May 6, 2005

social neuroscience

Speakers:
Prof Peter Halligan, Professor of Neuropsychology and Director of the Cardiff University Brain and Repair Imaging Centre (CUBRIC), Cardiff University
Prof Kevin Ochsner, Assistant Professor of Psychology, Columbia University
Prof Neil Macrae, Professor of social Cognition, University of Aberdeen

Neuroscientists, experts in researching how the brain operates, and social scientists, who examine our everyday behaviour, explain why they are joining forces to answer the big questions of what and why we think and behave as we do in a new approach known as ‘social neuroscience’.