Lecture Cultural Neuroscience - prof. Shihui Han
- Start date01-11-2011
- Time11.00-12.00
- VenueG513 at the Faculty of Medicine, Van der Boechorststraat 7
- TitleWhat makes the self? Sensory, social and biological influences on neural substrates of self-reflection
- Speaker(s)Prof. Shihui Han
- Contact informationjwj.verloove@vu.nl
Prof. Shihui Han is an international expert on cultural neuroscience. In the lecture Han is going to discuss his work on social cognition and the impact of cultural differences. The neuroscientist of the Peking University has played a pioneering role with his study on feelings of empathy inside and outside the own group. His studies of empathy, ‘theory-of-mind’ and cultural influences, which are the fundamentals of neurological mechanism, are published in leading scientific journals as Social Neuroscience, Nature Neuroscience and Psychological Science
The free lecture is open for students and staff. Registration is not required.
Organized by: Dept. Educational Neuroscience
