New Directions in Social Cognition Research

Keynote speakers:

DANIEL J. POVINELLI (Biology, University of Louisiana at Lafayette).

JOSEF PERNER (Centre for Neurocognitive Research, University of Salzburg)

Description

Social Cognition is an expanding field of study that has come to include researchers from Philosophy, Psychology, Neuroscience, and Robotics. Social Cognition is focused on describing and explaining how human, non-human, and artificial systems understand sociality. Theoretical debates in philosophy consider issues of origins and ontology, in psychology, qualitative and quantitative methods are used to establish developmental, cross-cultural, and comparative patterns in different sorts of social performances, while neuroscience considers any neurologically relevant contribution to such abilities. Finally, roboticists have begun to explore how to create social agents capable of robust forms of human interaction. This interdisciplinary conference will explore some of the new ideas in the study of social cognition.

Mandatory Registration: Attendance is free for all graduate students, post-docs, independent researchers and faculty, but registration is required. Click here to register for the conference.

Host departments: Philosophy, Psychology, Neuroscience, Bilkent University

Contact Email: socialcognition[at]bilkent[dot]edu[dot]tr 

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