PINS

The neural representations of person identity information: fMRI and neuropsychological investigations

 Coordinatore UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON 

 Organization address address: GOWER STREET
city: LONDON
postcode: WC1E 6BT

contact info
Titolo: Ms.
Nome: Kamila
Cognome: Kolasinska
Email: send email
Telefono: 442078000000
Fax: 442078000000

 Nazionalità Coordinatore United Kingdom [UK]
 Totale costo 282˙109 €
 EC contributo 282˙109 €
 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-2013-IOF
 Funding Scheme MC-IOF
 Anno di inizio 2014
 Periodo (anno-mese-giorno) 2014-07-01   -   2017-06-30

 Partecipanti

# participant  country  role  EC contrib. [€] 
1    UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON

 Organization address address: GOWER STREET
city: LONDON
postcode: WC1E 6BT

contact info
Titolo: Ms.
Nome: Kamila
Cognome: Kolasinska
Email: send email
Telefono: 442078000000
Fax: 442078000000

UK (LONDON) coordinator 282˙109.20

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modality    faces    famous    organization    content    representational    mrus    rsa    brain    examine    modalities    names    person    reveal    recognition    representations    identity    pins    fmri    developmental    plan    voices    regions    individuals    neural   

 Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)

'Person recognition is critical for appropriate social interactions, however we currently know very little about its neural basis. One possibility is that person knowledge is distributed in a network of modality-specific neural systems. Alternatively, Bruce & Young (1986) suggested a cognitive hierarchical model in which information from modality-specific recognition units (MRUs) is relayed to person identity nodes (PINs) containing or giving access to unified, amodal person representations. This project aims to advance our understanding of the neural mechanisms underlying person identity recognition. Specifically, using fMRI approaches with typical participants and individuals with selective developmental deficits, I plan to accomplish three objectives: (1) identify the neural regions that represent person identity information irrespective of input modality. Multivariate pattern analysis of neural activations to faces, voices and names of famous individuals will be performed to reveal areas that are sensitive to person identity per se; (2) reveal the content of identity representations in modality-specific and modality-independent regions. Using fMRI I will examine brain responses to famous, personally-familiar, and newly-learned individuals, from faces, voices and names. Within and across regions of interest and modalities, patterns of brain activation to different experimental conditions will be compared using representational similarity analysis (RSA) to reveal organization principles and representational content; (3) examine the development of PINs when MRUs are compromised. I plan to conduct a systematic behavioral investigation on identity recognition from various modalities in developmental prosopagnosics, individuals who have severe difficulties recognizing faces. Furthermore, using fMRI and RSA, I will examine the neural organization of PINs and MRUs in these individuals and potential differences to the brain organization of healthy participants.'

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