, Bingham, & Bingham, 2013).

       The combination of optic flow and image structure has been demonstrated to allow efficient perception of object locations (Pan, Bingham, & Bingham, 2013, 2017) and daily events (Pan & Bingham, 2013), and is shown to enable accurate and stable perception of metric shape (defined as the aspect ratio of depth/width) in our recent studies.  

报告人简介：

      Dr Jing S. Pan (潘静) is a cognitive psychologist and the Associate Chairperson of Department of Psychology at Sun Yat-Sen University. She has a rather varied and exciting background including Communication Studies (B.A.) in Nanyang Technological University, Psychology (M.A.) in University of Chicago, and Cognitive Psychology (Ph.D) and Statistics (Ph.D) in Indiana University, and now her research focuses on perception and action. Her work has been published on classic high-quality journals, such as Journal of Experimental Psychology – Human Perception and Performance, Journal of Vision, and Optometry and Vision Science. She also teaches some much-loved (though challenging) courses on Cognitive Psychology, Brain, Body, and Environment, and English for Psychologists.

       Yani Chen (陈娅旎) is currently a master student working in Dr Pan’s Perception and Action lab. During her undergraduate years in Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, she became interested in behavioral economics and was gradually allured to the field of psychology through a series of lucky coincidences. Now she is studying shape perception using the Gibsonian approach here at Sun Yat-Sen University. With Dr Pan’s support and encouragement, she has presented her work at the annual meeting of Vision Sciences Society in America and the National Academic Congress of Psychology in China.