2nd edition of the SISSA International Summer School in Social Cognitive Neuroscience (SCoNe). SCoNe is set up for advanced PhD students and junior post-docs and will take place in Trieste (Italy), July 21- August 1, 2014.
Social Cognitive Neuroscience is an emerging field with an interdisciplinary vision on human behavior in social contexts. This year topics will be Neuroscience of Social Information Processing (i.e., social judgment, stereotyping, prejudice, face perception and emotion), and Neuroscience of food processing (i.e., neurobehavioral mechanisms of appetitive motivation, reward, and food preferences in humans and primates).
Accommodation, eating, and travel costs for all accepted students to the summer school will be covered by the organizers. Accepted students will be asked to pay only a registration fee (450 Euro).
The deadline for applying is: April 18th, 2014.
Detailed information about SCoNe 2014 and on how to apply can be found on http://bit.ly/1e4EcYs or visit SISSA’s webpage www.sissa.it
For questions please contact the organization: scone2014@sissa.it
The speakers at SCoNe 2014 are:
John T. Cacioppo (University of Chicago, US), Stefanie Cacioppo (University of Chicago, US), Stefano Cappa (IUSS Pavia, IT), William Cunningham (University of Toronto, Canada), Giuseppe di Pellegrino (Bologna University, IT), Francesco Foroni (SISSA – Trieste, IT), Marta Maieron (AOUD Udine, IT), Paola Mengotti (SISSA – Trieste, IT), Paul Rozin (University of Pennsylvania, US), Raffaella I. Rumiati (SISSA – Trieste, IT), Michela Sarlo (University of Padova, IT), Giorgia Silani (SISSA – Trieste, IT), Luca Ticini (University of Manchester, UK), Alexander Todorov (Princeton University, US), Ulrike Toepel (CHUV, Lausanne, Switzerland), Elisabetta Visalberghi (CNR, Roma, IT).
Scientific Committee: Raffaella Rumiati (SISSA, IT), Francesco Foroni (SISSA, IT), David Amodio (NYU, US), Giuseppe di Pellegrino (Bologna University, IT), Stefano Cappa (IUSS, IT)
Sponsors: FoodCast Project, Comune di Trieste