[Comp-neuro] Call for Posters - 20th Annual Dynamical Neuroscience Meeting

20th Annual Dynamical Neuroscience Satellite Symposium

 

Collective Cognition:  The Neurophysiology of Social Neuroscience

 

Preceding the 42nd Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience

 

Thursday and Friday, October 11-12, 2012

 

Harrah’s Hotel, 228 Poydras Street, New Orleans, LA 70130

 

The study of social behavior presents unique challenges to the neuroscientist because it requires us to move beyond the study of individual brains.  Traditional behavioral and systems neuroscience focuses on an individual, manipulates stimuli affecting that individual, and measures the neurobiological outcome of those manipulations at the individual level.  Physiological correlates of individual behavior can be obtained in real-time, using single unit recording, EEG/ERP’s, fMRI BOLD, or PET.  Dynamical neuroscientists have been examining temporal sequencing and correlated activity within a single brain for decades.

 

Social neuroscience has recently begun to investigate the complex biological bases of human social cognitive and behavioral abilities, but the majority of studies have focused on studying brains in isolation using paradigms that examine social interactions from afar.  Consequently, the two-way neural correlates and physiological underpinnings of real-time social interaction have remained elusive.  This symposium will provide a platform for discussion of the challenges involved in understanding interacting brains and a window into the future of social neuroscience and its potential enhancement via computational and dynamical systems modeling.

 

Invited Speakers

 

Fabio Babiloni, Guillaume Dumas, Asif A. Ghazanfar, Naotaka Fujii,

Christian Keysers, P. Read Montague, Michael A. Riley, Allan L. Reiss,

Leonhard Schilbach, Linda B. Smith, Emmanuelle Tognoli and Stephanie A. White

 

Keynote Address

 

Recipient of the 5th  Annual Swartz Prize for  Theoretical & Computational Neuroscience

 

Symposium Organizers

 

J.A. Scott Kelso, Janine M. Simmons and Dennis L. Glanzman

 

Poster Receipt Deadline:  August 31, 2011

 

 

For logistical information please contact Nakia Wilson, The Dixon Group, Inc., (202)-281-2825, nwilson@dixongroup.com

 

For programmatic information, please contact Dennis Glanzman, NIMH/NIH, (301) 443-1576, glanzman@nih.gov

 

There is no fee to attend this meeting.  Register and submit a poster at this website:  http://neuro.dgimeetings.com