Emotient Video Created by UC San Diego's Technology Transfer Office
UC San Diego's Technology Transfer Office has created a video that highlights private industry partner, Emotient, and their facial expression recognition software. The company, started by TDLC's Drs. Marni Bartlett, Javier Movellan, and Gwen Littlewort, emerged out of the University's multidisciplinary environment that enables this type of innovation. Watch the video! In addition, Emotient was recently granted a patent to automate facial expression analytics.

Congressional Briefing on the Science of Learning
TDLC Co-Director Andrea Chiba and Project Scientist Alex Khalil will go to Washington, D.C. to co-host a Congressional Briefing on the Science of Learning, on June 24, 2015. Other Science of Learning Directors Patricia Kuhl (University of Washington), Nora Newcombe (Temple University) and Barbara Shinn-Cunningham (Boston University) will also present results from the research in order to raise awareness of the importance of this research. The event is co-sponsored by Congressional Representative Chaka Fattah of the 2nd district of Pennsylvania. Fattah is a ranking member of the Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies. View invite

TDLC Awards!

Isabel Gauthier Named 2015 Southeastern Conference (SEC) Professor of the Year!
This award is given annually to one SEC faculty member whose "record of teaching, research and scholarship places him or her among the elite in higher education." she is also a recipient of the 2015 SEC Faculty Achievement Award (4/29/15) More

TDLC's Marlene Behrmann Elected To National Academy of Sciences (NAS)! 
Dr. Behrmann is the first female scientist from Carnegie Mellon University to be elected to the NAS. (4/28/15)  More

Board of Governors Appoints April A. Benasich First Holder of The Elizabeth H. Solomon Endowed Chair in Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience (2/3/15) More




TDLC Investigator Dr. Robert Clark Wins Vizzie Award
Dr. Clark recently received an 'Expert's Choice' Vizzie Award in the Posters and Graphics category for his poster titled "Hippocampal Neurons." The Vizzie awards "mark completion of the first NSF and Popular Science challenge collaboration that celebrates the use of visual media to clearly and accessibly communicate scientific data and research." More

TDLC Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) student, Parker Cohn, won first place in the San Diego Social Innovation Challenge 2015 with his H2gO water purification project! Learn more about his project 

Teaching Emotional Skills to Children with Autism
TDLC's Jim Tanaka at the University of Victoria is partnering with Marni Bartlett at the University of Victoria to create an exciting, innovative software game to help children with autism spectrum with their facial emotions using a state-of-the-art computer technology, Emotient Analytics. Click here to read more about this and other TDLC 2014-2015 Highlights

Using Automated Facial Expression Recognition Technology to Distinguish Between Cortical and Subcortical Facial Motor Control
Researchers at UC San Diego, University at Buffalo, and University of Toronto, have developed a computer vision system that distinguishes faked from genuine facial expressions of pain. The system outperformed human observers, who had at most a 55 percent success rate, even with training, whereas a computer vision and pattern recognition system was accurate about 85 percent of the time.
Click here to read more about this and other TDLC 2014-2015 Highlights

Plasticity in Developing Brain:
Active Auditory Exposure Impacts Prelinguistic Acoustic Mapping
Researchers at the Infancy Studies Laboratory at the Center for Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience, using a series of 8-10 minute experimental sessions with babies ages four to seven months, discovered a way to help them organize the brain pathways that will help them perceive language. Click here to read more about this and other TDLC 2014-2015 Highlights