[lingtalks] TODAY: Jennifer Pfeifer Talk, CSB 003 @ 12pm
Steven Ford
sford at cogsci.ucsd.edu
Mon Feb 26 09:53:48 PST 2007
The UCSD Department of Cognitive Science is pleased to announce a talk by
Jennifer Pfeifer
UCLA, Department of Psychology
Monday, February 26, 2007 at 12pm
Cognitive Science Building Room 003
"Developmental Social Cognitive Neuroscience Approach to Identity"
Abstract
One of the most unique abilities of humankind is the capacity to appreciate
our selves as composed of complex, integrative attributes that are both
enduring and potentially contradictory across situations. This kind of
evaluative self-knowledge has been the subject of dozens of neuroimaging
investigations hoping to find identity in the brain. But identity also
involves particular relational aspects whose neural correlates have been
much less frequently examined, such as social affirmation of self-knowledge
by close others, or group belonging and bias. In this talk I explore
different aspects of personal and social identity in the brain, including
how identities may be informed by, and modulate the functioning of,
mentalizing (deducing what others are thinking). As identity is an ongoing
process but is notably concentrated during certain developmental stages,
this talk incorporates work from pre-adolescent and adult populations to
arrive at new inferences about the functionality of brain regions
previously implicated in identity, as well as the impact that social
contextual factors may have on identity and mentalizing processes. Future
directions of this program of research include longitudinal neuroimaging
investigations now underway, that exploit the period of heightened focus on
identity and mentalizing in adolescence.
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