ESF Research Conferences

ESF-JSPS Frontier Science Conference for Young Researchers

SOCIAL COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE

Chaired by

CHAIRS:

Professor Gün R. Semin
Utrecht University, Faculty of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Utrecht, Netherlands
www.cratylus.org

Professor Shun-Ichi Amari
RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Laboratory for Mathematical Neuroscience, Saitama, Japan
www.brain.riken.go.jp

ORGANISING COMMITTEE:

Dr Atsushi Iriki, RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Saitama, JP - Dr Ellen de Bruijn, University of Nijmegen, NL - Prof. Harold Bekkering, University of Nijmegen, NL - Prof. Tetsuro Matsuzawa, Kyoto University, Inuyama, JP - Prof. Shigeru Watanabe, Keio University, Tokyo, JP - Prof. Toshikazu Hasegawa, University of Tokyo,  JP

Dates

27 February - 4 March 2009

Location

Hotel Villa del Mare, Acquafredda di Maratea, Italy
The conference will be held at Hotel Villa del Mare in Acquafredda di Maratea. Acquafredda di Maratea is situated on the coast, on the Gulf of Policastro, between Sapri and Maratea, about 200 km (125 miles) south of Naples and about 400 km (250 miles) south of Rome. Group transportation will be organised on arrival and departure days from/to Naples airport and from/to Sapri train station.

Final Programme

The perspective that is emerging on human functioning is best captured by the confluence of different disciplinary perspectives – cognitive sciences, neurosciences, psychology, comparative social cognition and biology.

This disciplinary synergy leads to a vision of behavioral sciences that locates its thematic focus as situated in a social context, involves complex action and interaction, and is grounded by neural as well as socio-cultural processes. The different traditional disciplinary boundaries appear to be gradually fading to give rise to a broadly focused social-cognitive-neuroscience.

This emerging perspective is likely to furnish a transdisciplinary vision of human behavior in a social context. Current developments indicate that there is a paradigm in the making and that it appears to hold the promise of focusing intellectual energy and unifying scholarly activity under the umbrella of social-cognitive neuroscience, the theme of this ESF-JSPS Conference.

Abstracts, Posters & Short Oral Contributions

Participants whose abstracts have been accepted as short talks have been informed.

All other abstracts are accepted as posters.

Poster size should be no more than 100 cm high x 100 cm wide. Use letters and drawings that can be read from approximately 100 cm distance.

Group Transportation & Practical Information Guide

Detailed information on all practical aspects of the conference (access to site, registration, accommodation, travel reimbursements...) is available from the Practical Information Guide. Please read it fully and carefully...

GROUP TRANSPORTATION

Buses will be arranged on arrival day from Naples airport to Hotel Villa del Mare. Please note that due to heavy traffic and extensive road works, the bus will not stop at Naples Train Station.

Times are as follows:

Friday 27th February, Leaving Naples Airport: 13.30 and 17.00 and 19.00

!!!MEETING POINT: INFORMATION DESK IN ARRIVAL HALL!!!

The journey takes approximately 3 hours, depending on traffic.

Group transportation back to Naples airport will be arranged in a similar way for the departure day after breakfast.

All participants are kindly expected to indicate on their registration form whether they would like to take advantage of the organised transportation or not.

All major trains from Rome/Naples arriving in Sapri railway station (8 km from the Hotel) can be met by the hotel minivan. This transfer service will operate on arrival and departure days and can be reserved by phoning or emailing the hotel directly.

ACCOMMODATION

Please note that all speakers and participants will be accommodated in SINGLE rooms.

Guest fees will be payable directly to the venue.

ESF Contact

JeanKellyE-Mail

Conference Officer

Phone: +32 (0)2 533 2025
Fax: +32 (0)2 538 8486
Please quote 09-263 in any correspondence.

Partnership

This conference is organised by the European Science Foundation (ESF) in partnership with the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS).

Links of Interest

• EU-Japan Brief (a publication of the EU-Japan Centre for Industrial Cooperation)
• Cognitive Neuroscience Arena
• Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

• The European Society for Cognitive Psychology (ESCOP) is a large Society with over 500 members, across a range of European countries and beyond. ESCOP's mission is "the furtherance of scientific enquiry within the field of Cognitive Psychology and related subjects, particularly with respect to collaboration and exchange of information between researchers in different European countries". Among a variety of activities, the Society promotes new research initiatives, supports a European research base through summer school programmes through which students can learn about state-of-the-art developments, holds conferences for the presentation of research and maintains a leading academic journal as an outlet for research findings.

• The Behaviour News list provides information on conferences, meetings, jobs and scholarships in the field of behaviour biology. To subscribe, please click here

• Israel Society for Neuroscience (ISFN)
  The Israel Society for Neuroscience is a registered non-profit organization founded in 1992. Its primary goal is to promote knowledge and understanding of how the peripheral and central nervous systems operate under normal and pathological conditions, from the molecular and genetic levels and up to high cognitive functions. This includes development, sensation and perception of various stimuli, motor behavior and control, different aspects of learning and memory, sleep, neurodegenerative diseases, and psychiatric disorders.

• Société des Neurosciences (in French only)
  Créée le 4 mai 1988, la Société des Neurosciences est une association scientifique à but non lucratif. Elle regroupe aujourd'hui plus de 2500 membres. Elle a pour but de promouvoir le développement des recherches dans tous les domaines des neurosciences. Elle se compose de membres français et étrangers, répartis entre membres honoraires, bienfaiteurs, titulaires et étudiants.

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