Neurophysiology of Social Cognition Lab

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Media coverage

Quand nos cerveaux se mettent sur la même longueur d’onde by Lise Barneoud, “Eclats de Science”, Mediapart

How Intelligence Is Measured In The Animal Kingdom by Conor Feehly. Discover Magazine

Gossip, Podcast series “Emotions”, Louie Media by Benedicte Gilles

Stalking, Podcast series “Emotions”, Louie Media by Benedicte Gilles

Connected-up-brains. Aeon

Friend or Foe? Single Neurons in the Brain Control Social Interaction, Study Finds. Singularity Hub

Wie sich soziale Interaktion im Gehirn zeigt. wissenschaft.de

How the brains of social animals synchronise and expand one another | Aeon EssaysBat friends, monkeys sharing, and humans holding hands: the brains of social animals synchronise and expand one another

Monkeys have a specialized brain network for sizing up others' actions. Scientific American

Social network in monkey brains is clue to evolution of human mind. International Business Times

Le reti cerebrali che identificano le interazioni sociali. Le Scienze

Our large brains evolved thanks to an ancient ‘arms race’ for resources and mates. The Conversation

Rezus rezusowi człowiekiem. Rzeczpospolita

The real action understanding network. Talking Brains

Quartz

New brain network identified for social interactions. NIH Research Matters

Scientists Unlock a Key Cognitive Ability of Monkeys. Nature World News

Not So Unique? A Key Feature of the Human Brain Has Just Been Found in Monkeys. Science Alert

Identifican un circuito neural que analiza las interacciones sociales. Infosalus

Newly discovered brain network offers clues to social cognition. Rockefeller University press

Monkeys Have a Specialized Brain Network for Sizing Up Others’ ActionsNeural circuitry lets macaques figure out what's going on in social interactions  

Scientific American

Multi-Modal Monkey Memory. Animalwise

Les battements du temps (15). Un orchestre caché… du 17 décembre 2011 - France Inter

France Inter

Presentations

Haozhou Jiang presents a poster at Society for Social Neuroscience S4SN 2025, Lisboa, Portugal (upcoming September 23rd -26th, 2025, register here)

Clarisse Abherve presents a poster at Society for Social Neuroscience S4SN 2025, Lisboa, Portugal (upcoming September 23rd -26th, 2025, register here)

Pauline Audurier presents a poster at Society for Social Neuroscience S4SN 2025, Lisboa, Portugal (upcoming September 23rd -26th, 2025, register here)

Julia Sliwa presents at the GDR Neural Net annual meeting, in Bordeaux, France (upcoming: November 26 to 28, 2025)

Julia Sliwa presents at the Symposium on Biology of Decision-Making 2025 in Lyon, France

Haozhou Jiang presents a poster at the 2025 NeuroPSI - Chen Institute joint conference on Brain, Behavior & Beyond on Social cognition, Decision making & Communication

Clarisse Abherve presents a poster at the 2025 NeuroPSI - Chen Institute joint conference on Brain, Behavior & Beyond on Social cognition, Decision making & Communication

Esteban Delelis presents a poster at the 2025 Paris Circuit Dynamics Conference on Hippocampal–Cortical Circuits: From structure to computation, at the Paris Brain Institute, France

Julia Sliwa gives the Feindel Lecture in 2025, at The Neuro, McGill University, Canada, invited by Justine Clery

Julia Sliwa presents in the lab of Guillaume Dumas at Centre de Recherche Azrieli du CHU Sainte-Justine at Université de Montréal, Canada

Julia Sliwa presents a Symposium at the German neuroscience meeting, NWG 2025, Goettingen, Germany, with Daniela Vallentin, Katrin Vogt, and Weiqi Chen, organized by Jan Clemens and Frederic Roemschied

Julia Sliwa gives a Lecture at PINTs - Paris Ile de France Neural Theory symposium 2024, at ENS, organized by Alex Cayco-Gajic, Joao Barbosa, Yves Boubenec, Sophie Bagur

Esteban Delelis presents a poster at PINTs - Paris Ile de France Neural Theory symposium

Lecture at the INCC Workshop on Social Cognition and Neurodevelopmental Disorders 2024 at Universite Paris Cite, organized by Laurianne Cabrera and Louise Kirsh

Arnaud Maupas presents a talk at Societe Francophone de Primatologie 2024 in Toulouse

Haozhou Jiang presents a poster at Summer school Primate Cognitive Neuroscience 2024, Bad Bevensen, Germany

Symposium at Society for Social Neuroscience S4SN 2024, Tsukuba, Japan

Esteban Delelis presents a poster at WIRED workshop 2024

Esteban Delelis presents a poster at Brain-Body Interactions Interdisciplinary conference 2024

Neural circuits of social behaviors, 2023, Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology and Otto-von-Guericke University, Magdeburg, Germany organized by Sanja Bauer Mikulovic, Kristine Krug, Constanze Lenschow

Symposium at the Mediterranean Neuroscience Society 2023, Carthage, Tunisia, organized by Giulia Salamanca and Francesco Papaleo

Symposium at COSYNE 2023, Mont-Tremblant, Canada, organized by Cory Miller and Steve Chang

Departmental Neuroscience Seminar at University of Geneva, 2022, Switzerland hosted by Sami El-Boustani

Keynote Lecture at the 2022 International Brain Bee World Championship

Outreach lecture at Forum des Sciences Cognitives 2022, Paris, France (in French)

Seminar at Washington University Institute for NeuroEngineering, 2022, Seattle, WA, hosted by Sofia Landi

Seminar at Institut des Neurosciences de la Timone, 2002, Marseille, France, hosted by the Belin Lab

Seminar at the Brain and Cognition Research Center CerCo, 2021, Toulouse, France, hosted by Benoit Cottereau

Lecture at iMind First Scientific Day on Social cognition and neuro-developmental disorders, 2021, Lyon, France

Talk at NeuroSpin – Paris Brain Institute joint 7T Workshop 2021, Paris, France

Symposium at NeuroFrance 2021, Strasbourg, France on "Psychological and neurobiological bases of primates' social behaviors" chaired by Sebastien Ballesta and Jerome Sallet, with Sylvia Wirth, and Adrien Meguerditchian

Seminar at Oxford University Department of Experimental Psychology, 2020, Oxford, UK, hosted by Kevin Marche

Seminar at the European Center for Research in Medical Imaging, 2019, Marseille, France hosted by Marie-Helene Grobras

Seminar at Institut des Sciences Cognitives - Marc Jeannerod, 2019, Lyon, France, hosted by Liuba Papeo

Minisymposium at Society for Neuroscience Meeting 2019, Chicago, IL. "Naturalistic Paradigms: Bridging fMRI and Extra-cellular Activities" organized by Sze Chai Kwok and Brian Russ, with Soo Hyun Park, Michael Ortiz-Rios and Katalin Gothard

Seminar at the European Neuroscience Institute Göttingen, 2019, Germany, hosted by Caspar Schwiedrzik

Talk at Learning & the Brain Conference on "Schooling Social Brains" 2019, New York, NY

Symposium at the International Convention of Psychological Science 2019, Paris, France. "Seeing Relations: From Multiple-Object Perception to the Representation of Social Events" organized by Liuba Papeo, with Kami Koldewyn and Daniel Kaiser

Seminar at the Center for Brains Minds and Machines Research Seminars, 2018, Harvard University, MA

Lecture at Conférence de la SFdP 2018, Paris, France

Talk at the Social and Affective Neuroscience Society Meeting 2018, Brooklyn, NY

Talk at the Center for Brains Minds and Machines Retreat, 2018, MIT, MA

Seminar at the Yerkes Center, 2018, Atlanta, GA

Seminar at Emory University Psychology Department, 2018, Atlanta, GA

"Novel Approaches and Methodologies" Lecture at Society for Social Neuroscience Meeting 2017, Washington, DC

Nanosymposium at Society for Neuroscience Meeting 2017, Washington, DC. "Representation of Faces and Bodies" chaired by Manabu Tanifuji and Kalanit Grill-Spector

Talk at Organization for Human Brain Mapping Meeting 2017, Vancouver. "Social Neuroscience" chaired by Michael Beauchamp

Seminar at Ecole Normale Supérieure, Cognitive Studies Department, 2017, Paris, hosted by Stefano Palminteri

Seminar at NeuroSpin, 2017, Saclay

Talk at Human Frontier Science Program Meeting, 2015, Salk Institute, CA

Teaching

2019 – 2025. Topic course in "Neurons: from models to consciousness", Semaine Athens, ParisTech, France

2025. Topic course at the CogMaster, Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris, France

2025. Topic course at the "Cognitive Neuroscience" Course, University of Toledo, Toledo, OH

2023. Topic course at the Neuroeconomics Summer School, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

2022. Topic course at Learning Planet Institute, France

2020. Topic course in "Cognition" class at Master Santé, Sorbonne Université, Paris, France

2020. Topic course in "Neural basis of social interactions" class at Master Neuroscience, Universite de Lyon, France

2019. Topic course at Silabe, Strasbourg, France

2017 – 2019. Topic course in "Brain, Minds and Machines" class at Hunter College, New York, NY

2013. Topic course in "Introduction to Cognitive Science" class at Yale University, MA

2008 – 2011. Teaching Associate in "Cognitive Neuroscience" class at Universite Catholique de Lyon, France

Initiative for Diversity and Inclusion in Academia and Science

Workshop "Gender Bias: Science and Practices"

April 8th, 2022, at the Paris Brain Institute & online

Organizers: Christiane Schreiweis, Eric Burguiere, Eliana Lousada, Karim N'Diaye, Tal Seidel Malkinson, Julia Sliwa, Elina Thibeau-Sutre, Emmanuelle Volle, Violetta Zujovic

Subscribe to the mailing list to know about future events: genderbiasworkshop@icm-institute.org

Speakers: Mariam CHAMMAT (French Behavioral Insights Unit, France); Rawan CHARAFEDDINE (Université de Lorraine, France); Wim DE NEYS (CNRS/Paris Descartes/Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium); Pierre DESCHAMPS (Sciences Po, France / Stockholm University, Sweden); David DOUKHAN (Institut National de l’Audiovisuel, France); Naomi ELLEMERS (Utrecht University, Netherlands); Lena MOROZOVA-FRIHA (EuropaNova, France); Albert MOUKHEIBER (Chiasma, Paris, France); Susanne QUADFLIEG (University of Bristol, UK); Gina RIPPON (Aston University, Birmingham, UK); Tal SEIDEL-MALKINSON (Paris Brain Institute, France); Kaisa SNELLMAN (INSEAD, France); Camille WILLIAMS (ENS Paris, France)

XX initiative at the Paris Brain Institute has been launched in 2019 by Violetta Zujovic and Christiane Schreiweis

Check out these other links on inclusion and diversity from the scientific community

Lists of women, Black, Latine, queer scientists for anyone needing scientific expertise

AnnesList, Women in Neuroscience, Black in Neuro, Latine Scientists, Queer in Neuro, NeuroNExxT, Request a Woman Scientist, Les Expertes

Tracking gender bias and peer-reviewed research on gender bias

BiasWatchNeuro (conferences), https://github.com/dalejn/cleanBib (citations), Gender bias calculator for recommendation letters (recommendation letters), Women in Stem Resources, 500womenscientists/Resources

How to address bias in academia?

The Self-Organized Movement to Create an Inclusive Computational Neuroscience School

Empowering (geo)scientists to transform workplace climate

How to fight sexism in science, How female scientists can confront gender bias in the workplace, How some men are challenging gender inequity in the lab, How LGBT+ scientists would like to be included and welcomed in STEM workplaces

Lab funding

Our lab received funding through a BBT4 Collaborative Grant 2024 with Pr. Justine Clery (McGill, MNI) and Pr. Roberto Toro (Pasteur Institute)

Our lab received funding from the Azrieli Centre for Autism Research for a Collaborative Pilot Grant 2024 with Pr. Justine Clery (McGill, MNI)

Our Lab received funding through an ERC Starting Grant 2021. News: Lauréats INSB de l'ERC Starting Grant 2021; 26 lauréats CNRS à l’appel ERC Starting 2021; Aż 15 Polaków z ERC Starting Grants!

Our Lab received funding through an ANR Collaborative Grant 2021 with Pr. Sebastien Ballesta, Universite de Strasbourg, and Pr. Jerome Sallet, INSERM Lyon.

Julia Sliwa receives The Peter and Patricia Gruber International Research Award in Neuroscience at the 2019 Society for Neuroscience Meeting in Chicago

Our Lab received funding through an ANR Young Researcher Grant 2019

Our Lab received funding through an IBRO Return Home Fellowship 2019

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