Events

5/2 - 11:00AM
6N11, Kadoorie Biological Sciences Building, Pok Fu Lam Road, HK

Sociality havslong been regarded as a major driver of brain and cognitive evolution. Dr. Rui Oliveira of the Gulbenkian Institute for Molecular Medicine studies both cause and effect of sociality in zebrafish and fruit flies. In this seminar, Dr. Oliveira will introduce the neuroendocrinology and genomics of social behaviour, the evolution and mechanisms underlying behavioural plasticity, and comparative social cognition.

11/2 - 9:00-10:00AM

Zoom ID: 990 2549 7025, Passcode: 661 404

Human social cognition has traditionally been investigated through two distinct lenses: one emphasising higher-order mentalising and social inference, and another focusing on embodied interaction and behavioural synchrony, developing two parallel, disparate formal framework. Professor Guillaume Dumas of Université de Montréal proposes a unifying framework, extends traditional physiological principles to encompass social functions with findings from hyperscanning, and presents its implication for computation psychiatry.