Dr Woo Pei Jun
Sunway University
Dr Woo Pei Jun is a Developmental Psychologist who has studied and worked in Malaysia and the United States. She obtained her bachelor's and master's degrees in Psychology from Ohio State and Boston University, USA and her PhD in Psychology from Universite Grenoble Alpes, France. Her work in the medical field has included attachments with Ohio State University Hospital, South Bay Mental Health Services, USA, University Hospital, Hospital Permai, and Sunway Medical Center, Malaysia.
Her areas of research have involved children behavioural and emotional problems, parenting issues and face perception. In addition, she has also been involved in rehabilitation of patients, developing ability test for children, early intervention programmes for children at risk, and parenting programs for young children. In her academic work, she has presented at several conferences and is the author of 4 books on mental health. She has spent several years in private practice and lecturing at University Kebangsaan Malaysia and Sunway University. Currently, she is the Head of Psychology Department at Sunway University.
Online Plenary Talk
Face Processing in a Multiracial Environment: Differential Experience in Face Recognition and Face Categorisation
The ability to recognize and categorise different faces proficiently may have social and evolutionary advantages. Most prior studies of face perception have been conducted in predominantly monoracial societies and only limited studies have looked at it from a multiracial aspect. This limitation has left open the question of whether tendencies to more rapidly and accurately categorize and recognise other-race faces reflect social categorization (own-race vs. other-race) or perceptual expertise (frequent exposure vs. infrequent exposure). The talk will discuss how differential experience affects the development of face processing, specifically in two areas: recognition and categorising of faces. To answer these questions, three studies were conducted: The effect of differential experience in infants face recognition; in children and adult face recognition and the effect of differential experience on children categorisation of faces.