REGISTRATION is ESSENTIAL for the following WORKSHOP on 5th April. In order to register, please e-mail Rosalyn Lawrence. The Workshop is FREE OF CHARGE.

WORKSHOP: EVOLUTION AND DEVELOPMENT OF SOCIAL COGNITION

9:15 – 10:00 Coffee and Registration

10:00 Introduction by Workshop Hosts: Dr Brad Duchaine and Dr Sarah-Jayne Blakemore, UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience

10:10 Professor Brian Hare, Dept of Biological Anthropology and Anatomy, Duke University, USA
“How much of our cooperative behaviour is human?”

10:40 Professor Richard Byrne, School of Psychology, University of St Andrews
“What evolutionary changes of cognitive architecture best model the differences between monkeys, apes and people?”

11.10 Professor Gergely Csibra, Centre for Brain and Cognitive Development, Birkbeck College, London University
“Natural pedagogy: human infants are prepared to learn from teachers”

11:40 Dr Olivier Pascalis, School of Psychology, University of Sheffield
“On The Development of Face Processing”

12:10 Discussion

12:45 Lunch

14:00 Dr Ian Apperly, School of Psychology, University of Birmingham
“What if humans had two systems for theory of mind?”

14:30 Dr Sarah-Jayne Blakemore, UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience
“The social brain in adolescence”

15.00 Tea

15.30 Dr Essi Viding, Dept of Psychology, University College London
“Developmental roots of antisocial cognition?”

16:00 General Discussion
Discussant: Professor Brian Hare

16:30 Close

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Free:

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