{"id":76112,"date":"2022-01-20T09:23:01","date_gmt":"2022-01-20T14:23:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=76112"},"modified":"2022-01-20T16:18:34","modified_gmt":"2022-01-20T21:18:34","slug":"brock-expert-to-appear-on-the-nature-of-things-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2022\/01\/brock-expert-to-appear-on-the-nature-of-things-friday\/","title":{"rendered":"Brock expert to appear on The Nature of Things Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"

Catherine Mondloch, Professor of Psychology and Director of the Face Perception Lab<\/a> at Brock, will be featured in In Your Face<\/em>, a documentary premiering on CBC\u2019s The Nature of Things<\/em> this Friday.<\/p>\n

The documentary, written and directed by Josh Freed, explores how people recognize faces, how varied skills may be and how facial-recognition technology and artificial intelligence raises ethical questions and causes harm, especially among racialized groups.<\/p>\n

Mondloch\u2019s Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council-, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada- and Canada Foundation for Innovation-funded face-processing research examines an array of topics, including how people recognize faces at different ages, perception of emotions, forming first impressions and facial identification in applied settings.<\/p>\n

Her work was most recently shared with the Brock community at two public talks on children\u2019s ability to recognize faces<\/a> and facial recognition across the lifespan<\/a> in the Lifespan Development Research Institute\u2019s Speaker Series, both of which are available for viewing online through the series web page<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In Your Face<\/em> premieres Friday, Jan. 21 at 9 p.m. on CBC\u2019s The Nature of Things<\/em> and on the free streaming service, CBC GEM.<\/p>\n

Watch the trailer here:<\/p>\n