Workshop

Social Cognition: Origins, Mechanisms and Disorders

University of Surrey, Guildford, UK, 28th-29th August 2014

This workshop is funded by the ESRC and the University of Surrey Institute of Advanced Studies.

The aim of this workshop is to encourage an interdisciplinary approach to social cognition. We hope to promote conversations between comparative psychologists, developmental psychologists, social neuroscientists, and psychologists working in clinical and applied domains, with the aim to give attendees a chance to reflect on how their work relates to other academic and applied disciplines. There are three themes to the workshop: “origins”, “mechanisms”, and “disorders”, drawing discussants from a range of disciplines including anthropology, comparative psychology, developmental psychology, clinical psychology and social neuroscience.

Keynote speakers:

Professor Marcel Brass, Professor of Psychology, Department of Experimental Psychology, Ghent University

Professor Josep Call, Director of the Wolfgang Köhler Primate Research Center, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, and Professor in Evolutionary Origins of Mind, School of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of St Andrews

Professor Cecilia Heyes, Senior Research Fellow in Theoretical Life Sciences, All Souls College, University of Oxford

Professor Sue Leekam, Chair in Autism at Cardiff University and Director of the Wales Autism Research Centre

Poster presentations and registration:

Registration is now closed as the workshop is fully booked. The final programme is now available at the workshop website.

Getting here:

The University of Surrey is based in Guildford, in the South East of England. It is easily accessible by road and rail (35 minutes from London Waterloo by train), and is a short distance from both Heathrow and Gatwick airports. For walking directions from Guildford rail station, see this map.

We look forward to seeing you in Guildford in August 2014.