Joshua M. Susskind

MA Psychology
Current PhD Student

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Department of Psychology
University of Toronto
Affect and Cognition Laboratory
Machine Learning @ Toronto
Email: josh(at)aclab(dot)ca
Site: http://aclab.ca/people/josh
Curriculum Vitae [pdf]

I am a graduate student at UofT since 2004 co-advised by Adam Anderson (Psychology) and Geoffrey Hinton (Computer Science). I also dream about playing the guitar and surfing.

Expression of emotion

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My interests are machine learning and neural network approaches to understanding how facial expressions are recognized, how emotions are represented neurally, and how the brain forms internal probabilistic models of the world.

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  • Chapman, H.A., Kim, D.A., Susskind, J.M. & Anderson, A.K. (2009). In Bad Taste: Evidence for the Oral Origins for Moral Disgust. Science 323(5918), p.1222-1226.
  • Susskind, J.M., Lee, D.H., Cusi, A., Feiman, R., Grabski, W., and Anderson, A.K. (2008). Expressing fear enhances sensory acquisition. Nature Neuroscience 11, 843-850 (doi:10.1038/nn.2138).
  • Susskind, J.M., and Anderson, A.K. (2008). Facial expression form and function. Communicative and Integrative Biology 1(2).
  • Susskind, J.M., Hinton, G.E., Movellan, J.R., and Anderson, A.K. (2008). Generating Facial Expressions with Deep Belief Nets. in J. Or (ed.) Affective Computing, Focus on Emotion Expression, Synthesis and Recognition. I-TECH Education and Publishing. ISBN 978-3-902613-23-3.
  • Ellamil, M., Susskind, J.M., and Anderson, A.K. (2008). Examinations of identity invariance in facial expression adaptation. Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Neuroscience 8(3), p.273-281.
  • Aviezer, H., Ran, H., Ryan, J., Grady, C., Susskind, J.M., Anderson, A.K., and Moscovitch, M. (2008). Angry, Disgusted or Afraid? Studies on the Malleability of Facial Expression Perception. Psychological Science 19(1), p.724-732.
  • Susskind, J.M., Littlewort, G., Bartlett, M.S., Movellan, J.R., and Anderson, A.K. (2007). Human and computer recognition of facial expressions of emotion. Neuropsychologia 45(1), p. 152-162.