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Meike Ramon @meikeramon.bsky.social · 23d

Open Access paper now available here:

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Super-Recognizers, or Su-Perceivers? Insights from fast periodic visual stimulation (FPVS) EEG - Brain Topography

The term Super-Recognizer (SR), which describes individuals with supposedly superior facial recognition abilities, may be something of a misnomer. In the same way that blind individuals would not be c...

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Reposted by Meike Ramon

Marta Gerosa @martager.bsky.social · 27d

Check out our new article for young readers (ages 8-15) on heart-brain interactions and interoception! 🧠🫀

I had so much fun co-writing this with @agatapatyczek.bsky.social @el-rei.bsky.social with the support of @michaelgaebler.com ✍️

👉 Share it widely with curious young minds
Yay for #scicomm ✨

Mind-Body-Emotion Group @mbe-lab.bsky.social · 27d

🧠🫀 New from our lab on Frontiers for Young Minds:

Ever wondered how the heart and brain communicate? Think the heart as the drummer 🥁 & the brain as the singer 🎤 keeping the body's band in tune!

Read here (for ages 8–15): kids.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frym.2025.1536787/full
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The Body’s Band: How Heart and Brain Communicate

Illustration of a person with vitiligo practicing yoga, sitting cross-legged and stretching an arm over their head. In a thought bubble, a smiling brain sings into a microphone and a heart plays a dru...

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Meike Ramon @meikeramon.bsky.social · Sep 4

#Women in #Science - an honest account of our individual journeys. For anyone and everyone interested in #Academia, with all its flavors and frictions, should read this.

#OpenAccess book 👉 lnkd.in/dwVftyb8

Attend the book launch 👉 lnkd.in/d2um5HyQ

@bfh-ch.bsky.social @snsf.ch

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Meike Ramon @meikeramon.bsky.social · Sep 4

Interested in #EEG #FPVS #FaceLearning?

*An Ecological and Objective Neural Marker of Implicit Learning of Unfamiliar Identities*

Preprint 👉 osf.io/preprints/ps...

@bfh-ch.bsky.social University of Malta @snsf.ch

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Meike Ramon @meikeramon.bsky.social · Aug 29

Full access link here:

link.springer.com/epdf/10.1007...

Super-Recognizers, or Su-Perceivers? Insights from fast periodic visual stimulation (FPVS) EEG

link.springer.com

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Meike Ramon @meikeramon.bsky.social · Aug 28

Hot off the press: 1st ever #FPVS #EEG investigation into #SuperRecognizers

Congrats to my amazing collaborators Jeff Nador, Kim Uittenhove & Dario Gordillo and thanks to all #police SRs & control participants!

@bfh-ch.bsky.social, EPFL, @snsf.ch, Polizei Berlin

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Super-Recognizers, or Su-Perceivers? Insights from fast periodic visual stimulation (FPVS) EEG - Brain Topography

The term Super-Recognizer (SR), which describes individuals with supposedly superior facial recognition abilities, may be something of a misnomer. In the same way that blind individuals would not be c...

link.springer.com

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Meike Ramon @meikeramon.bsky.social · Aug 5

Preprint 👉 osf.io/urvzy Thanks to Linda Ficco & Berlin Police

@snsf.ch @bfh-ch.bsky.social

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Meike Ramon @meikeramon.bsky.social · Aug 5

🧠 #Neural #Reliability as a Marker of Face Processing Ability: Insights from Berlin Police #SuperRecognizers 🧠

- 11 SRs
- 3 #FPVS EEG experiments
- 8 challenging & professionally relevant face processing tests
- each SR Tested 2x - with a 2.5y gap

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Volker Dellwo @volkerdellwo.bsky.social · Mar 3

We have to PhD positions in Voice Communication Sciences (VoCS) vailble right now. Deadline for applications is mid March. Contact me if you want to discuss your application.

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Meike Ramon @meikeramon.bsky.social · Jan 14

Thanks Tal! ☺️

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Holger Wiese @wieseholger.bsky.social · Nov 18

New review paper on familiar face recognition with Gyula Kovács and Stefan Schweinberger. We review recent EEG/ERP findings and present an updated theoretical approach.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The Neural Dynamics of Familiar Face Recognition

Humans are highly efficient at recognising familiar faces. However, previous EEG/ERP research has given a partial and fragmented account of the neural…

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Meike Ramon @meikeramon.bsky.social · Jan 14

This warrants more nuanced & bespoke testing criteria for their deployment in practical applications.

Preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps...

Thanks to my amazing collaborators Jeff Nador, Kim Uittenhove & Dario Gordillo, and all #police participants!

@unil.bsky.social @snsf-ch.bsky.social EPFL

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Meike Ramon @meikeramon.bsky.social · Jan 14

We report 2 key findings...

1. Whichever factors distinguish SRs from controls, they are not face-specific.

2. SRs are not all cut from the same cloth. Rather, the factors distinguishing SRs from controls seem to be individual-specific.

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Meike Ramon @meikeramon.bsky.social · Jan 14

What's special about a #SuperRecognizer (SR) #brain?

Testing lab-identified SRs from the #BerlinPolice with 3 Fast Periodic Visual Stimulation #FPVS #EEG experiments, we targeted general visual & face-specific processing.

FPVS: general methodology & experiments. Top: Schematic of a 6Hz visual stimulation frequency involving presentation of five base stimuli (b) and one oddball stimulus (o) per cycle. Bottom: Schematic of the three experiments: 1 Face Identity Discrimination; 2. Category Selectivity; 3. Duty Cycle

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Meike Ramon @meikeramon.bsky.social · Dec 18

Interested in #Deepfakes and natural #face #identity processing? Check out our latest paper:

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Thanks to my amazing collaborators Kim Uittenhove, Hatef Otroshi, Sébastien Marcel

@unil.bsky.social @icepfl.bsky.social @idiapo.bsky.social @snsf-ch.bsky.social

Natural and synthetic faces used by Uittenhove et al. (2024, Computers in Human Behavior Reports)

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Meike Ramon @meikeramon.bsky.social · Nov 13

Please add me, too!

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Meike Ramon @meikeramon.bsky.social · Nov 7

Introduce yourself with some jobs you have done apart from what you do now:

Babysitter
Paper girl
Bartender
Waitress
Hairdresser assistant
Sales assistant
Promotor
Horse minder
Tutor
PR intern
Clinical intern
Research assistant
Editorial assistant

Andrea Stocco @andreastocco.com · Nov 7

Introduce yourself with some jobs you have done apart from what you do now:

Waiter
Roofer
Yellow pages delivery person (!)
Radio interviewer
Java instructor (for continuing education)
Project manager (in a startup!)
Movie critic
Horse sitter
Research scientist

BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · Sep 24

Introduce yourself with some jobs you have done apart from what you do now:

Hobby shop sales/assistant
Burger flipper
Waiter
Line cook
Sous chef
Mechanic
Aerial photographer
Analyst
Neurodiagnostics technician
Photojournalist
Research Scientist

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