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Invited speakers The social brain |
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Invited speakers The social brain |
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| 10th Nordic Meeting in Neuropsychology, Aalborg, Denmark, 15-18 August 2010 |
| Sunday - 2 opening lectures: Neil Macrae and Sarah-Jayne Blakemore |
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C. Neil Macrae Aberdeen
The social brain: The face and person perception |
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Sarah-Jayne Blakemore London
The social brain in adolescence
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 Charlie, here already at study of the brain, is Sarah's son |
| Monday started with two lectures on autism |
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Uta Frith London & Aarhus
Autism: Theory of Mind revisited |
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The Sally-Ann task is one of the classical Theory of Mind tasks
originated by Uta Frith and her colleagues 25 years ago
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Francesca Happé London
Autism: Central coherence revisited
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Martin Brüne Bochum, Department of Psychiatry
Social cognition in schizophrenia
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Paul Burgess London
Executive functions of the frontal lobe |
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Essi Viding London
Development of the psychopathic brain
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Essi Viding used twins to show that callous-unemotional traits are heritable, and that antisocial behavior associated with such traits is much more strongly influenced by genetics than is antisocial behavior without this association
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Essi Viding and Uta Frith
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| Essi Viding, herself a Finn, was introduced by Taina Nybo, Helsinki |
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Simone Shamay-Tsoory Haifa, Israel
The neural basis of competitive emotions
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Technical problems quickly fixed by Knut Dalen
The competitive emotions |
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Michael Trimble London
Music, belief and the social brain
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According to tradition, the last invited lecturer before the conference galla dinner may provide a link between the conference theme and its wider cultural and societal importance. Michael Trimble did just this.
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Conference dinner in Rold Forest
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Kristine B. Walhovd Oslo
Neuroimaging of the developing brain
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Opiate exposure in utero may preferentially lead to white matter changes in 'social brain'
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Question by William Baaré, Copenhagen
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Morten Kringelbach Oxford & Aarhus
Finding pleasure in the brain
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| Christopher Kipps Southampton
Impairment in social cognition is the core of frontotemporal dementia
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Torkel Klingberg Stockholm
Training of working memory |
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Shuihui Han Beijing
Self representation in the human brain - the influence of cultural and sensory experiences
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The self tends to be represented in eastern cultures more in terms of society and family than is the case in western cultures - and seems to have a different representation in the medial prefrontal cortex
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Shihui Han & Andreas Roepstorff, Aarhus |
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Chris Frith London & Aarhus
The social brain: Summing up and looking ahead
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| Photographs: Anders Gade, Department of Psychology, Copenhagen University |
