The Role of Attention in Percerving Social Information [Elektronische Ressource] : Behavioral and Electrophysiological Studies / Tarik Nour Eldeen Mohamed Abdelrheem. Gutachter: Stefan Schweinberger ; Boris Suchan

The Role of Attention in Perceiving Social Information: Behavioral and Electrophysiological Studies Dissertation Zur Erlangung des akademischen Grades doctor philosophiae (Dr.phil.) Vorgelegt dem Rat der Fakultät für Sozial- und Verhaltenswissenschaften der Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena Von Tarik Nour Eldeen Mohamed Abdelrheem, MA. geboren am 20.10.1980, in Sohag, Ägypten Gutachter 1. Prof. Dr. Stefan R. Schweinberger. Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Deutschland 2. Prof. Dr. Boris Suchan. Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Deutschland Tag der mündlichen Prüfung: 12. Oktober 2011. Table of Contents Preface ............................................................................................................................... iv 1 Introduction .......................1 1.1 Cognitive models of person recognition .......................................1 1.2 Neural correlates of perceiving social stimuli ..............................................................4 1.3 The role of perceptual load in perceiving social stimuli ...............9 1.4 Cognitive and neuronal mechanisms subserving face and body perception ................ 12 1.4.1 Configural processing of faces and human bodies ............................................... 12 1.4.2 The role of feature neurons in face and human body processing .......................... 15 1.