Beyond Images: An Emerging Paradigm Shift in the Study of Human Behaviour and Brain Function
Jacqueline C. Snow
University of Nevada

Ultimately, we aim to generalize and translate scientific knowledge to the real world, yet current knowledge of the human brain and cognition is based almost exclusively on studies of impoverished visual stimuli that have no relevance for real-world behaviour. In this talk I will present research from my lab, including evidence from behavioural, neuropsychological, fMRI, and EEG studies in humans, showing that real-world solid objects elicit differences in cognition and neural coding compared to 2-D and 3-D image displays. Throughout the talk I will describe a range of innovative techniques and apparatus we use for ‘bringing the real world into cognitive neuroscience’.