1. Foresight Cognitive Systems Project Social Cognition Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience University College London Uta Frith and Sarah-Jayne Blakemore

2. Social Cognition Interdisciplinary interest Comparative psychology Developmental psychology Cognitive neuroscience Computer science and artificial intelligence Social psychology

3. Social Cognition: a new domain of Cognitive Neuroscience Social Cognition: Any cognitive process that involves other people Focus on computational and neural mechanisms >3 Social Cognition special issues in Neuroscience journals in the past year

4. Mechanisms of Social Cognition

5. Recognising faces Recognising emotional expressions

6. Detecting eye gaze

7. Perceiving biological motion

8. Imitation

9. Theory of Mind

10. Complex Emotions: –Embarrassment –Empathy –Morality

11. When social communication fails Antisocial behaviour Conduct disorder Autism Schizophrenia Psychopathy

12. Current and future interests Life span development: childhood, adolescence, adulthood, old age Genetics Reputation management, trustworthiness Social IQ Prejudice Imitating role models Fanaticism Moral responsibility, free will

13. Social Robots? Is human social interaction special? Artificial agent communication, learning and teaching Facial and emotion recognition in machines Cars that respond to emotion Electronic aids for social interaction Robot companions, toys