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The Feindel Brain and Mind Seminar Series will advance the vision of Dr. William Feindel (1918–2014), Former Director of the Neuro (1972–1984), 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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±á´Ç²õ³Ù:ÌýJustine Cléry

From Agents to Actions, to Interactions, to Societies: Primates’ Brain Networks for Social Processing

Abstract: Recognizing agents, their actions, and their interactions is essential for understanding the world around us. Using functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging, we discovered in the macaque monkey brain a network of areas centered on the medial and ventrolateral prefrontal cortex that is selectively engaged in social interaction analysis. Its extent and location suggest that this function is an evolutionary forerunner of human mind-reading capabilities. A comparative fMRI investigation in humans additionally revealed which neural strategies adapted to the needs of each species, and emphasized human interest in understanding actions of our peers directed towards objects. Together these studies show how our primate brains continuously decode the complex visual scenes unwinding in front of us: both the nature of material entities, such as individuals and objects, and their immaterial interactions.

Julia Sliwa

CNRS Investigator,Paris Brain Institute, Sorbonne Universite

Julia Sliwa has been recruited as a CNRS Investigator at the Paris Brain Institute in 2019, where she leads the team Neurophysiology of Social Cognition. Previously, she trained as a Kavli Post-Doctoral Fellow and an HFSP Post-Doctoral Fellow at The Rockefeller University in the Laboratory of Pr. Freiwald. She received her PhD degree from the University of Lyon under the guidance of Prs. Wirth and Duhamel. Dr. Sliwa is a recipient of an ERC Starting Grant, of the Peter and Patricia Gruber International Research Award in Neuroscience, of the Young Researchers Bettencourt Prize and of the Association de Femmes Françaises Diplômées d’Université - Dorothy Leet Award.