Topic: Developmental Psychology

This webinar will demonstrate changes that are already happening at individual, institutional and funder level to shift research culture toward supporting credible research, and will allow attendees working in neuroscience to ask further questions to our speakers. Our panel of speakers, chaired by Ana Dorrego-Rivas: Emily Farran, Professor in Developmental Psychology and Academic Lead Research Culture and Integrity at the University of Surrey Rosa Sancho, Head of Research at Alzheimer's Research UK Sepideh Keshavarzi, Senior Research Fellow at the Sainsbury Wellcome Centre

In this lecture, I would like to share with the broad audience the empirical results gathered and the theoretical advancements made in the framework of the Lendület project entitled ’The cognitive basis of human sociality’. The main objective of this project was to understand the mechanisms that enable the unique sociality of humans, from the angle of cognitive science. In my talk, I will focus on recent empirical evidence in the study of three fundamental social cognitive functions (social categorization, theory of mind and social learning; mainly from the empirical lenses of developmental p