By Anne Craig, Communications Officer

Twenty years of research into how the human brain processes visual information has earned Nikolaus Troje (Psychology, Biology, School of Computing) the Humboldt Research Award, an honour established by the German government to recognize a lifetime of achievement.

 카지노 게임 컬렉션�I feel very honoured having received a lifetime recognition award without having a single grey hair yet,카지노 게임 컬렉션� says Dr. Troje, who was nominated for the award by colleague Karl Gegenfurtner from the 카지노게임사이트 of Giessen.

Using the sensors shown below, Nikolaus Troje uses motion capture technology to study how people move.

Dr. Troje operates the at Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션�s, studying visual perception and cognition using motion capture technology. The goal of his research is to answer questions concerning social recognition including processing visual information contained in the way people walk and move, specifically the subtle nuances that signal emotions and personality.

Dr. Troje started his career working on visual systems of insects, and later on face recognition in humans. As a postdoctoral fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics in Tübingen, he met Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션�s professor Barrie Frost during a conference in Germany who invited him to come to Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션�s and study visual recognition in pigeons. He spent two years in Kingston before moving back to Germany where he founded the Biomotion Lab at Ruhr 카지노게임사이트. In 2003, Dr. Troje accepted the position of Canada Research Chair in Vision and Behavioural Sciences at Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션�s where he continues his research today.

The motion sensors used in his research.

카지노 게임 컬렉션�Understanding how our visual system obtains information about other people from the way they move is just one example of the amazing ability of our perceptual systems to turn neuronal activity in response to external energies into the objects and events that form our perception of the outside world,카지노 게임 컬렉션� he says.

Dr. Troje is now preparing for a one year sabbatical in Germany where he will spend time at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Tübingen and at the JustusLiebig 카지노게임사이트 in Giessen.