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Distinguished Lecture Series: Peter Bearman, Columbia University

Weekly Seminar
Event time: 
Wednesday, October 15, 2014 - 12:00pm to 1:30pm
Location: 
YINS See map
17 Hillhouse Avenue
New Haven, CT 06511
Event description: 
“The brain basis of person perception in real-world social networks”

Peter Bearman of Columbia University

Humans are a fundamentally social species, and the social networks in which we are each embedded constitute significant determinants of our physical and psychological well-being. Navigating interactions within these social networks requires efficient computational mechanisms for processing social information about network members as well as our and others’ relations to them. The talk describes some early findings in a larger study investigating the neural signatures underlying these social-cognitive processes critical for person perception and action in diverse real-world social networks.