Re: Time to Socialize: Does the Timing of Brain Development Predict Prosocial Behavior?
Alexandra Allison de Sousa
Time to Socialize
Does the Timing of Brain Development Predict Prosocial Behavior?Organized by: Paola Cerrito and Judith Burkart
Venue: Collegium Helveticum⇒ This is a public event. Participation is free of charge and registration is not required.
This workshop seeks to investigate neurobiological and life-history traits that may explain the high levels of sociality in some primates, especially in humans and marmosets. It brings together clinical and comparative approaches to better understand the role of neurodevelopmental timing and the presence of alloparental care in the evolution of human social cognition and in the development of disorders such as autism spectrum disorder (ASD). The topic will be addressed by adopting both an ontogenetic and phylogenetic approach by an interdisciplinary group of international speakers including neuroscientists, evolutionary biologists, psychiatrists, and psychologists.
Lecture
Tuesday, November 7
Campus Irchel, Room Y42-K-8817:00
Brain Structure within Maturation and the Evolution of Sociality
Barbara Finlay (Cornell University)
Workshop
Wednesday, November 89:00
Opening and welcome remarks
Sebastian Bonhoeffer
Paola Cerrito
Judith Burkart
9:30
András Jakab
University Children’s Hospital Zurich
10:00
Angela Roberts and Stephen Sawiak
University of Cambridge
10:30
Christine Charvet
Auburn University
11:00
Coffee break
12:30
Round table
12:45
Lunch break
14:00
Marie Schaer
University of Geneva
14:30
Nora Raschle
University of Zurich
15:00
Giancarlo Natalucci and Tilman Reinelt
University Hospital Zurich
15:30
Round table
16:30
Closing remarks