MATERIAL PERCEPTION

Visual Perception of Surface Material Properties - Computational and fMRI investigations of spatio-temporal cues to perceived shininess

Coordinatore	Bilkent Üniversitesi    more  Organization address address: ESKISEHIR YOLU 8 KM city: ANKARA postcode: TR-06800 contact info Titolo: Dr. Nome: Abdullah Cognome: Atalar Email: send email Telefono: -4795 Fax: -4649
Nazionalità Coordinatore	Turkey [TR]
Totale costo	100˙000 €
EC contributo	100˙000 €
Programma	FP7-PEOPLE Specific programme "People" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013)
Code Call	FP7-PEOPLE-IRG-2008
Funding Scheme	MC-IRG
Anno di inizio	2009
Periodo (anno-mese-giorno)	2009-04-01   -   2013-03-31

 Partecipanti

#	participant	country	role	EC contrib. [€]
1	Nome Ente NON disponibile  Organization address address: ESKISEHIR YOLU 8 KM city: ANKARA postcode: TR-06800 contact info Titolo: Dr. Nome: Abdullah Cognome: Atalar Email: send email Telefono: -4795 Fax: -4649	TR (ANKARA)	coordinator	100˙000.00

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 Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)

'Material qualities are an important aspect of the human visual experience, yet the neural processes by which surface material perception is mediated are still largely unstudied. This investigation focuses on one surface quality, whose underlying physical properties can be varied parametrically, namely apparent shininess. While previous studies have exclusively focused on stationary visual cues to shininess the present project departs drastically from those approaches by proposing a novel, ecologically valid direction of research that investigates spatio-temporal cues to surface shininess.

The proposed work will combine computational methods, psychophysical experimentation and functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) to achieve the following objectives: 1: Determine the spatio-temporal statistical regularities in the visual environment conveying that a surface is shiny. 2: Identify and study human cortical areas involved in the processing and integration of visual dynamic cues to shininess, with an emphasis on understanding how low-level processes are integrated to give rise to the final material percept.

This project is multidisciplinary in nature. Expected results of all, the computational analyses, behavioral and fMRI studies, promise to have a large impact on the fields of Cognitive Neuroscience, Computer Vision and Machine Intelligence.

The study of the neural processes underlying visual function constitutes a part of Cognitive Neuroscience in whose domain the here proposed project falls. Research in this area, with its direct applications to human health and well being at the community level, is of highest relevance to the European Research Area. Being novel in scope and execution, the proposed research will make a significant contribution to European scientific excellence.'