Speakers

Dr. Lucia Melloni received her PhD in Psychology from the Catholic University in Santiago, Chile and the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, Frankfurt, Germany. She is currently a group leader at the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics in Frankfurt am Main, Germany and a research professor in the neurology department at New York University Langone Health. Her lab is broadly interested in understanding the neural underpinnings of how we see (perception), how and why we experience what we see (consciousness), and how those experiences get imprinted in our brain (learning and memory) - as well as the interplay between these processes. She uses multiple methods to address these questions, ranging from electrophysiological and neuroimaging methods to behavioral techniques and online surveys.

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My research areas of interest are social neuroscience and psychiatry. More specifically, I am interested in how human beings understand and make sense of each other. Here, my research is based on the assumption that social cognition is fundamentally different when we are engaged with others, in real-time social interaction with them (‘online‘ social cognition), rather than merely observing them (‘offline‘ social cognition; e.g. Schilbach et al. 2006, 2011, 2013; Schilbach 2015). In particular, I am interested in exploring the ways in which social interaction and interpersonal coordination can be motivating and rewarding and how this interacts with other aspects of cognition and processes of self-regulation (Schilbach et al. 2010, 2013).

Adopting this second-person approach to other minds (Schilbach 2010; Schilbach et al. 2013) and exploring it empirically by using functional neuroimaging and interactive eyetracking (Wilms, Schilbach et al. 2010; Pfeiffer et al. 2011; Pfeiffer, Vogeley & Schilbach 2013) holds promise to allow new insights into the neurobiological correlates of real-time social interaction (Pfeiffer et al. 2013; Schilbach 2014) which may also be relevant for our understanding of psychiatric (and other) disorders and related therapeutic options (Schilbach et al. 2013; Timmermans & Schilbach 2014).

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Ivana S. Marková is Professor of Psychiatry at Hull York Medical School, University of Hull and Honorary Consultant in Psychiatry at the Department of Psychological Medicine with the Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust. She trained in medicine at the University of Glasgow and then in psychiatry at Cambridge. In Cambridge, she also completed her masters in the history and philosophy of science and obtained her higher doctorate in medicine with a thesis on the structure of the concept of insight. She continues to research on the nature of insight in psychiatry as well as on different aspects of descriptive psychopathology and neuropsychiatry. Her other main research focus is on the epistemology of psychiatry and mental symptoms. Her clinical work is in liaison psychiatry with a special interest in neuropsychiatry and Huntington’s disease.

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