Dear Koglist Members:
This is just a gentle reminder that abstract submission and registration is currently open for the 2022 North American Meeting of the International Society for Ecological Psychology (ISEP) that will be held
at the University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg, MS on June 23-25, 2022. We welcome submissions for symposia, open talks and posters.
The conference website is https://www.isepna2022.com/
The website has information on abstract submission, registration, travel & accommodations, and planned social events.
We hope to see you there. The plan is to hold an in-person meeting.
Abstract submission deadline: April 1, 2022
Registration deadline: May 2, 2022
For more information feel free to contact me any time at alen.hajnal(a)usm.edu
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Alen Hajnal, PhD.
Associate Professor
<https://www.usm.edu/brain-and-behavior>Coordinator of Brain and Behavior PhD Program<https://www.usm.edu/graduate-programs/psychology-brain-behavior.php>
Perception Action Cognition Lab<https://sites.google.com/view/paclab>
School of Psychology
University of Southern Mississippi
Dear all,
The CEU Department of Cognitive Science cordially invites you to its talk by:
Giorgia Silani "Understanding social motivation: a neuro-pharmacological and clinical account"<https://events.ceu.edu/2022-03-02/understanding-social-motivation-neuro-pha…>
Date: Wednesday, March 2, 2022 – 16:00-17:30 (CET)
Host: Natalie Sebanz
Location: D-001 Tiered room, Ground Floor - QS Vienna Campus
Anyone wishing to attend the talk in person in Vienna must register in advance<https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=E1nE2VN24kuSC72wOGOBhHl…>
(please click and fill out the form)
Anyone in Budapest, or planning to attend the event remotely, please find Zoom link below:
Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82326182487?pwd=R1NKT3gwb0xYc1RmQnVUMFdSbmVPQT09
Meeting ID: 823 2618 2487
Passcode: v57UAP
ABSTRACT:
Human behavior is motivated not only by primary rewards (such as food), but also by social rewards (such as approval). In the last decade, a fundamental challenge has been to understand the different aspects involved in reward. While animal research has clearly established "wanting" and "liking" as two components differing on the neurobiological and neurochemical level, corresponding research in humans is less conclusive. The present talk addresses this gap of knowledge by testing: a) whether "wanting" and "liking" can be dissociated in humans on the behavioral and neurochemical level for non-social and social rewards; and b) whether such components are differently impaired in clinical conditions such as autism spectrum disorders (ASD). By employing a novel behavioral paradigm in combination with pharmacological manipulations (i.e. dopamine and opioid antagonists; experiment 1 and 2), we first aimed at differentially targeting these two components. In experiment 3, the same paradigm combined with fMRI was used to investigate reward processing in individuals with ASD compared to neurotypical controls. Participants were tested in a real effort task, to determine their explicit (ratings of wanting and liking and squeezing of hand dynamometer) and implicit (hedonic facial reactions) responses to different types of rewards. Nonsocial rewards were small amounts of milk with different concentrations of cacao. Social rewards were gentle caresses delivered to the forearm at different speeds by a same-sex experimenter. The findings are discussed in light of the current theory of reward processing and social motivation in particular.
We are looking forward seeing you there!
Cognitive Science Events at CEU: https://tinyurl.com/ycka353d
Best regards,
Fanni
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