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BBSRC Quota Studentship: Neural encoding of face and object recognition memory

Reference	BBS/E/B/0000L952
Principal Investigator / Supervisor	Professor Keith Kendrick
Co-Investigators / Co-Supervisors
Institution	Babraham Institute
Department	Babraham Institute Department
Funding type	Research
Value (£)	21,473
Status	Completed
Type	Institute Project
Start date	01/04/2003
End date	01/07/2006
Duration	39 months

Abstract

The ability to recognise faces is one of the most important social tools we have at our disposal and we have specialised systems within the brain for performing this function. Face recognition can become impaired by damage to these systems (prosopagnosia) and also in neuropsychiatric (schizophrenia) and developmental (autism) disorders. Little work to date has systematically investigated the specific importance of different components of the face-processing network for different aspects of recognition and memory or the neurotransmitter systems and neural encoding strategies involved. The main questions this research will address are therefore: (1) which brain regions (inferior temporal cortex, entorhinal cortex, perirhinal cortex and medial prefrontal cortex) are of critical importance to the establishment and maintenance of face recognition memory, (2) which neurotransmitter systems are involved and (3) how neural ensembles encoding faces are influenced by learning.

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Committee	Closed Committee - Animal Sciences (AS)
Research Topics	X – not assigned to a current Research Topic
Research Priority	X – Research Priority information not available
Research Initiative	X - not in an Initiative
Funding Scheme	X – not Funded via a specific Funding Scheme

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