The Social Cognitive Neuroscience Dr. David Turk Lecture 1: Course Overview

3. What�s in a Face? When we see a human face we detect a number of characteristics that enable us to determine something about that person. We can detect what sex they are, their relative age, their emotional state, their racial group and where they are directing their eyes and whether or not we know them. For highly familiar people we can also recall biographical information about that person (e.g. their job, their political beliefs, the place we met them last, how we �feel� about them). These different types of information (or lack thereof) will have a profound effect on how we interact with that individual, and are subserved by distinct neural mechanisms. We will address issues relating to the neural substrates of face processing in the course of these lectures.When we see a human face we detect a number of characteristics that enable us to determine something about that person. We can detect what sex they are, their relative age, their emotional state, their racial group and where they are directing their eyes and whether or not we know them. For highly familiar people we can also recall biographical information about that person (e.g. their job, their political beliefs, the place we met them last, how we �feel� about them). These different types of information (or lack thereof) will have a profound effect on how we interact with that individual, and are subserved by distinct neural mechanisms. We will address issues relating to the neural substrates of face processing in the course of these lectures.

5. Neuropsychological Disorders of Face Processing

10. MRI vs. fMRI

12. BOLD signal

13. Design Jargon: Runs

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