Francesco d’Errico

Assigning a social status from face adornments: an fMRI study

This study uses fMRI to investigate brain networks involved in attributing social status from face adornments, identifying key regions and their interactions.

Neural correlates of perceiving and interpreting engraved prehistoric patterns as human production: effect of archaeological expertise.

The paper examines brain activity during perception of prehistoric engravings versus natural patterns, finding differences in expert and non-expert participants.

Neuroimaging supports the representational nature of the earliest human engravings

The paper uses fMRI to show that early human engravings activate brain regions similar to those for objects and written words, suggesting they had a representational purpose.