This course will provide students with a thorough background in the newly emergent field of social cognitive neuroscience. A broad range of social phenomena will be examined at multiple levels (1) the social level including experience and behaviors (2) the cognitive level which deals with information processing systems and (3) the neural level which deals with brain/neuronal bases of the first two levels.
A wide variety of social psychological phenomenon which have been examined using neuroscience techniques will be discussed. Topics will include emotion control, animal and human communication, social decision making, and disturbed social functioning in psychiatric disorders. These topics will be discussed at both general and specific (article) levels. Guest speakers at the forefront of specific research topics in social neurocognition will contribute to the course.
This course is for CNS students only. Non-CNS students can contact Ellen Janssen (e.janssen@donders.ru.nl) or Arno Koning ( a.koning@donders.ru.nl).