DEVELOPMENTAL SOCIAL NEUROSCIENCE: A FIELD IN THE MAKING
New Models, Cross-Species Perspectives, Lifetime Approach, and Implications for Early Interventions
Wednesday, October 3rd
8:30 Gathering
9:00 Opening statement and greetings
Prof. Dan Zakay, Acting Dean, Baruch Ivcher School of Psychology
IDC Herzliya, Israel
Dr. Victoria Simms-Mann, Founder and President, Simms Mann Family Foundation and Simms/Mann Institute
Session 1: Synchrony and Emotional Contagion
Chair: Amir Djalovski, Center for Developmental Social Neuroscience, IDC Herzliya
9:30 Prof. Uri Hasson, Princeton University, USA
I am because we are: exploring the mechanisms of dyadic social interactions
10:15 Prof. Christian Keysers, University of Amsterdam, The Netherland
A cross-species approach to the empathic brain
11:00 Coffee
Session 2: Early Experiences and the Social Brain
Chair: Adi Yaniv, Center for Developmental Social Neuroscience, IDC Herzliya
11:30 Prof. Tallie Z Baram, University of California, Irvine, USA
How early-life experiences sculpt the developing brain
12:15 Prof. Andrew Meltzoff, University of Washington, USA
Foundations of Social Cognition: Self-Other Mapping and the “Like- Me” Hypothesis
13:00 Lunch
Session 3: Early Life Stress and Brain Plasticity
Chair: Dr. Shani Waidergoren, Center for Developmental Social Neuroscience, IDC Herzliya
13:45 Prof. Amir Amedi, The Hebrew university of Jerusalem, Israel
How experience shapes brain specializations
14:30 Prof. Pat Levitt, University of Southern California and Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, USA
Developmental Variables that Influence Susceptibility and Resilience to Early Experience
15:15 Coffee
Session 4: The Microbiome and Early Development
Chair: Karen Yirmiya, Center for Developmental Social Neuroscience, IDC Herzliya
15:45 Prof. Omry Koren, Bar Ilan University, Israel
A microbiome is born: Changes to the microbiome during pregnancy and infancy
16:30 Panel Discussion First Day
Thursday, October 4th
Session 5: The neural basis of prosociality, morality, and love
Chair: Dr. Yoni Levy, Center for Developmental Social Neuroscience, IDC Herzliya
9:00 Prof. Jean Decety, University of Chicago, USA
A developmental social neuroscience perspective on morality
10:15 Prof. Larry Young, Emory University, USA
Neurobiology of Social Bonding, Social Loss and Empathy: Implications for Autism
11:00 Coffee
Session 6: Foundations of the human social brain
Chair: Dr. Orna Zagoory-Sharon, Center for Developmental Social Neuroscience, IDC Herzliya
11:15 Prof. Patricia Kuhl, University of Washington, USA
The Social Brain ‘Gates’ Human Language Learning
12:00 Prof. Valeria Gazzola, University of Amsterdam, The Netherland
How embodied stimulation might help us caring about others
12:45 Prof. Tahl Frenkel, IDC Herzliya, Israel
Predictive relations between maternal contingent responsiveness, infant neural responses and infant social behavior over the first year of life
13:15 Lunch
Session 7: Epigenetics, neural processes, and psychopathology
Chair: Ortal Shimon-Raz, Center for Developmental Social Neuroscience, IDC Herzliya
14:00 Prof. Moshe Zsyf, McGill University, Canada
Epigenetic programming by maternal behavior
14:45 Prof. Rony Paz, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
From normal adaptive learning to psychopathologies in the primate brain
15:30 Coffee
Session 8: Summary and Future Directions
16:00 Prof. Ruth FeldmanIDC Herzliya, Israel
Developmental social neuroscience: Future Directions and Clinical Implications of an Emerging Field
16:45 Panel Discussion