SOCIAL_PREDICT

Predictive coding in social perception: a social neuroscientific approach to study the dynamic social brain

 Coordinatore UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX 

 Organization address address: Sussex House
city: FALMER, BRIGHTON
postcode: BN1 9RH

contact info
Titolo: Ms.
Nome: Sarah
Cognome: Mcdonald
Email: send email
Telefono: +44 1273 872581

 Nazionalità Coordinatore United Kingdom [UK]
 Totale costo 231˙283 €
 EC contributo 231˙283 €
 Programma FP7-PEOPLE
Specific programme "People" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013)
 Code Call FP7-PEOPLE-2012-IEF
 Funding Scheme MC-IEF
 Anno di inizio 2013
 Periodo (anno-mese-giorno) 2013-08-01   -   2015-09-11

 Partecipanti

# participant  country  role  EC contrib. [€] 
1    UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX

 Organization address address: Sussex House
city: FALMER, BRIGHTON
postcode: BN1 9RH

contact info
Titolo: Ms.
Nome: Sarah
Cognome: Mcdonald
Email: send email
Telefono: +44 1273 872581

UK (FALMER, BRIGHTON) coordinator 231˙283.20

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dynamic    activation    incoming    stereotypes    basic    experiments    brain    integration    racial    supports    predictions    alter    directly    explore    eeg    perception    social    perceptual    oscillatory    people    visual    primes    stereotype    influence   

 Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)

'It is well known that racial stereotypes can influence the way people evaluate and treat people from other racial groups. Recent findings suggest that social knowledge can also directly influence very basic perceptual processes. These findings are in line with computational models that see the brain as a ‘prediction machine’: based on knowledge about the world, the brain attempts to match incoming perceptual information to top-down predictions and expectations. Here, I explore whether stereotype-based social predictions directly alter basic visual perception, and how the brain supports this integration of high-level social predictions with low-level perceptual processes. I propose a series of experiments that use binocular rivalry (in which different pictures are presented to the left and the right eye, which results in only one picture entering consciousness) to test whether stereotype-evoking primes (such as a middle eastern face) can alter how and when socially relevant objects (such as weapons) enter awareness. To explore how the brain supports the dynamic integration of stereotypes with ongoing perceptual processes, I will measure the electrical activity of the brain (the electro-encephalogram or EEG). To chart integration of top-down and bottom-up information across brain wide networks, I will study synchronization over EEG frequency bands associated with these two streams of information. I will employ a novel method of analysing neural data, Granger causality, to test whether oscillatory activation evoked by social primes has a direct causal relation with oscillatory activation related to altered visual awareness. Together, these experiments will elucidate whether basic perception is indeed shaped by social knowledge embedded in stereotypes, and how the brain supports the dynamic integration of existing social knowledge with incoming perceptual information.'

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