503 research outputs found
Teacher and Author Terry Frith
No full textTerry Bryant Frith, a former Manatee County teacher, works in her office. Frith, a lifelong Bradenton resident, wrote a book called "Secrets Parents Should Know About Public Schools" which was published by Simon and Schuster
The Social Brain
No full textThe Mind Group – initiated and coordinated by Thomas Metzinger – is a group of young philosophers and scientists with a strong interest in questions concerning the mind, consciousness and cognition. The aim of the group is to build an international network of mentors and excellent junior researchers in order to integrate different approaches and to foster the development of advanced theories of the mind, which incorporate most recent empirical findings as well as sophisticated conceptual work. Thus, one major purpose of the group is to help bridge the gap between sciences and humanities. The group’s meetings take place at least twice a year with public lectures by well-known cognitive scientists. Pierre Jacob is President of the European Society for Philosophy and Psychology and the Head of Institut Jean Nicod. Chris Frith is Emeritus Professor of Cognitive Neuropsychology, University College London and Niels Bohr Visiting Professor, Aarhus University. Uta Frith is Emeritus Professor of Cognitive Development, University College London and Aarhus University Research Foundation Professor After the public lectures of ‘Levels of Embodiment’ on 20 and 21 November 2009, MIND 11 is the second collaboration between the MIND Group and the ICI Berlin. This time, however, the entire workshop will take place at the ICI Berlin with talks by Pierre Jacob, Chris Frith and Uta Frith who will focus on different aspects of social cognition. Before the evening lecture on 21 May, the Barbara-Wengeler-Preis for outstanding interdisciplinary research in philosophy and the neurosciences will be presented to Saskia Nagel for her PhD thesis entitled Ethics and the Neurosciences – The Ethical and Social Implications of Monitoring and Manipulating the Brain
Frith, Uta: transcript of a video interview (27- and 28-Nov-2007)
No full textUta Frith is a world expert in autism spectrum disorders. She was one of the first in the 1960’s to assess the alterations in brain function that underlie autism, at a time when the general view was that autism was an emotional disorder with a psychological basis. Frith believed that a specific neural fault was responsible for the abnormal mental development, and by psychological testing she probed the cognitive deficits of autism. In the 1980’s she co-developed a theory that suggested that autistic individuals lacked a “theory of mind”. This refers to the mind’s ability to think about itself and about the minds of other people, which is essential for engaging in complex social activity. Most recently she has applied brain imaging techniques to study the brain mechanisms that underlie 'theory of mind'.Supported by a Wellcome Trust Public Engagement grant (2006-2008) in the History of Medicine to Professor Tilli Tansey (QMUL) and Professor Leslie Iversen (Oxford), this project recorded interviews with 12 prominent neuroscientists, between 2006 and 2008
Movement and Mind: A Functional Imaging Study of Perception and Interpretation of Complex Intentional Movement Patterns
No full textWe report a functional neuroimaging study with positron emission tomography (PET) in which six healthy adult volunteers were scanned while watching silent computer-presented animations. The characters in the animations were simple geometrical shapes whose movement patterns selectively evoked mental state attribution or simple action description. Results showed increased activation in association with mental state attribution in four main regions: medial prefrontal cortex, temporoparietal junction (superior temporal sulcus), basal temporal regions (fusiform gyrus and temporal poles adjacent to the amygdala), and extrastriate cortex (occipital gyrus). Previous imaging studies have implicated these regions in self-monitoring, in the perception of biological motion, and in the attribution of mental states using verbal stimuli or visual depictions of the human form. We suggest that these regions form a network for processing information about intentions, and speculate that the ability to make inferences about other people's mental states evolved from the ability to make inferences about other creatures' actions
Les neurosciences cognitives appliquées au social
No full textPr Uta Frith © P. Imbert, Collège de France Similitudes et différences entre les espèces sociales On dit que les êtres humains sont des créatures profondément sociales, mais on ignore souvent que beaucoup d’autres animaux sont eux aussi extrêmement bien adaptés aux apprentissages et aux interactions sociales. Les études comparatives récentes sur la cognition sociale chez différentes espèces montrent qu’apprendre d’un congénère est un phénomène très répandu. Je présente des exemples montrant q..
Video, Prof Uta Frith on what makes us social, ALD15
No full textProfessor Uta Frith, Emeritus Professor of Cognitive Development at UCL, explains what makes us social. Held at Conway Hall, Ada Lovelace Day Live 2015 featured inspiring women speakers, covering everything from autism to the Mars Rover. Find out more about Ada Lovelace Day and future events on findingada.com. Video sponsored by Digital Science and produced by Howl Films. </div
What Makes Us Social?
No full textA deep dive into the social mind-brain, examining the processes we share with other social animals and illuminating those that are uniquely human.What Makes Us Social? is a scholarly but accessible exploration of the underlying processes that make humans the most social species on the planet. Chris and Uta Frith, pioneers in the field of cognitive neuroscience, review the many forms of social behavior that we humans share with other animals and examine the special form that only humans possess, including its dark side. These uniquely human abilities allow us to reflect on our behavior and share these reflections with other people, which in turn enables us to reason why we do things and to exert some control over our automatic behaviors. As a result, we can learn cooperatively with others and create and value cultural artifacts that survive through the generations. Going beyond how we come to know ourselves and understand the minds of others, Frith and Frith investigate how we adapt mutually to make social interactions work. This book stands out in its application of a computational framework—one that lies at the intersection of psychology and artificial intelligence—to key concepts of social cognition, such as empathy, trust, group identity, and reputation management. Ultimately, What Makes Us Social? is a profound examination of the ways we communicate, cooperate, share, and compete with other humans and how these capabilities define us as a species
Reputation matters
No full textUta Frith and Chris Frith spoke at the Royal Institution around the launch of their ‘graphic
biography’ Two Heads, written with their son Alex Frith and illustrated by Daniel Locke.
We are going to give you a pot of money. You can give as much (or as little) as you like to
us. Then we’re going to triple the amount you gave us and give it to someone else. They
can give as much (or as little) from the pot back to us, and this time we’ll triple the amount
and give it to you. What do you do?
This is the Trust Game, developed by accounting professor Joyce Berg. Giving away
money advertises that you are a trustworthy person, but you take the risk that the other player
in this game simply takes the money and runs. Because of this risk, classic economic theory
predicts that you would keep the money, particularly if you are player two. So what actually
happened?
Berg and others have found only about 11 per cent of player ones give no money. In
fact, most player ones give more than half of what they have, and most player twos are even
more generous. It seems more important for players to advertise they are trustworthy than to
keep the swag. Why
Movement and Mind: A Functional Imaging Study of Perception and Interpretation of Complex Intentional Movement Patterns.
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