24 Jan
2012
24 Jan
'12
9:39 a.m.
The next talk in the CDC Seminar series will be given by:
Kai Vogeley, University of Cologne
Date: Wednesday, January 25, 2012, 5 PM
Location: Cognitive Development Center at CEU, Hattyú u. 14, 3rd floor
PLEASE NOTE: Our seminar room has a limited capacity. Please arrive
early to ensure you get a seat! The talk will begin promptly at 5.
Social Cognition and Autism
Abstract: Social cognition as the capacity to process socially
relevant information is an essential component of the human cognitive
equipment that allows us to communicate and interact with others and
to adapt to complex affordances created by our social environment;
seemingly effortlessly we are able to generate impressions and make
inferences about the inner experience of others in everyday life.
However, the enormous variations of social behaviour and diversity in
human communication often enough challenge our capacity to understand
others and can lead to misunderstandings in social encounters.
Research activities from many different fields have identified a
variety of factors (age, gender, culture, norm deviance, language
modalities) as influential sources of variance in social information
processing. In this presentation, I will talk about psychological
processes and neural mechanisms (employing functional magnetic
resonance imaging) that underly nonverbal communication focusing on
gaze perception, impression formation and true interaction with a
special focus on the variance related to the psychopathology of
high-functioning autism. These studies are crucial to our basic
understanding of human communication and interaction and their
disturbances.
Cognitive Science events at CEU: http://cognitivescience.ceu.hu/events
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