Studying the spatio-temporal dynamics of face processing

尽管人脸识别看起来毫不费力，几乎是瞬间完成的，但它所需要的步骤却是极其复杂的。目前的研究将以详细的方式研究我们的大脑如何处理面部，这是大脑感知面部所依赖的关键信息，以及大脑如何处理模糊的面部信息，例如文艺复兴时期意大利画家G. arimboldo的著名画作。在这个研究项目中，我们建议追踪大脑中面部表征“建立”过程背后的时空神经事件的足迹。

Although recognizing faces is seemingly effortless and nearly instantaneous, the steps that it requires are extremely complex. The current research will examine in a detailed manner how our brain processes faces, which is the critical information that the brain relies on to perceive a face, and how the brain deals with ambigous facial information, such as the well-know paintings by G. Arcimboldo, the Italian painter from the Rennaissance. We propose in this research program to track down the footsteps of the spatio-temporal neural events underlying the "building up" process of a face representation in the brain.