Not in the United States?Useful Cognitive Neuroscience Websites
Universities (USA)
- University of Chicago - Social Neuroscience Laboratory
- The Social Neuroscience Laboratory is located on the top floor of the Institute for Mind and Biology at The University of Chicago. We call upon a wide range of levels of analysis and a diverse array of methodologies, including experimental social psychology, social cognition, surface event-related brain potential morphological and topographical analyses, functional magnetic resonance imaging, autonomic psychophysiology, surface electromyography, startle blink modulation, behavioral and social endocrinology to address questions about the mechanisms underlying complex social behavior.
- University of Chicago Center for Cognitive and Social Neuroscience
- The mission of the Center is to investigate the interaction of mental and biological mechanisms using multi-level integrative analyses including social, behavioral, psychological, neural, physiological, cellular molecular, and genetic mechanisms. The focus of the Center is the operation of these mechanisms in the context of a broad range of social functions and dysfunctions.
- Georgia State University - Social Neuroscience Laboratory
- The Social Neuroscience Laboratory focuses on the reciprocal influences of the body and mind in the context of human social behavior. With this aim, lab members study emotional, cognitive, social, and physiological processes using a variety of methods. At present, the laboratory is capable of recording several autonomic measures (e.g., electrocardiography, skin conductance, respiration) as well as facial muscle movements (i.e., facial electromyography) while participants perform tasks on a computer, watch a video, or interact with another person. In addition, we will soon be conducting projects that will involve functional neuroimaging, electroencephalography (EEG), eye tracking, robotics, and non-human primates.
- University of Colorado - Social Neuroscience Lab
- The CU Social Neuroscience Lab is a research lab addressing social psychological issues using a multi-level perspective that integrates psychological and physiological measures. We focus in particular on issues related to prejudice, affect, attitudes, and emotion.
- University of Pennsylvania - Center for Cognitive Neuroscience
- Penn's Center for Cognitive Neuroscience is a multidisciplinary community dedicated to understanding the neural bases of human thought. Current CCN research addresses many of the central questions about the mind and brain, from the perception of the visual world, through attention, learning and semantic memory, to emotion and the planning of complex action.
- University of North Carolina - Social Neuroscience Lab
- The UNC Social Cognitive Neuroscience Lab is devoted to examining research questions of theoretical importance to social and cognitive psychology using a combination of psychological, behavioral, and physiological measures. An overview of the measures and research methods typically used in our research can be found here. Currently, the lab is primarily devoted to the study of electrophysiological activity related to person perception (i.e., stereotypes, prejudice, impression-formation, expectancies), aggression, media violence, and alcohol effects on cognition.
- University of Washington - Social Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory
- The academic domain of social cognition attempts to understand and explain how the thoughts, feelings, and behavior of individuals are influenced by the actual, imagined or implied presence of others. Social cognition operates in dynamic interpersonal behavior, i.e., it involves at least two agents who represent each other. However, much of social cognition occurs at an implicit (automatic) level.
- University of California - Social Cognitive Neuroscience Lab
- Most of the research ... involves a social cognitive neuroscience (SCN) approach... Social cognitive neuroscience focuses on how the human brain carries out social information processing. Practically speaking, this means that we use functional neuroimaging (fMRI) and neuropsychology to test new hypotheses regarding social cognition or old questions whose answers continue to elude us.
- Neuroethics.upenn.edu
- Neuroethics.upenn.edu is a source of information on neuroethics, provided by Martha Farah of the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Pennsylvania.
Universities (UK)
- University of Aberdeen - Social Cognition Laboratory
- Research in the Social Cognition Laboratory (SCL) centres around the investigation of the processes that are involved in social interaction and in determining the psychological states of other people. Using a combination of behavioural studies, the latest neuroimaging techniques and work involving clinical populations, we aim to try and understand and explain many of the phenomena that are central in people's everyday lives. We are principally interested in examining theory of mind, face processing, the self, and consciousness, however, our research extends into a wide array of other themes.
- Cardiff University - Cognitive Neuroscience Seminar Series (Sept 04 - Oct 06)
- Located in Cardiff University's School of Psychology (ranked as one of the UK's top psychology school by the RAE 2001 review), the new Cardiff University Brain and Repair Imaging Centre (CUBRIC) builds on existing strengths of research groups and offers a world-class facility based around complementary applications of cognitive and clinical-based research. To highlight and encourage research in these potential growth areas, the School of Psychology is organising a prestigious seminar series. The series will involve presentations and visits from eminent scholars on contemporary developments within cognitive, social and clinical neuroscience research.
- University College London - Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience
- The ICN is an interdisciplinary research institute at UCL. It studies how mental processes relate to the human brain, in health and disease, for adults and children. The ICN fosters an interdisciplinary approach to these issues, by bringing together researchers from the Psychology Department, the Institute of Neurology, the Anatomy Department, and the Human Communication Department, and by using a wide range of methods.
- University of Sheffield - Psychology Department Research
- There are longstanding strengths in cognitive neuroscience that will be integrated via the appointment of Larry Parsons, who studies the neural basis of cognition, perception, and motor behaviour in humans. Specifically, he investigates the brain basis of the following processes: of deduction and probabilistic reasoning; of music perception, cognition, performance, and invention: and of visual-spatial reasoning and mental imagery. Larry Parsons is also on the editorial board of Social Neuroscience.
Psychophysiology at Universities
- University of Michigan - Positive Emotions and Psychophysiology Lab
- We adopt a multifaceted approach to studying emotions, by investigating the interplay between autonomic nervous system (ANS) activity, facial muscle activity, and subjective experiences of emotion. Our lab is equipped with extensive physiological recording devices, several testing computers, and video recording and editing equipment.
- University of California - Berkeley Psychophysiology Laboratory
- The Berkeley Psychophysiology Laboratory is a research laboratory located at the University of California, Berkeley. There they study human emotion by examining the subjective experience of emotion, emotional behavior, and physiological reactivity to emotional stimuli.
- Oberlin College - Oberlin Psychophysiology Laboratory
- Oberlin's Psychophysiology Laboratory provides students with classroom and research experiences that are rarely available to undergraduates. The lab occupies a suite in Severance consisting of a testing room and a control room (Lab B), and a data analysis room (Lab A).
- Stanford University - Stanford Psychophysiology Laboratory
- The research at this Laboratory is funded by NIH and NSF. Ongoing research projects include: The affective consequences of emotion regulation; the neural bases of cognitive reappraisal; the coherence of emotion; personality, emotion, and emotion regulation; emotion regulation and social functioning; emotion dysregulation in Social Phobia and Major Depressive Disorder; the developmental trajectory of emotion regulation; the psychophysiology of self-conscious emotions.
Cognitive and Social Neuroscience in the Media
- Where belief is born - Alok Jha in The Guardian (UK Newspaper)
- ...The work, published last month in Nature Neuroscience, is the latest in a rapidly growing field of research called "social neuroscience", which draws together psychologists, neuroscientists and anthropologists all studying the neural basis for human social interaction...
- At the frontier of science - Beth Azar in Monitor on Psychology
- ...And, for years, researchers such as University of Chicago social psychologist John Cacioppo, PhD, have been working in what he termed "social neuroscience," using techniques such as event-related potentials, molecular biology and autonomic, neuroendocrine and immune responses to study phenomena including attitudes, prejudice and social conflict and connectedness...
- ESRC Media Briefing (April 2005): Social Neuroscience will Shed New Light on Human Behaviour (PDF, 644KB)
- The past five years have seen the emergence of a field of research that has far-reaching potential. Known as Social Neuroscience, this new domain of study is set to spearhead an assault on what has been described as science's final frontier: understanding, even decoding the complex interconnected web that mediates between the brain, and the mind and human behaviour. Already it is making us think again about humanity’s understanding of itself and what this means for the norms and dynamics of how we behave in society.
- Brave New Brain - Steven Rose in The Guardian (UK Newspaper)
- We are living through "the decade of the mind" in which the new sciences of brain and behaviour are offering to explore and explain the inner recesses of our thoughts and actions. The scale and promise of the new brain sciences is extraordinary...
- Facing up to racial fears all in the mind - Tim Radford in The Guardian (UK Newspaper)
- Photographs of black faces trigger the brain's "alarm button" in almost two-thirds of both white and black people, according to the results of a study by American neuroscientists published today...
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