UCL Centre for Developmental Centre for Brain & Cognitive

Cognitive Neuroscience Development, Birkbeck

AUTUMN WORKSHOP:THE EMERGING SOCIAL BRAIN

Thursday 6th October 2011, 12.15pm – 5pm(buffet pm, 1pm start)

Kennedy Lecture Theatre, UCL Institute of Child Health, Guilford Street

1.00pm Welcome: Dr. Michelle de Haan
Reader in Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, UCL Institute of Child Health
Chair Dr. Michelle de Haan
1.10pm / Professor Lynne Murray
Professor in Developmental Psychopathology, University of Reading
‘Mother-infant relationships in the context of postnatal depression: different kinds of interaction difficulty mediate different outcomes’ /
1.45pm / Professor Pasco Fearon
Director of the Developmental Neuroscience Unit, Anna Freud Centre, London
‘Gene-environment correlation in the first 3 years: mechanisms of risk in the development of depression’ /
2.20pm / Professor Derek Moore
Director of the Institute for Research on Child Development, U.of East London
‘Assessing the impact of socio-economic status, from infants' brains to social gains: Initial findings from the ELAS and TALBY studies’ /
2.55pm / Tea/Coffee Break
Chair / Dr. Victoria Southgate
Wellcome Trust Research Career Development Fellow, Centre for Brain and Cognitive Development, Birkbeck, U of London
3.30pm / Professor Mark Johnson
Director of the Centre for Brain and Cognitive Development, Birkbeck, University of London
‘The emerging atypical social brain: Studies of infants at-risk for autism’ /
4:05pm / Professor GergelyCsibra
Professor & Head of Department, Department of Cognitive Sciences, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary and Professor of Psychology, Centre for Brain and Cognitive Development, Birkbeck, University of London.
‘Human infants' expectation for referential communication’ /
4.40pm / Closing Remarks: Dr. Victoria Southgate

WORKSHOP BACKGROUND For many years researchers have known that the earliest social interactions have a profound effect on the development of children. More recently, modern neuroscience techniques have allowed them to directly study how genes and experience shape the way infants’ brains perceive, think about and grow with the social world around them. This has enabled better understanding of the normal emergence of the social brain and has opened new approaches for identifying emerging social-emotional problems in infants and toddlers. The UCL-CDCN and CBCD at Birkbeck University of London have joined to invite leading researchers to present the latest developments in the field.

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