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SYMPOSIUM SPEAKERS
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Decety,
Jean,
PhD, Professor, Social Cognitive Neuroscience; Department of
Psychology, University of Chicago |
Field:
Social Neuroscience; Dr. Decety's groundbreaking research is mapping
out the capacities of the human brain's mirror neuron system and
it's relevance for processes of identification with others.
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Peter
Hobson,
MD, PhD, Tavistock Professor of Developmental Psychopathology,
University College, London |
Field:
Developmental Psychopathology/Adult Psychiatry; Dr Hobson has made
highly original theoretical as well as empirical contributions in
integrating perspectives from typical early development and autism,
especially concerning the formative influence of affectively- configured
interpersonal relatedness, and has pursued related themes in studies
of infants of mothers with severe personality disorder.
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Sarah
Hrdy,
PhD,
Professor Emerita,
University of California-Davis |
Field:
Evolutionary Anthropology; Dr. Hrdy has been using ethnographic
data across human cultures; comparative information from other species
that evolved as "cooperative breeders" (with shared care
of offspring); along with the paleontological evidence to reconstruct
the evolutionary context in which infants developed among ancestral
hominids. Her models are relevant to understanding the kind of social
challenges that led to the evolution of a line of apes peculiarly
equipped to monitor and read the mental states of others.
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Karlen
Lyons-Ruth,
PhD, Director, Center for Bio-behavioral Family Studies, Cambridge
Health Alliance; Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry,
Harvard Medical School |
Field:
Developmental Psychology; Dr. Lyons-Ruth's work has expanded our
understanding of disorganized forms of attachment strategies in
human infancy, detailing the limits of the normal human infant's
capacity to adapt to variations in parental engagement and exploring
the deviations in capacity to share with others that emerge from
such early inadequacies in parent-child relatedness.
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Saturday, Oct. 14, 2006
8:30 AM - 5:00 PM
Science Center
Lecture Hall C
Harvard University
1 Oxford Street
Cambridge, MA
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