每周论坛之七（总第136期）：George Christopoulos（南洋理工大学）&Kim Shapiro（伯明翰），2017年4月10日下午

每周论坛之七（总第136期）

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报告人：George Christopoulos 助理教授

报告人单位：新加坡南洋理工大学

题目：Social decision making: from neuroscience to culture and mega-cities

时间：2017年4月10日 （周一，13:30-14:30）

地点：太阳集团官网东校园太阳成集团tyc151cc（南学院楼C座）305

报告简介：

Decision-making, a central and complex function of the human brain, determines our social life. My research program systematically examines decision making using a multi-level approach - ranging from human neuroscience, behavioural economics and lab experiments to social psychology, the built environment and culture science. I will present (i) evidence describing human brain signals that are sensitive to basic decision making parameters (money and risk); (ii) additional neuroimaging studies explaining how competition and cooperation are represented in the human brain and (iii) more recent work examining how culture can act as a maternal attachment figure and how it affects decision making. I will finish with theoretical and empirical approaches explaining how the built environment, especially in mega-cities like Guangzhou, could affect –positively and negatively- mental health and performance.

报告人简介：

I am a Decision Neuroscientist (University of Cambridge; postdoc at Cambridge, Baylor College of Medicine and Virginia Tech) with extensive research experience in neurobehavioral accounts of human behavior. In a series of studies, we identified the neural correlates underlying risk attitudes (PNAS, 2009; Journal of Neuroscience, 2009, 2010). Recent studies have explored the social aspects of human behaviour, such as cooperation, trust and social influence, employing novel neuro-computational approaches (Nature Neuroscience, 2015, Neuroimage 2015).

Part of my current research examines the, rather unexplored, effects of Culture on human decision making. Recent research in my lab demonstrates how Culture could act both positively - by inducing maternal feelings of security- as well as negatively -by inducing feelings of disgust as a response to foreign cultures.

A new research stream in my lab explores the effects of the development of Mega-Cities and urbanicity on human behaviour, mental health and performance. We explore how architectural parameters such as lighting, windowless spaces, sounds and the concept of horizon interact with the human brain and body. Our aim is to develop standards for liveable cities.

Methodologically, we employ a rich, multi-disciplinary approach combining different methods including (i) lab-based methods (behavioral game theory) (ii) cognitive neuroscience (fMRI, eye-tracking and electrodermal responses) (iii) computational approaches and (iv) field studies with real-world applications.

My lab has received well over $1.1M in external funding from both governmental and private institutions. This research has been showcased in various media, including the French TV and Channel News Asia; finally, I have been occasionally consulting major companies in Singapore and overseas.

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报告人：Kim Shapiro 教授

报告人单位： 英国伯明翰大学

题目：The attentional blink:  Now you see it; now you don’t

时间：2017年4月10日 （周一，14:30-15:30）

地点：太阳集团官网东校园太阳成集团tyc151cc（南学院楼C座）305

报告简介：

Professor Shapiro in collaboration with other colleagues published the first paper on the ‘attentional blink’ phenomenon, which has attracted great interest on the part of many scientists. The original publication has been cited over 1000 times and approximately 500 reports on the same topic have followed from it. He employs a wide range of neuroscience approaches and tools in his research, including functional imaging (fMRI), electroencephalography (EEG) and event-related potentials (ERPs), and magnetoencephalography (MEG). Professor Shapiro is the Head of School in Psychology.

报告人简介：

   Professor Shapiro received his PhD in animal learning from Dalhousie University (Canada) before taking up his first (assistant professor) post at the Pennsylvania State University. He then moved to the University of Calgary (Canada) where he was tenured and promoted to Full Professor. Prior to moving to the University of Birmingham, he was employed by Bangor University where he helped to establish the functional imaging centre in the School of Psychology. Professor Shapiro has received recent funding for his research from the BBSRC, the ESRC, the Human Frontiers of Science Programme, and the Welcome Trust.

Professor Shapiro is a member of the Society for Neurosciences, the Psychonomics Society, and the Vision Sciences Society, as well as a member of the grant panel (A) for the Biological and Biosciences Research Council (BBSRC). He has served in the past as Associate Editor for Perception and Psychophysics and is currently an Associate Editor for Frontiers in Cognition. He is also currently a member of the Consulting Board for the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance.