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Foresight Cognitive Systems Project Social Cognition

Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience University College London. Foresight Cognitive Systems Project Social Cognition. Uta Frith and Sarah-Jayne Blakemore. Interdisciplinary interest. Social psychology. Developmental psychology. Comparative psychology. Social Cognition. Cognitive

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Foresight Cognitive Systems Project Social Cognition

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  1. Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience University College London Foresight Cognitive Systems ProjectSocial Cognition Uta Frith and Sarah-Jayne Blakemore

  2. Interdisciplinary interest Social psychology Developmental psychology Comparative psychology Social Cognition Cognitive neuroscience Computer science and artificial intelligence

  3. Social Cognition: a new domain of Cognitive Neuroscience • Social Cognition: Any cognitive process that involves other people • Focus on computational and neural mechanisms • >3 Social Cognition special issues in Neuroscience journals in the past year

  4. Mechanisms of Social Cognition

  5. Recognising faces • Recognising emotional expressions

  6. Detecting eye gaze

  7. Perceiving biological motion

  8. Imitation

  9. Theory of Mind

  10. Complex Emotions and processes: • Deception • Trustworthiness • Embarrassment • Empathy • Morality

  11. When social communication fails • Antisocial behaviour • Conduct disorder • Autism • Schizophrenia • Psychopathy

  12. Current and future interests • Life span development: childhood, adolescence, adulthood, old age • Genetics • Social IQ • Prejudice • Imitating role models • Fanaticism • Moral responsibility, free will

  13. Social Robots? • Is human social interaction special? • Artificial agent communication, learning and teaching • Facial and emotion recognition in machines • Cars that respond to emotion • Electronic aids for social interaction • Robot companions, toys

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