📋 Tender Overview
Material Minds: Exploring The Interactions Between Predictive Brains, Cultural Artifacts, And Embodied Visual Search
Largest Ever Ecological Experiment On Embodied Visual Perceptionthe Eu-Funded Xscape Project Will Bring Together A Team From The Areas Of Archaeology, Vision Science And Cognitive Philosophy To Explore Whether The Worlds We Build Alter Our Own Minds And How We Process Information. The Erc-Funded Team Will Investigate Whether Our Buildings, Roads And Artefacts Change Patterns Of Thought And Attention. Slated To Conduct A Series Of 41 Global Case Studies, The Project Will Use A Set Of Materials – From Different Cultures And Old And New Settings – To Explore Materiality-Driven Cognitive Change. Xscape Will Use A New Synergistic Methodology That Combines Multiple Real-World Case Studies With The Latest Visual Neuroscience, And Simple Agent-Based Simulations.
Funded Under
Excellent Science - European Research Council (Erc)
Total Cost
€ 10 279 971,00
Eu Contribution
€ 10 279 971,00
Coordinated By
Agencia Estatal Consejo Superior De Investigaciones Cientificas
Spain