Social perception across the lifespan

每天，我们都会遇到各种各样的社会信号，这些信号为我们需要如何表现提供了微妙但重要的见解（例如，判断某人的情绪或他们社会关注的焦点）。我们感知和正确解释这些信号的能力对于成功的互动和幸福至关重要，而社会感知能力的下降（例如在述情障碍、自闭症等情况下）可能导致许多困难，这些困难会产生广泛的影响，包括社交能力差和孤立。近年来，社会神经科学领域对支持社会感知的机制以及它们如何随着年龄的增长而变化产生了许多新颖的见解。本系列研讨会旨在汇集研究整个生命周期（如婴儿期、青春期、成年期和老年期）社会知觉机制的研究人员，讨论与社会知觉能力如何随年龄增长而变化有关的及时问题，包括：我们的社会知觉能力在整个生命周期中发生了什么变化；是什么机制促成了这一点？这些变化的后果是什么？以及我们能否促进社会感知能力的积极变化。它还旨在让研究人员与公众/专业人士（如教师、护理人员、政策制定者）接触，了解社会感知能力在整个生命周期中是如何变化的，以及这对社会会产生什么影响。为实现这一目标，将举行一系列四次讲习班和一次在线会议。工作坊将在一年的时间内展开，每个工作坊都聚焦于不同的主题：1)儿童时期的社会知觉，2)青少年时期的社会知觉，3)成年期的社会知觉，4)老年期的社会知觉。在线会议将在为期一年的研讨会之后进行，并作为与研讨会相关的关键问题的讨论论坛（使用文本和视频剪辑）。研讨会的形式将包括资深职业研究人员的主题演讲，随后讨论由早期职业研究人员提出的关键问题，最后由所有研讨会参与者向主题演讲者和讨论者提问和回答。每个研讨会将包括两位主讲人和四位讨论者。这种形式将促进所有研讨会参与者就与整个生命周期的社会感知机制有关的重要问题进行积极对话，并促进早期和高级职业研究人员之间的讨论。该网站将为进一步的知识转移、用户参与以及与研究有关的关键问题的讨论提供一个途径，这些研究涉及整个生命周期的社会感知能力。总而言之，这个系列的研讨会将结合一系列的研讨会，集中在整个生命周期的社会感知机制和一个网络会议相关的同一主题。研讨会将结合资深研究人员的讲座和早期职业研究人员的讨论环节，并为所有研讨会参与者提供机会，讨论与社会感知机制如何随着年龄的增长而变化相关的关键问题。网络会议将进一步促进这些讨论，并将讲习班的影响扩大到跨国/那些不能亲自参加的人（包括公众成员）。因此，该系列研讨会将促进不同学术团体（如早期/晚期职业研究人员）之间的互动，并与更广泛的受众（如公共/专业团体）接触，了解社会感知能力如何随着年龄的增长而变化（以及这对社会的影响）。

From day to day we encounter a variety of social signals that provide subtle but important insights into how we need to behave (e.g. judging someones' emotions or the focus of their social attention). Our ability to perceive and correctly interpret these signals is critically important to successful interactions and well-being, and reductions in social perception abilities (e.g. in conditions like alexithymia, autism) can lead to a number of difficulties that have wide impacts including poor social competence and isolation. In recent years the field of social neuroscience has led to a number of novel insights into the mechanisms that support social perception and how they change as we age. This seminar series aims to bring together researchers working on mechanisms of social perception across the lifespan (e.g. in infancy, in adolescence, in adulthood, and in the elderly) to discuss timely issues related to how social perception abilities change as we age, including: what changes occur to our social perception abilities across the lifespan; what mechanisms contribute to this; what are the consequences of these changes; and whether we can facilitate positive changes in social perception abilities. It also aims to allow researchers to engage with the public/professionals (e.g. teachers, carers, policy makers) about how social perception abilities change across the lifespan and what impact this can have for society. To achieve this aim, a series of four workshops and an online conference will be held. The workshops will be spread over a one year period with each focused on a different theme: 1) social perception in childhood, 2) social perception in adolescence, 3) social perception in adulthood, 4) social perception in the elderly. The online conference will run beyond the one year workshops and serve as a discussion forum about key issues related to the workshops (using text and video clips). The format of the workshops will include keynote talks given by senior career researchers, followed by discussions of key issues raised by the talks that will be given by early career researchers, and finally questions and answers from all workshop participants for the keynote speaker and the discussants. Each workshop will contain two keynote speakers and four discussants. This format will promote an active dialogue about important issues related to mechanisms of social perception across the lifespan for all workshop participants and facilitate discussions between early and senior career researchers. The website will provide a means for further knowledge transfer, user-engagement, and discussion of key issues related to studies examining social perception abilities across the lifespan.In sum, this seminar series will combine a series of workshops centered on mechanisms of social perception across the lifespan with a web conference related to the same topic. The workshops will integrate talks by senior researchers with discussion sessions led by early career researchers, and provide an opportunity for all workshop participants to contribute to discussions of key issues related to how mechanisms of social perception change as we age. The web conference will facilitate these discussions further and widen the impact of the workshops cross-nationally/to those that cannot physically attend (including members of the public). The seminar series will therefore promote interactions between different groups of academics (e.g. early/late career researchers), and engage with a wider audience (e.g. public/professional bodies) about how social perception abilities change as we age (and the impact of this for society).