COPEST

Construction of perceptual space-time

 Coordinatore UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI TRENTO 

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 Nazionalità Coordinatore Italy [IT]
 Totale costo 1˙002˙102 €
 EC contributo 1˙002˙102 €
 Programma FP7-IDEAS-ERC
Specific programme: "Ideas" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013)
 Code Call ERC-2012-StG_20111124
 Funding Scheme ERC-SG
 Anno di inizio 2013
 Periodo (anno-mese-giorno) 2013-01-01   -   2017-12-31

 Partecipanti

# participant  country  role  EC contrib. [€] 
1    UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI TRENTO

 Organization address address: VIA CALEPINA 14
city: TRENTO
postcode: 38122

contact info
Titolo: Dr.
Nome: David Paul
Cognome: Melcher
Email: send email
Telefono: +39 0464 808665
Fax: +39 0464 808617

IT (TRENTO) hostInstitution 1˙002˙102.00
2    UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI TRENTO

 Organization address address: VIA CALEPINA 14
city: TRENTO
postcode: 38122

contact info
Titolo: Dr.
Nome: Vanessa
Cognome: Ravagni
Email: send email
Telefono: +39 0461 281238
Fax: 390461000000

IT (TRENTO) hostInstitution 1˙002˙102.00

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unified    continuous    perception    mechanisms    spatial    limited    receptor    detectors    subjective    give    underlying    temporal    space    illusion    sensory    responses    uncover    time    input   

 Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)

'The foundation of lived experience is that it occurs in a particular space and time. Objects, events and actions happen in the present moment in a unified space which surrounds our body. As noted by Immanuel Kant, space and time are a priori concepts that organize our thoughts and experiences. Yet basic laboratory experiments reveal the cracks in this illusion of a unified perceptual space-time. Our subjective experience is a construction created out of the responses of numerous sensory detectors which give only limited information. In terms of space, the sensory input from a multitude of tiny windows is organized based on the coordinates of the receptor system, such as the fingertip or a specific location on the retina. In terms of time, sensory input is summed over a limited period which varies widely across different receptor types. Critically, none of these sensory detectors has a spatial-temporal response that corresponds to our subjective experience. Nonetheless, the mind constructs an illusion of unified space and continuous time out of the variegated responses. The goal of this project is to uncover the mechanisms underlying smooth and continuous perception. This project builds on a decade of groundwork in studying specific instances of the integration of visual information over space and time with a new focus on the mechanisms that unite the various phenomena which have up to now been studied separately. A combination of behavioral, neuroimaging and computational approaches will be used to identify the mechanisms underlying spatio-temporal continuity in high-level perception. We will track the dynamic shifts between the various temporal and spatial coordinate frames used to encode information in the brain, a topic which has remained largely unexplored. This research project, driven by specific hypotheses, aims to uncover how uni-sensory, ego-centric sensory responses give rise to the rich, multisensory experience of unified space-time.'

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