Project description
Exploring brain evolution for processing social stimuli
Human and non-human primates greatly depend on members of their own species to survive. Therefore, they spend a lot of time watching how these members behave in order to prepare adaptive social responses. The EU-funded RELEVANCE project intends to gain insight into how the brain evolved special structures to process highly relevant social stimuli. It also aims to show how social vision sustains adaptive behaviour. To achieve this, it will explore the visual processing of bodies and interactions mechanistically and computationally, and demonstrate how this processing sustains higher abilities such as understanding intention, action and emotion. The project will shed new light on social communication deficits in neuropsychiatry and propose novel hypotheses about their genetic basis.
Field of science
- /natural sciences/computer and information sciences/software/application software/virtual reality
- /natural sciences/biological sciences/zoology/mammalogy/primatology
- /natural sciences/computer and information sciences/data science/data processing
- /natural sciences/computer and information sciences/artificial intelligence/computational intelligence
Topic(s)
Call for proposal
ERC-2019-SyG
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Funding Scheme
ERC-SyG - Synergy grantHost institution
3000 Leuven
Belgium
Beneficiaries (3)
3000 Leuven
6200 MD Maastricht
72074 Tuebingen
