Organised by Simone Shamay-Tsoory and Uri Hertz, A Penny for Your Thoughts is a workshop on social cognition, exploring how culture and values, friends and family, define who we are, and help us to make sense of the social environment. The event brings together scientists of the mind with varied approaches to the study of interactions, ranging from developmental psychology and cognitive neuroscience, to neurobiology and clinical psychology, with the goal to spark discussion and future...

Organised by Simone Shamay-Tsoory and Uri Hertz, A Penny for Your Thoughts is a workshop on social cognition, exploring how culture and values, friends and family, define who we are, and help us to make sense of the social environment. The event brings together scientists of the mind with varied approaches to the study of interactions, ranging from developmental psychology and cognitive neuroscience, to neurobiology and clinical psychology, with the goal to spark discussion and future...

The Human Mind Project and Being Human The Neural Basis of Real-World Social Interaction Dr Suzanne Dikker (Utrecht University, Dept. of Language and Communication; New York University, Dept. of Psychology) Most of us interact with other people on a daily basis. Yet, we know very little about how the brain supports dynamic social interactions. In this talk, Suzanne Dikker will discuss a series of projects in which she collaborated with scientists, artists, and educators to investigate the...

The Human Mind Project and Being Human The Neural Basis of Real-World Social Interaction Dr Suzanne Dikker (Utrecht University, Dept. of Language and Communication; New York University, Dept. of Psychology) Most of us interact with other people on a daily basis. Yet, we know very little about how the brain supports dynamic social interactions. In this talk, Suzanne Dikker will discuss a series of projects in which she collaborated with scientists, artists, and educators to investigate the...

The Human Mind Project and Being Human Creativity and the Mind Berys Gaut (University of St Andrews) Creativity means innovation and positive change, the inventing of new worlds out of sparks of genius. A creative mind is a mind that generates ideas and solutions likely to make a breakthrough at the societal level. Creative activity evokes chaos and order, allowing us to establish new paths and patterns. What is the creative mind? Is creativity a feature of our attitude towards things,...

The Human Mind Project and Being Human Creativity and the Mind Simon Colton (Goldsmiths and Falmouth) Creativity means innovation and positive change, the inventing of new worlds out of sparks of genius. A creative mind is a mind that generates ideas and solutions likely to make a breakthrough at the societal level. Creative activity evokes chaos and order, allowing us to establish new paths and patterns. What is the creative mind? Is creativity a feature of our attitude towards things,...

The Human Mind Project and Being Human Creativity and the Mind Berys Gaut (University of St Andrews) Creativity means innovation and positive change, the inventing of new worlds out of sparks of genius. A creative mind is a mind that generates ideas and solutions likely to make a breakthrough at the societal level. Creative activity evokes chaos and order, allowing us to establish new paths and patterns. What is the creative mind? Is creativity a feature of our attitude towards things,...

The Human Mind Project and Being Human Creativity and the Mind Opening remarks Mattia Gallotti (The Human Mind Project) Margaret Boden (University of Sussex) Creativity means innovation and positive change, the inventing of new worlds out of sparks of genius. A creative mind is a mind that generates ideas and solutions likely to make a breakthrough at the societal level. Creative activity evokes chaos and order, allowing us to establish new paths and patterns. What is the creative mind?...

The Human Mind Project and Being Human Creativity and the Mind Opening remarks Mattia Gallotti (The Human Mind Project) Margaret Boden (University of Sussex) Creativity means innovation and positive change, the inventing of new worlds out of sparks of genius. A creative mind is a mind that generates ideas and solutions likely to make a breakthrough at the societal level. Creative activity evokes chaos and order, allowing us to establish new paths and patterns. What is the creative mind?...

The Human Mind Project and Being Human Creativity and the Mind Simon Colton (Goldsmiths and Falmouth) Creativity means innovation and positive change, the inventing of new worlds out of sparks of genius. A creative mind is a mind that generates ideas and solutions likely to make a breakthrough at the societal level. Creative activity evokes chaos and order, allowing us to establish new paths and patterns. What is the creative mind? Is creativity a feature of our attitude towards things,...

School of Advanced Study Agency, Morals & the Mind Agency and Subjectivity Volition and Value Patrick Haggard | Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London The Human Mind Project

School of Advanced Study Agency, Morals & the Mind Agency and Subjectivity Getting Out of Your Head: Addiction and the Motive to Self-Escape Lucy O'Brien | Professor of Philosophy, University College London The Human Mind Project

School of Advanced Study Agency, Morals & the Mind Morals, Culture and Society Responsibility as a Social Construction Catherine Wilson | Anniversary Professor of Philosophy, University of York From an empirical perspective, it is important for an animal to distinguish between its own doings, the kinds of actions over which it exerts control, and things that 'just happen' to it. However, the distinction is not precise, and the animal is, after all, just a complicated mechanism in...

School of Advanced Study Agency, Morals & the Mind Opening remarks Mattia Gallotti | Research Fellow in Philosophy; Project Manager, The Human Mind Project, School of Advanced Study, University of London Morals, Culture and Society Will to Fight: Devoted Actors and the Spiritual Dimension of Human Conflict Scott Atran | Director of Research, CNRS; and Research Fellow, University of Oxford Uncompromising wars, revolution, rights movements, and today’s global terrorism are in part...

School of Advanced Study Agency, Morals & the Mind Opening remarks Mattia Gallotti | Research Fellow in Philosophy; Project Manager, The Human Mind Project, School of Advanced Study, University of London Morals, Culture and Society Will to Fight: Devoted Actors and the Spiritual Dimension of Human Conflict Scott Atran | Director of Research, CNRS; and Research Fellow, University of Oxford Uncompromising wars, revolution, rights movements, and today’s global terrorism are in part...

School of Advanced Study Agency, Morals & the Mind Morals, Culture and Society How does the Behaviour of Others Influence What We Do? Emma Flynn | Professor of Developmental and Comparative Psychology, Durham University How do we become members of our cultural group? How, and why, do we learn the traditions of the society within which we live? In my talk I present research which examines how young children learn from other individuals in their social group. I present a series of...

School of Advanced Study Emotion, Memory & the Mind Anatomizing the Emotions: The Human Mind in History Thomas Dixon (Reader in History, Queen Mary University of London; Director, Centre for the History of the Emotions In this talk I will survey the history of emotions as a burgeoning field of historical research, making use of several of my own research topics to illustrate the various ways in which a historical perspective can complement a scientific one, and contribute to the...

School of Advanced Study Emotion, Memory & the Mind Body Memory and Affectivity Giovanna Colombetti (Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Exeter) In the tradition of phenomenology, philosophers like Bergson and Merleau-Ponty talked about the capacity of our bodies to remember—a phenomenon called body memory in English. I will first illustrate this phenomenon with some examples, and explain its connection to the further phenomenological notions of ‘body schema’,...

School of Advanced Study Emotion, Memory & the Mind Body Memory and Affectivity Giovanna Colombetti (Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Exeter) In the tradition of phenomenology, philosophers like Bergson and Merleau-Ponty talked about the capacity of our bodies to remember—a phenomenon called body memory in English. I will first illustrate this phenomenon with some examples, and explain its connection to the further phenomenological notions of ‘body schema’,...

School of Advanced Study Emotion, Memory & the Mind Anatomizing the Emotions: The Human Mind in History Thomas Dixon (Reader in History, Queen Mary University of London; Director, Centre for the History of the Emotions In this talk I will survey the history of emotions as a burgeoning field of historical research, making use of several of my own research topics to illustrate the various ways in which a historical perspective can complement a scientific one, and contribute to the...

School of Advanced Study Emotion, Memory & the Mind Mass Observing Emotion in Post-War Britain Claire Langhamer (Professor of Modern British History, University of Sussex) This paper has two objectives: one is methodological and the other is empirical. First it explores the issues at stake in accessing feelings in the past. How do historians ‘get at’ emotion and what feeling evidence is available to us? Here I am particularly interested in identifying sources that allow access to the...

School of Advanced Study Emotion, Memory & the Mind Mass Observing Emotion in Post-War Britain Claire Langhamer (Professor of Modern British History, University of Sussex) This paper has two objectives: one is methodological and the other is empirical. First it explores the issues at stake in accessing feelings in the past. How do historians ‘get at’ emotion and what feeling evidence is available to us? Here I am particularly interested in identifying sources that allow access to the...

School of Advanced Study Emotion, Memory & the Mind Chair: Mattia Gallotti (Research Fellow in Philosophy; Project Manager, The Human Mind Project, School of Advanced Study, University of London) Autobiographical Memory and the Self Catherine Loveday (Principal Lecturer in Psychology, University of Westminster) Autobiographical memory plays a profound part in our sense of self, the way we view our future and the relationships we have with others. In this talk I will use empirical...

School of Advanced Study Emotion, Memory & the Mind Opening Remarks Anil Seth (Professor of Cognitive & Computational Neuroscience, University of Sussex; Co-Director, Sackler Centre for Consciousness Science) Chair: Mattia Gallotti (Research Fellow in Philosophy; Project Manager, The Human Mind Project, School of Advanced Study, University of London) The Creative Navigator's Compass: Memory and Perception, and How We Know Where We Are Nicola Clayton (Professor of Comparative...