Social Neuroscience

这个项目将建立一个跨学科的工作小组，并最终在芝加哥大学建立一个社会神经科学中心。该工作小组由PI和一个由九名成员组成的指导委员会指导，将包括来自大学生物科学、社会科学和物理科学研究生部几个系的教员。广泛的分析水平和各种各样的方法将被展示，包括功能磁共振成像，表面事件相关的脑电位形态学和地形分析，留驻（脑内）事件相关的脑电位分析，共配准和源定位，计算神经科学（包括非线性动态分析），神经心理学和行为神经学，精神药理学，自主心理生理学，表面肌电图和惊闪调节，运动学分析，行为和社会内分泌学，认知心理学，社会认知和实验社会心理学。在第一年，将举行一系列内部和外部的演讲者和会议，以发展一种共同的科学语言，以大脑的结构和功能为基础，并检查每种可用方法的优点和局限性。在第二年，会议、正式演讲和研讨会的重点将建立在这个基础上，包括研究我们社会面临的问题的理论和实验范例，如学习、刻板印象和偏见。将进行试点研究，以测试关于刻板印象和偏见的组成过程的神经基质的具体假设。

This project will establish a transdisciplinary working group, and ultimately, a Center on Social Neuroscience at The University of Chicago. This working group, guided by the PI and a nine member steering committee, will involve faculty from several departments in the Biological Sciences, the Social Sciences, and Physical Sciences Graduate Divisions of the University. A wide range of levels of analysis and a diverse array of methodologies will be represented, including functional magnetic resonance imaging, surface event-related brain potential morphological and topographical analyses, indwelling (within the brain) event-related brain potential analyses, coregistration and source localization, computational neuroscience (including nonlinear dynamical analyses), neuropsychology and behavioral neurology, psychopharmacology, autonomic psychophysiology, surface electromyography and startle blink modulation, kinematic analyses, behavioral and social endocrinology, cognitive psychology, social cognition, and experimental social psychology. In the first year, a series of internal and external speakers and meetings will be held to develop a common scientific language, grounded in the structure and function of the brain, and to examine the strengths and limitations of each of the available methodologies. In the second year, the focus of the meetings, formal presentations, and workshops will build on this base to include theories of and experimental paradigms for studying problems confronting our society such as learning, stereotyping and prejudice. Pilot research will be conducted to test specific hypotheses about the neural substrates of the component processes underlying stereotyping and prejudice.