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The Center for Visual Cognition at the Department of Psychology, University of Copenhagen will host a mini ERP boot camp by Sunday June 17 – Tuesday June 19.
The lectures are given by Prof. Steve Luck from the University of California, Davis.

You can read more about the ERP boot camp at:

http://erpinfo.org/the-erp-bootcamp/mini-erp-bootcamps

Please, register for the conference at:

http://www.psy.ku.dk/Forskning/CVC/eeg_workshop/

Sincerely,
Søren Kyllingsbæk

Time: Monday the 23 of May at 3 PM

Place: CogSys kitchen, 1st fl., Build. 321, DTU

Title: Quantifying social interaction: behavioural, neural, and physiological mechanisms of interpersonal synchronization

Abstract:

Human beings have an extraordinary ability to understand and influence each other’s actions and beliefs through social interaction. We are capable of coordinating our actions, goals, and intentions with those of others’ in order to accomplish tasks that we cannot accomplish alone. This coordination requires an integration of cognitive, motor, and sensory processes both within and between individuals. Much of previous work in social cognition has studied individuals in isolation while immersed in a social context (i.e. while lying in a scanner and looking at faces). This approach has not been optimal in identifying mechanisms that enable us to engage in social interaction. However, it has frequently been employed because of technical difficulties in setting up experiments involving social interactions, as well as unexplored methods required to quantify interactions. In this talk, I present several studies, which investigate the behavioural, neural, and physiological mechanisms of real-time social interactions. The behavioural and neural mechanisms were investigated in a minimal interaction, where two people finger-tapped together in a synchronization task. EEG and MEG recordings were used to explore the underlying neural oscillations. Physiological mechanisms were explored in a real world interaction, where we looked at physiological coupling between performers and spectators in a fire-walking ritual. The results will be revealed in the talk.

The first meeting in the network will take place Tuesday May 17, 3-5 pm at IMM, DTU, building 321, room 053.
Carsten Stahlhut will talk about Functional brain imaging by EEG.

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