GRAD Alumni Research Award 2017 Recipient: Matteo Visconti, PBS
Faces convey an astounding quantity of information that facilitates social interactions. Through faces, we can distinguish and recognize identities, accurately detect social cues that signal emotion and direction of attention, and we can make categorical judgments of gender, age, and ethnicity. The multiple streams of information we gather from faces are essential to navigate our complex social lives. How our brain represents this information is the focus of my Ph.D. research in Dr. M.
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