Simons Foundation Lectures
Neuroscience and Autism Science: The Social Brain
The 2024 lecture series in neuroscience and autism science is “The Social Brain.” Social interactions dominate our world and experiences. Human society itself results from large-scale social behavior. Such behaviors are also ubiquitous in other animals, from cooperation in nonhuman primates to the courtship rituals of flies. In these lectures, scientists will discuss how these social behaviors likely arise through neurobiological mechanisms shared across species.
Past Lectures
Themes and Variations in Social Brain Circuits
Vanessa Ruta, Ph.D.Principal Investigator, Laboratory of Neurophysiology and Behavior, Rockefeller University
Gabrielle H. Reem and Herbert J. Kayden Professor Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Vanessa Ruta, Ph.D.Principal Investigator, Laboratory of Neurophysiology and Behavior, Rockefeller UniversityGabrielle H. Reem and Herbert J. Kayden Professor Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
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Face to Face: The Special Ways of Our Social Minds and Brains
Winrich Freiwald, Ph.D.Assistant Professor, Rockefeller University
Winrich Freiwald, Ph.D.Assistant Professor, Rockefeller University - Lecture
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Genomic Pillars of the Social Brain
Gene E. Robinson, Ph.D.Director of the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
and Swanlund Chair of Entomology , University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Gene E. Robinson, Ph.D.Director of the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biologyand Swanlund Chair of Entomology , University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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