ANATOMICAL BASIS OF FACE PROCESSING AND EMOTION

这个项目的主要目的是继续我们的研究。 关于人脸处理的神经基础。我们计划进一步探索 面孔识别缺陷患者识别能力的研究 识别面部表情。我们的目标是揭开 解释了这一点，这反过来可能会揭示正常的 人脸识别的机制。我们还将调查是否 面孔不可知者可以正常地产生面部表情。在第二行 我们试图验证这一观点，即异常高度的 面部视觉上的“模棱两可”(由局部和局部的相似性定义 全局形状和整体配置)在很大程度上解释了 面孔作为一类刺激的地位。另一组研究将探索 面孔不可知论者识别面孔以外的实体的能力 还需要在独特的层面上进行识别，例如独特的景观和 建筑物。我们将继续探索无意识的面子现象 面孔不可知症患者的再认能力。这些研究的意义 本项目下概述的内容直接与 记忆和语言。特别是，这些研究将有助于我们的 对学习和学习的神经机制的理解 人类在系统层面上的识别能力。在这个项目中，重点是 将在学习和识别过程中负责 在分类的最下级消除实体的歧义，即， 个人模范级别。脸是典型的 这样的刺激，因此它们值得特别调查。这些研究 在潜在的整合和扩张中也很重要 关于大脑学习和识别能力的知识 潜意识一种无意识的、隐蔽的水平除了这些知识的价值之外 为了进一步了解学习和学习的神经基础 记忆，这样的信息将为发展行为提供基础 针对视力障碍患者的需求量身定做的管理计划 认知障碍。

The principal objective of this project is the continuation of our research on the neural basis of face processing. We plan to explore further the ability of patients with defective recognition of face identity to recognize facial expressions. we aim at uncovering the factors that account for this, and which, in turn, might shed light on the normal mechanisms for the recognition of faces. We will also investigate whether face agnostics can generate facial expressions normally. In a second line of studies, we attempt to validate the idea that the unusually high degree of visual "ambiguity" in faces (as defined by similarities in local and global shapes and overall configuration) largely explains the "special" status of faces as a class of stimuli. Another set of studies will explore the ability of face agnostics to recognize entities other than faces that also require identification at a unique level, e.g., unique landscapes and buildings. We will continue to explore the phenomenon of nonconscious face recognition in face agnostic patients. The significance of the studies outlined under this project ties directly into the objectives specified for Memory and Language. In particular, the studies will contribute to our understanding of the neural mechanisms that subserve learning and recognition in humans, at systems level. In this project, the emphasis will be on learning and recognition processes that are responsible for disambiguating entities at the most subordinate level of taxonomy, i.e., the individual exemplar level. Faces are the quintessential instance of such stimuli and as such they warrant special investigation. These studies are also important in the potential consolidation and expansion of knowledge regarding the ability of the brain to learn and to recognize at a nonconscious, covert level. In addition to the value of such knowledge to further understanding of the neural underpinnings of learning and memory, such information will provide a basis for developing behavioral management programs tailored to the needs of patients with visual recognition disorders.