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Social and Affective Neuroscience
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The Social and Affective Neuroscience Programme is part of the Emotion Group at the CBU. The programme leader is Andy Calder.
The Social and Affective Neuroscience Programme explores the neural basis of emotional and social cognitive systems in the brain. To this aim, we use a variety of research methods from neuroimaging to behavioural testing. Some examples of areas of current research include facial expression perception, the effect of individual differences on emotion processing, and the neural mechanisms underlying the perception of social attention. For more details on this and other research, please visit the Social and Affective Neuroscience research pages.
Selected Publications
Calder, A.J., Keane, J., Manes, F., Antoun, N., and Young, A.W. (2000). Impaired recognition and experience of disgust following brain injury, Nature Neuroscience, 3(11), 1077-1078.
Calder, A.J., Lawrence, A.D., and Young, A.W. (2001) Neuropsychology of Fear and Loathing, Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2(5), 352-363
Calder, A.J. and Young, A.W. (2005) Understanding facial identity and facial expression recognition. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 6(8), 641-653
Calder, A.J., Beaver, J.D., Winston, J.S., Dolan, R.J., Jenkins, R., Eger, E., Henson, R.N.A. (2007) Separate Coding of Different Gaze Directions in the Superior Temporal Sulcus and Inferior Parietal Lobule, Current Biology. 17(1) 20-25
Beaver, J.D., Lawrence, A.D., Passamonti, L. and Calder, A.J., (2008). Appetitive motivation predicts the neural response to viewing facial signals of aggression. Journal of Neuroscience, 28: 2719 - 2725
Calder, A.J., Jenkins, R., Cassel, A., and Clifford, C.W.G. (2008) Visual representation of eye gaze is coded by a non-opponent multichannel system, Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 137(20, 244-261