H2020Индивидуална стипендия2015–2019

EACISD · Embodied and Abstract Concepts in Sensory-motor Deprivation

„Хоризонт 2020“ — Действия „Мария Склодовска-Кюри“

Период: 2015-05-01 → 2019-04-30
Финансиране от ЕС: 263 385 €
Участници: 2
Схема: MSCA-IF

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Накратко на български

Ролята на сетивния опит при формирането на концепции се анализира чрез работа с хора, родени слепи, глухи или без ръце. Това помага да се разбере как мозъкът организира информацията и кодира абстрактни идеи независимо от сетивата.

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Резултати накратко

Embodied and Abstract Concepts in Sensory-motor Deprivation

How is information organized in the brain? Does our understanding of everyday concepts, actions and objects rely on our perceptual experience, and our ability to sense them? How would a rainbow be represented in people blind from birth? Can this uncover how abstract information is coded in our brains? And more broadly, how does sensory experience affect our brain organisation and perception? These puzzles are at core of modern cognitive and systems neuroscience and of our understanding of brain organization and function. The target of the research project was to address the role of sensory experience in concept representation and brain organization, by conducting a systematic interdisciplinary neuroimaging investigation of a combination of special populations, each deprived from birth from an entire sensory modality or ability (people born blind, deaf or without hands). The research project addressed the neural correlates of concepts’ symbolic and sensory-independent representations, as well as their linked sensory-motor features. Furthermore, the project investigated the dependence on sensory-motor experience in brain organization for various regions, from the primary auditory and sensorimotor cortices to abstract representations of hand actions of others. The project contributed to the state-of-the-art knowledge, strengthened the EU’s research collaboration network, and contributed to significant career development of the fellow.

Текст от CORDIS, на английски · Данни: CORDIS, © Европейски съюз

Цел на проекта

How is information organized in the brain? Does our understanding of everyday concepts rely on our perceptual experience, and our ability to sense them? And can this uncover how abstract information is coded in our brains?These puzzles are at core of cognitive neuroscience and brain organization. Two major theoretical bodies differ in their account of neural concept organization: Classical cognitive theories propose that concepts are symbolic and non-sensory, and are further linked to sensory-motor aspects, whereas embodied cognition theories (e.g. mirror neuron system theory) postulate that concepts are represented only in a sensory-motor manner, and representations depend on the ability to simulate, re-enact, its perceptual process or action. To address this contradictory account of concepts organization, a systematic interdisciplinary neuroimaging investigation will be conducted in a combination of special populations, each deprived from birth from an entire sensory modality or ability. The neural correlates of impossible-to-embody concepts will be studied in congenitally blind (e.g. rainbow), deaf (e.g. jazz) and ULD subjects (born without functional hands; e.g. manually handles tools). Brain responses will be analyzed using multiple, state-of-the-art neuroimaging decoding techniques to reveal brain areas representation content and dependence on sensory experience. The neural networks of such concepts will be charted, to investigate the link between abstract thought and sensory inputs. A novel non-linear measurement method to quantity the richness of representations will be developed and applied to the sensorily-deprived groups, to map the dimensions related to specific sensory modalities. At the final stage, these methods will also be applied to study the developing brain in children.The findings have the potential to revolutionize our understanding of brain organization and pave the road towards rehabilitation of multiple sensory and cognitive deficits.

Оригинален текст от CORDIS (на английски).

Участници

BEN-GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV · Beer ShevaКоординаторИзраел
PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE · CambridgeСъединени щати