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Embodied Social Cognition with Virtual Agents in Cognitive Neuroscience| title | Embodied Social Cognition with Virtual Agents in Cognitive Neuroscience |
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| start_date | 2024/02/26 |
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| schedule | 15h15 |
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| online | no |
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| location_info | Room B10 |
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| summary | Investigating interpersonal phenomena, such as empathy, attribution of intentions, and facial expression recognition, is crucial to our understanding of functional social interaction. However, following 19th-century scientific reductionism, these components of social cognition have been studied in cognitive neuroscience as separate constructs. Iwill start this talk by presenting an ERP study for investigating intentionality in patients with schizophrenia to illustratethis reductionist approach. However, more recently, it has been proposed that these components should be studied usingholistic stimuli and interactive experimental settings. Therefore, I will argue that what makes social cognition embodied is the interdependence between the mirror neuron system, mentalization network, and facial expression recognition primarily. By providing several examples, I will argue that affective and reactive virtual agents are the tailor-made stimuli for studying social cognition in cognitive neuroscience. Recent evidence shows that social cognition components are the best predictors of functional outcomes in psychiatry. Thus, I will explore the potential of virtual avatars as powerful tools in mental health research, demonstrating their application in enhancing our understanding and remediations of cognitive and social dysfunctions. |
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| responsibles | Allen |
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| submitted | published | | 2024/02/22 10:26 UTC |
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