Social & Affective Neuroscience Society
2015 Annual Meeting
April 23-25 | The Revere Hotel
Boston, Massachusetts
Web | www.socialaffectiveneuro.org/conferences.html
Conference Chairs
Leah Somerville, Harvard University
Thalia Wheatley, Dartmouth College
Program Committee
Lauren Atlas, National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health, NIH
Amanda Bruce, University of Missouri-Kansas City
Elliot Berkman, University of Oregon
Joshua Buckholtz, Harvard University
Luke Chang, Dartmouth College
Emily Falk, University of Pennsylvania
Inna Fishman, San Diego State University
Chad Forbes, University of Delaware
Aaron Heller, University of Miami
Kateri McRae, University of Denver
Jennifer Pfeifer, University of Oregon
Eva Telzer, University of Illinois
Christian Waugh, Wake Forest University
Jamil Zaki, Stanford University
SANS Executive Committee
Alexander Todorov, President
Elizabeth Phelps, President-Elect
Tor Wager, Past-President
Kateri McRae, Secretary
Emily Falk, Treasurer
Andreas Olsson, Member-at-Large
Leah Somerville, Member-at-Large
Jamil Zaki, Member-at-Large
Preliminary Conference Schedule
Please note: This is a draft schedule and is subject to change.
Thursday April 23
Start
End
Session
4:00 PM
9:00 PM
Registration
5:00 PM
6:00 PM
Welcome and Keynote Address by Michael Platt
6:00 PM
7:30 PM
Poster Session A & Welcome Reception
Friday April 24
Start
End
Session
8:00 AM
9:00 AM
Continental Breakfast and Registration
9:00 AM
10:30 AM
Symposium Session 1: Social Cognition Across Species
10:30 AM
10:45 AM
Coffee Break
10:45 AM
12:00 PM
Distinguished Scholar Address by James Gross
12:00 PM
1:30 PM
Lunch Break & Optional Funding Luncheon
1:30 PM
3:00 PM
Symposium Session 2: Affect & Altruism
3:00 PM
4:30 PM
Poster Session B & Coffee Break
4:30 PM
6:00 PM
Presidential Symposium: Innovative approaches for understanding
the social brain
6:00 PM
7:00 PM
Presidential Reception
Saturday April 25
Start
End
Session
8:00 AM
9:00 AM
Continental Breakfast
9:00 AM
10:30 AM
Symposium 3: From Perception to Emotion
10:30 AM
10:50 AM
Coffee Break
10:50 AM
12:20 PM
Faculty Blitz Talks
12:20 PM
2:00 PM
Lunch Break
2:00 PM
3:00 PM
Graduate Students Present
3:00 PM
4:30 PM
Poster Session C & Coffee Break
4:30 PM
6:00 PM
Symposium 4: Dyads, Groups, & Networks
6:00 PM
6:15 PM
Closing Remarks
6:15 PM
7:30 PM
Closing Reception
Keynote Address
Michael Platt, Duke University
The biology of strategic social behavior
Distinguished Scholar Address
James Gross, Stanford University
Emotion regulation: Current status and future prospects
Presidential Symposium: Innovative approaches for understanding the social
brain
Winrich Freiwald, Rockefeller University
On the neural circuits for face recognition: A vision science perspective on the social
brain
Uri Hasson, Princeton University
Face to face, Brain to brain: Exploring the mechanisms of dyadic social interactions
Symposium 1: Social Cognition Across Species
Inbal Bartal, University of California, Berkeley
Empathic helping in rats and its modulation by social parameters
Joshua Greene, Harvard University
Judging, feeling, thinking: What makes us special?
Jan Haaker, Karolinska Institutet
Observing others’ face-to-face confrontations shapes social rank learning and threat
responses
Laurie Santos, Yale University
A human unique mind-meld? From behavior-contagion to mind-contagion
Symposium 2: Affect & Altruism
Molly Crockett, Oxford University
Hyperaltruism and its neuromodulation by serotonin and dopamine
Mauricio Delgado, Rutgers University
Savoring the past: The value of recalling positive memories
Daniel Dillon, McLean Hospital, Harvard Medical School
Positive reinforcement enhances encoding of upcoming information
Tali Sharot, University College London
Good news and bad news: How humans incorporate information
Symposium 3: From Perception to Emotion
Adam Anderson, Cornell University
Neural representations of external events and their internal affect
Marc Pell, McGill University
Neurophysiological responses to vocal emotion cues in and out of speech
Philippe Schyns, University of Glasgow
Title TBA
Megan Willis, Australian Catholic University
Enhancement of facial expression recognition by anodal transcranial direct current
stimulation
Symposium 4: Dyads, Groups, & Networks
Jennifer Bartz, McGill University
The pharmacological dissection of affiliation
Dylan Gee, Weill Cornell Medical College
Maternal buffering of human amygdala-prefrontal circuitry during childhood but not
adolescence
Amy Krosch, New York University
Scarcity alters the neural encoding of Black faces: Evidence for a dehumanization
account of racial bias under economic stress
Eric Nelson, National Institute of Mental Health
Neurobiological profiles of socially anxious adolescents as they anticipate and receive
judgments from their peers
Faculty Blitz Talks
Lauren Atlas, National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health, NIH
How expectations shape aversive learning
R. McKell Carter, University of Colorado
The Nexus model of the TPJ and co-opted social function
Mina Cikara, Harvard University
Reduced self-referential neural response during intergroup competition predicts
competitor harm
Catherine Hartley, Weill Cornell Medical College
The developmental emergence of goal-directed behavior
Hackjin Kim, Korea University
Neural basis of valuation and decision-making for self and others
Jennifer Kubota, University of Chicago
The neural underpinnings of implicit prejudice intervention
Kristen Lindquist, University of North Carolina
The brain basis of positive and negative affect: Evidence from a meta-analysis of the
human neuroimaging literature
Dean Mobbs, Columbia University
Social influences on fear
Kyle Ratner, University of California, Santa Barbara
Acetaminophen blunts intergroup biases in mental representations of faces
Alexander Shackman, University of Maryland
The integration of emotion and cognition in the brain
Lucina Uddin, University of Miami
Salience processing and insular cortical function and dysfunction
Dylan Wagner, The Ohio State University
Getting lost in a story and its consequences for social cognition and shared experience
Graduate Students Present
Robert Chavez, Dartmouth College
Self-esteem modulates frontostriatal network interactions supporting self-evaluation and
social cognition: Structural, functional, and longitudinal evidence
Taru Flagan, University of Texas at Austin
Do you like me? Do you like me not?: The neural basis of decoding ambiguous intent
Jessica Koski, Temple University
The embedding of social status in person knowledge: An MVPA study
Sophie Payne, Royal Holloway, University of London
Facing the self or facing the other? Investigating role of rTPJ in self-other distinction with
tDCS
Tyler Santander, University of Virginia
The social (neural) network: A data-driven, multivariate approach to decoding
epigenetic variability in the oxytocin receptor gene
Elaine Shing, Wake Forest University
Perfusion changes in the ventromedial prefrontal cortex curing an affective meaning
processing task predict decreased unpleasantness in daily life events
Mark Thornton, Harvard University
Ventral medial prefrontal cortex supports a multidimensional code for similarity to self
Wanting Zhong, Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago & Northwestern University
Disentangling the inner workings of emotional empathy in traumatic brain injury patients
Funding Lunch Session
This optional event will feature brief presentations and a panel discussion with
representatives from major SANS-area funding agencies:
Alumit Ishai, National Science Foundation
Sally Dickerson, National Science Foundation
Rebecca Ferrer, National Cancer Institute
Adam Russell, IARPA
Janine Simmons, National Institute of Mental Health
Please note: this event requires special registration. Lunch will be provided to all
registrants.