Computational Mechanisms underlying human facial emotion recognition
Understanding facial expressions is something all living beings do. It helps us figure out how others feel and how to best respond to social cues around us. We know that many chemicals regulate emotion recognition in our brains, but we do not know exactly how. In this study, our goal is to use eye movement data to build a model that helps us understand how evidence accumulates in the brain when recognising emotions. This will help us get a clearer picture of how different brain chemicals collectively play a role in this process.
Ethics approval reference R93678/RE001
We are looking for
Healthy volunteers who are 18-65 years old, fluent in English, do not take any psychoactive medication, do not smoke >5 cigarettes per day, and are not diagnosed with a neurological or psychiatric condition
Expenses
Participants will be reimbursed for their time and local/reasonable travel expenses