Neuroimaging analysis suite

识别人脸的身份和情感表达的能力在我们的日常生活中至关重要。因此，我们是这种能力的专家并不奇怪，而且大脑中的特定区域似乎专门用于面部处理。虽然很明显，大脑中的某些结构与面部处理有关，但在科学文献中，关于所涉及的大脑区域的确切作用存在相当大的争论。我的研究项目检查了大脑中被认为在面部处理中发挥作用的各种结构的功能作用，以及大脑的哪一侧（如果有的话）起着主导作用。这项研究计划使用行为和神经成像（fMRI）技术来调查这些结构所使用的潜在表征。我将使用功能磁共振成像适应来测量面部处理区域对视觉属性的选择性。本提案中的专用设备对于开发、获取、分析和可视化功能性磁共振成像（fMRI）实验数据至关重要。我的研究计划在面部处理将回答基本问题的作用，具体的大脑结构的面部处理。这项研究计划的发现将对临床评估和治疗因大脑这些区域受损而导致的神经功能缺损产生影响。我需要的设备是一个功能强大的功能磁共振成像分析工具，它将允许计算要求高的分析和尖端的大脑功能激活可视化，并在磁场环境中获取受试者的反应。这些研究工具是功能磁共振成像领域的领导者，被世界各地的数百个实验室使用。

The ability to recognize the identity and emotional expression of a human face is of critical importance in our daily lives. It is therefore not surprising that we are such experts at this ability and further, that specific regions within the brain appear to be devoted to face processing. Although it is clear that certain structures in the brain are related to face processing, there has been considerable debate in the scientific literature, about the precise roles of the brain regions that are involved. My research program examines the functional roles of the various structures in the brain that are thought to play a role in face processing and indeed which side (if any) of the brain plays a dominant role. This research program uses both behavioural and neuroimaging (fMRI) techniques to investigate the underlying representations used by these structures. I will use fMRI adaptation to measure the selectivity of face processing regions for visual attributes. This specialized equipment in this proposal is essential to develop, acquire, analyze and visualize data from functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) experiments in my lab. My research program on face processing will answer fundamental questions about the roles of specific brain structures for face processing. The findings from this research program will have implications for the clinical evaluation and treatment of neurological deficits that result from damage to these areas of the brain. The equipment that I require is a powerful fMRI analysis tool that will allow for computationally demanding analyses and cutting-edge visualization of functional activation in the brain and for acquisition of subject responses in the magnetic environment. These research tools are a leader in the field of fMRI and is used by hundreds of labs around the world.