Social Cognition, Engagement, and the Second-Person-Perspective

Interdisciplinary Conference
May 25-27, 2012
University of Cologne (Germany)

What are the psychological processes and neural mechanisms enabling social
cognition? How might social cognition be modulated depending on whether one is
actively engaged in social interaction with someone or merely observing others
interact? What is the impact of this distinction for research methodologies in
social psychology and social neuroscience as well as for our understanding of
conditions like autism? In particular, this conference brings together experts
from various fields to promote the prospects of a second-person approach for
future research into the foundations of social cognition.

Speakers and Discussants:

  • Cristina Becchio (Torino)
  • Alan Costall (Portsmouth)
  • Chris Frith (London)
  • Uta Frith (London)
  • Thomas Fuchs (Heidelberg)
  • Shaun Gallagher (Memphis)
  • Tobias Grossmann (Leipzig)
  • Riita Hari (Helsinki)
  • Günther Knoblich (Budapest)
  • Agnes Kovacs (Budapest)
  • Joel Krueger (Kopenhagen)
  • Cade McCall (Leipzig)
  • Victoria McGeer (Princeton)
  • Albert Newen (Bochum)
  • Vasudevi Reddy (Portsmouth)
  • Erik Rietveld (Amsterdam)
  • Norihiro Sadato (Tokyo)
  • Leonhard Schilbach (Cologne)
  • Tobias Schlicht (Bochum)
  • Natalie Sebanz (Nijmegen)
  • Corrado Sinigaglia (Milan)
  • Nikolaus Steinbeis (Leipzig)
  • Bert Timmermans (Cologne)
  • Kai Vogeley (Cologne)
  • Wako Yoshida (London)

Call for Posters

We invite submissions of high quality posters from any discipline on topics related to the main theme of the conference. Posters should be directly submitted in pdf format or by way of an abstract of approx. 500 words. Contact details – authors’ names, postal address, affiliation and e-mail address – should be given separately. Please submit your posters by email to ?Nike Zohm nike.zohm@rub.de before March 1st, 2012!

Organization

Prof. Dr. Tobias Schlicht (Ruhr-Universität Bochum), Dr. Leonhard Schilbach (Uniklinik Köln), Dr. Nikolaus Steinbeis (MPI for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig), Dr. Bert Timmermans (Uniklinik Köln)

Further Information: http://www.rub.de/philosophy/2ppconference

This conference is part of the research project “Being addressed as You” (http://www.rub.de/philosophy/socialcognition), funded by the Volkswagen Foundation within their funding initiative “European Platform” (http://www.volkswagenstiftung.de/foerderung/herausforderungen/european-platform-for-life-sciences-mind-sciences-and-the-humanities/bewilligungen-2010.html).