Workshop: Interacting Minds: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Social Cognition
Date 19 November 2010, 8:45 – 19 November 2010, 16:20
Location
Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience
Philippstrasse 13, Haus 6, Lecture Hall
10115 Berlin
A One-Day Symposium at The Center for Integrative Life Sciences
During the last two decades many researchers in the humanities and natural sciences have begun to focus on understanding the cognitive processes involved when multiple individuals coordinate and interact with each other. This newfound focus is due to the acknowledgement that a central driving force in the evolution of the human mind has been its embedding in the social context. Many cognitive processes such as learning, attention, communication, motor
coordination, and decision-making can be considered issues of the social domain because they often involve more than one individual. With this in mind, The Center for Integrative Life Sciences (CILS) brings together speakers from both the humanities and natural sciences to address topics of social cognition at any level of complexity – from the activity of single cells and neurons to the behavior of individuals, groups and populations.
The Center for Integrative Life Sciences has recently been established at Humboldt-University Berlin to bring together researchers from different disciplines to collaborate on solving problems in social cognition, decision-making, and human interaction.
Scientific Organization
Glenn Carruthers, Stefan Gutwinski, Anna Kuhlen, Steffen Landgraf, Dar Meshi, Rosa Steimke, Bernhard Voelki
/Center for Integrative Life Sciences/
Please contact for registration.
The number of participants is limited.
For further information please visit https://sites.google.com/site/interactingminds/
Symposium Program
Friday, November 19^th
8:45 Welcome
9:00 Joint Action: What is shared? Natalie Sebanz (Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands)
9:40 Control of shared representations and understanding other people’s minds. Marcel Brass (Ghent University,
Ghent, Belgium)
/Coffee break/
10:40 Higher order cognitive processes in moral judgment.
Wayne Christensen (Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research, Austria)
11:20 Spatial issues for social cognition. Giorgia Committeri (Gabriele d’Annunzio University, Chieti-Pescara, Italy)
/Lunch break/
2:00 Collective behavior and swarm intelligence. Jens Krause (Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries, Berlin, Germany)
/Coffee break/
3:00 Can social interaction constitute social understanding? Hanne de Jaegher (University of the Basque Country, San Sebastián, Spain)
3:40 The neuroscience of social cognition: From empathy to egocentricity bias. Tania Singer (Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany)
4:20 /Symposium ends/