Interacting Minds: An interdisciplinary approach to social cognition
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-Universität zu 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, DarMeshi, Rosa Steimke, Bernhard Voelkl
Center for Integrative Life Sciences
Please contact emergentminds@googlemail.com for registration.
The number of participants is limited.
For further information, please visithttps://sites.google.com/site/interactingminds/
Symposium Program
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
14:00 Collective behavior and swarm intelligence Jens Krause (Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries, Berlin)
Coffee break
15:00 Can social interaction constitute social understanding? Hanne de Jaegher (University of the Basque Country, San Sebastián, Spain)
15:40 The neuroscience of social cognition: From empathy to egocentricity bias Tania Singer (Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig)
16:20 Symposium ends
