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Mark Lumley

Social neuroscientist Antonia Hamilton on social connotations of imitation, copying silly actions, and mockery

Neural Basis of Vocal Communication

Neurobiologist Sophie Scott on human speech, exaggerating gender differences, and the perception of voice information

Talents in Autism

Developmental psychologist Uta Frith on two types of attention, perception of details, and the absolute pitch

Neuropsychologist Chris Frith on mirror neurons, compassion, and how it depends on the sentiment towards the subject and his race

The Science of Laughter

Neuroscientist Sophie Scott on contagion effects in laughter, conduct disorder, and the tribes of Namibia

Dynamic Causal Modelling

Neuroscientist Karl Friston on functional specialization of different brain areas, brain hierarchy, and the connectome

National Identity in the Age of Migration

Sociologist Peter Kivisto on Eugen Weber, settler states, and Jihadist terrorism

Social Cognition

Neuropsychologist Chris Frith on the experiments with biological motion, emotion recognition, and open questions of cognitive psychology

Behavioral Genetics

Behavioral geneticist Robert Plomin on twin studies, genetic influence of parents on their children, and 1% of DNA that makes people different

LSD: Mechanism of Action and Side Effects

Pharmacologist David Nichols on the psychedelics, hallucinogen persisting perceptual disorder, and therapeutic effects of LSD

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