ABOUT THE COURSE: The course is aimed at familiarizing the students/audience with the neural bases of social behavior in humans. We will cover in detail various aspects of human social behavior and social knowledge, for e.g. knowledge about self and others,perceiving faces, and understanding and interpreting social interactions etc. and understand how the brain achieves these sophisticated processes.INTENDED AUDIENCE: Masters and PhD Students of Psychology, Cognitive Science and Neurosciences.
Social Behavior and the Brain: An Introduction to Social Neuroscience
Overview
Syllabus
Week 1:Self and Other Representations in the Human Brain.Week 2:Neural Basis of Personal Knowledge, Evaluating Faces on Social Dimensions.Week 3:Social Category Information, Intergroup -RelationsWeek 4:Perceiving out-groups and Neural Bases of Race and Stereotyping.Week 5:Self-regulation and Evaluative Processing, Emotional Decision MakingWeek 6:Emotions and Social Behavior, Processing of Specific Emotions and Affect.Week 7:Theory of Mind and Social Intelligence.Week 8:Social Pain, Social Brain in Interactive Games.
Taught by
Prof. Ark Verma
