Dynamical Neuroscience XX Collective Cognition: The Neurophysiology of Social Neuroscience

Thursday and Friday October 11-12, 2012 Harrah’s Hotel 228 Poydras Street New Orleans, LA 70130 Confirmed 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 Stephanie A. White Keynote Address Recipient of the 5th Annual

Swartz Prize for Theoretical & Computational Neuroscience

Meeting Organizers J.A. Scott Kelso Janine M. Simmons Dennis L. Glanzman

Twentieth Annual Dynamical Neuroscience Satellite Symposium

Collective Cognition: The Neurophysiology of Social Neuroscience

Poster submission deadline: August 31, 2012 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 realtime, 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.

For logistical information please contact Nakia Wilson, The Dixon Group, Inc., (202)-281-2825, [email protected] For programmatic information, please contact Dennis Glanzman, NIMH/NIH, (301) 443-1576, [email protected] There is no fee to attend this meeting. Register and submit a poster at this website: http://neuro.dgimeetings.com