QBI Seminar: Understanding face perception with fast periodic visual stimulation
Event Details
- Date:
- Wednesday, 01 April 2015 - Wednesday, 01 April 2015
- Time:
- 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
- Room:
- QBI Level 7 Auditorium
- UQ Location:
- Queensland Brain Institute (St Lucia)
- URL:
- http://www.qbi.uq.edu.au/neuroscience-seminars
- Event category(s):
Event Contact
- Name:
- Ms Deirdre Wilson
- Phone:
- 66300
- Email:
- d.wilson5@uq.edu.au
- Org. Unit:
- Queensland Brain Institute
Event Description
- Full Description:
- A/Professor Bruno Rossion
Institute of Research in Psychology (IPSY),University of Louvain, Belgium
Title: Understanding face perception with fast periodic visual stimulation
Abstract:
When the human brain is stimulated at a rapid periodic frequency rate, it synchronizes its activity exactly to this frequency, leading to periodic responses recorded by the electroencephalogram (EEG). In vision, periodic stimulation has been used essentially to investigate low-level processes and attention, and has been recently extended to understand high-level visual processes, in particular face perception (Rossion & Boremanse, 2011). In this presentation, I will summarize a series of studies carried out over the last few years that illustrate the strengths of this approach: the objective (i.e., exactly at the experimentally-defined frequency rate) definition of neural activity related to face perception, the very high signal-to-noise ratio, the independence from explicit behavioral responses, and the identification of perceptual integration markers. Overall, fast periodic visual stimulation is a highly valuable approach to understand the sensitivity to visual features of complex visual stimuli and their integration, in particular for individual faces, and in populations presenting a lower sensitivity of their brain responses and/or the need for rapid and objective assessment without behavioral explicit responses (e.g., infants and children, clinical populations, animals).
Directions to UQ
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- Directions:
- St Lucia Campus | Gatton campus.
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