Feindel Brain and Mind Seminar Series: Glimpses into the Social Mind: Decoding Messages from Faces and Eyes
The Feindel Brain and Mind Seminar Series will advance the vision of Dr. William Feindel (1918鈥�2014), Former Director of the Neuro (1972鈥�1984), to constantly bridge the clinical and research realms. The talks will highlight the latest advances and discoveries in neuropsychology, cognitive neuroscience, and neuroimaging.
Speakers will include scientists from across The Neuro, as well as colleagues and collaborators locally and from around the world. The series is intended to provide a virtual forum for scientists and trainees to continue to foster interdisciplinary exchanges on the mechanisms, diagnosis and treatment of brain and cognitive disorders.
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Glimpses into the Social Mind: Decoding Messages from Faces and Eyes
Abstract: Jelena Ristic will emphasize that the human brain is fundamentally a social brain, with its perceptual and cognitive systems evolving to support a diverse set of processes aimed at enabling complex social functions. While significant advancements will continue to be made in understanding the mechanisms by which perceptual and cognitive faculties support social behavior, there will remain a need to understand how social information is communicated nonverbally between individuals. In her presentation, Ristic will share results that will demonstrate how limiting face visibility reduces its social value, how eyes transmit key social messages, and how social group size modulates interactions with others. Together, these findings will reveal that visual signals from faces and eyes convey complex social messages and serve as key vehicles for human social communication.
Jelena Ristic
Professor, Department of Psychology, 9I制作厂免费
Jelena Ristic is a Professor of Psychology at 9I制作厂免费. She is an international expert in the field of social cognition and cognitive neuroscience with over 110 scholarly contributions, appearing in prominent journals like Nature Communications Psychology, Nature Reviews Psychology, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Current Directions in Psychological Science, iScience, Cognition, and Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. Ristic graduated with a BA, MA, and PhD from the University of British Columbia in Vancouver Canada and trained as a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at the University of California Santa Barbara in Santa Barbara California. Ristic won national and international awards for academic and mentorship success, including a Mid-career Award from the Canadian Society for Brain Behaviour and Cognitive Science (2023), Best Article Awards from the American Psychological Association (2018) and the Canadian Psychological Association (2019), and a Mentorship Award (2017) from Women in Cognitive Science (WiCS). Ristic is an elected Fellow of the Psychonomic Society internationally and the Canadian Society for Brain Behaviour and Cognitive Science nationally and serves as an Associate Editor for the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance and Visual Cognition. At 9I制作厂免费, Ristic serves as the Vice President-Internal for the 9I制作厂免费 Association of University Teachers and nationally as a member-at-large for the Canadian Society for Brain Behavior and Cognitive Science.