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Freiwald’s lab aims to understand the inner workings of this system. They are particularly interested in how face selectivity emerges in a single cell; how information is transformed from one face area to another; what contribution each face area makes to different abilities, such as the recognition of a friend or a smile; and how the face areas interact.
The lab uses the face-processing network to uncover the basic organization of the brain itself, revealing how populations of neurons extract and integrate information, how information propagates through neural networks, and why visual information processing is organized in hierarchies. Furthermore, by studying how the face-processing system is functionally embedded in the brain, the Freiwald lab explores its links to social behavior, such as how a smile can elicit an emotional response and cause someone to smile back, and how a face can activate old memories. Understanding the circuits that implement these complex functions may aid in understanding conditions characterized by atypical social or emotional responses, such as autism.
The Freiwald lab also studies how the brain exerts attentional control, how attention interacts dynamically with the environment, and how attention and object representations interact. Vision is an active process, aided by attention, and it selects what is relevant and dismisses what is not. Freiwald uses fMRI to determine the entire network of brain areas involved in attention, its connections, and functional properties. The group has also identified a new brain area for attention control. Faces, due to their high social importance, give rise to specific attentional deployments, and the lab aims to utilize this link to better elucidate general attention mechanisms.
The lab uses the face-processing network to uncover the basic organization of the brain itself, revealing how populations of neurons extract and integrate information, how information propagates through neural networks, and why visual information processing is organized in hierarchies. Furthermore, by studying how the face-processing system is functionally embedded in the brain, the Freiwald lab explores its links to social behavior, such as how a smile can elicit an emotional response and cause someone to smile back, and how a face can activate old memories. Understanding the circuits that implement these complex functions may aid in understanding conditions characterized by atypical social or emotional responses, such as autism.
The Freiwald lab also studies how the brain exerts attentional control, how attention interacts dynamically with the environment, and how attention and object representations interact. Vision is an active process, aided by attention, and it selects what is relevant and dismisses what is not. Freiwald uses fMRI to determine the entire network of brain areas involved in attention, its connections, and functional properties. The group has also identified a new brain area for attention control. Faces, due to their high social importance, give rise to specific attentional deployments, and the lab aims to utilize this link to better elucidate general attention mechanisms.
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Nature Methodspp.1-1, (2024)
biorxiv(2024)
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NATURE METHODSno. 5 (2024): 1-5
Reference Module in Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Psychology (2024)
Nature methodsno. 6 (2024): 1131-1131
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