Face Encoding by Neural Networks in Inferotemporal Cortex |
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| Air date: | Monday, April 13, 2009, 12:00:00 PM |
| Category: | Neuroscience |
| Description: | Prof. Keith Kendrick studies how different brain systems are organised to control a variety of social and emotional behaviours. His research is focused on using a variety of animal models to investigate how the brain processes olfactory and visual cues to effect individual recognition. It also addresses how identity information is linked to that used for communicating and interpreting different emotional states. In one branch of his research, Prof. Kendrick has systematically investigated visual communication in sheep. In the 1980’s he discovered that neurons in the temporal cortex of sheep exhibit face-selective responses that closely resemble those in the primate brain. These electrophysiological observations fit well with behavioural data from his laboratory showing that sheep readily perceive the identity and emotional expression of conspecifics' faces from photographs. These and other findings from his lab demonstrate that sheep use faces extensively for their social communication, raising questions about the evolution of mammalian face perception, including that of humans.
NIH Neuroscience Seminar Series |
| Author: | Keith Kendrick, PH.D., Department of Cognitive and Behavorial Neuroscience, The Babraham Institute; University of Cambridge |
| Runtime: | 75 minutes |
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| CIT File ID: | 15029 |
| CIT Live ID: | 7144 |
| Permanent link: | http://videocast.nih.gov/launch.asp?15029 |
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