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Culture, Mind, and Brain:
Emerging Concepts, Methods, Applications
October 19-20, 2012
FRIDAY, October 19, 2012
8:45
Introduction: Robert Lemelson, President, FPR; Research Anthropologist, Semel Institute for Neuroscience; Assistant Adjunct Professor, Department of Anthropology, UCLA
9:00–10:15
Session 1: "Why culture, mind, and brain?"
Chair: Greg Downey, Department of Anthropology, Macquarie University
Chair: Greg Downey, Department of Anthropology, Macquarie University
9:00
Steven Heine, Department of Psychology, UBC
9:25
Marco Iacoboni, Department of Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences, UCLA
9:50
Greg Downey, Department of Anthropology, Macquarie University
10:15–1:00
Session 2: Sociocultural influences on gene expression
Chair: Steve Cole, Department of Medicine, Division of Hematology & Oncology, UCLA
Chair: Steve Cole, Department of Medicine, Division of Hematology & Oncology, UCLA
10:15
Overview: Social regulation of gene expression / Steve Cole, Department of Medicine, Division of Hematology & Oncology, UCLA
10:40
Socioeconomic status and childhood asthma: Psychobiological approaches / Edith Chen, Department of Psychology, UBC
11:05–11:30
Coffee Break
11:30
Behavioral, biological, and epigenetic consequences of different early social experiences in primates / Stephen Suomi, Section on Comparative Behavioral Genetics, NICHD
11:55
Social and individual factors, separately and in interaction, affect gene expression in immunodeficient rhesus monkeys / John Capitanio, Department of Psychology, UCD
12:20–1:20
Lunch
1:20
Social isolation / John Cacioppo, Department of Psychology, University of Chicago; and Steve Cole, Department of Medicine, Division of Hematology & Oncology, UCLA
1:45
PANEL DISCUSSION with Speakers
Invited Discussants: Beate Ritz, Department of Epidemiology, UCLA; Carol Worthman, Department of Anthropology, Emory University
Invited Discussants: Beate Ritz, Department of Epidemiology, UCLA; Carol Worthman, Department of Anthropology, Emory University
2:15–5:00
Session 3: Linking cultural and genetic diversity in mind, brain and body
Chair: Joan Chiao, Department of Psychology, Northwestern University
Chair: Joan Chiao, Department of Psychology, Northwestern University
2:15
Insights from rare variant genetic diversity in human populations / John Novembre, Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, UCLA
2:40
Carlos Bustamante, Department of Genetics, Stanford University
3:05
The role of oxytocin receptor polymorphism in socio-emotional processes in different cultures /
Heejung Kim, Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences, UCSB
3:30–4:00
Coffee Break
4:00
Cultural neuroscience: Progress and future directions / Joan Chiao, Department of Psychology, Northwestern University
4:25
PANEL DISCUSSION with Speakers
Invited Discussant: Clarence Gravlee, Department of Anthropology, University of Florida
Invited Discussant: Clarence Gravlee, Department of Anthropology, University of Florida
SATURDAY, October 20, 2012
8:30–10:30
Session 4: Stress and Resilience
Chair: Daniel Lende, Department of Anthropology, University of South Florida
Chair: Daniel Lende, Department of Anthropology, University of South Florida
8:30
Paul Plotsky, Stress Neurobiology Lab, Emory University
8:55
Clarence Gravlee, Department of Anthropology, University of Florida
9:20
Brandon Kohrt, Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, George Washington University
9:45
Varieties of Resilience in MIDUS /
Carol Ryff, Department of Psychology, University of Wisconsin-Madison
10:10–10:30
Coffee Break
10:30
PANEL DISCUSSION with Speakers
Invited Discussant: Edith Chen, Department of Psychology, UBC
Invited Discussant: Edith Chen, Department of Psychology, UBC
11:00–1:15
Session 5: Culture, Cognition, and Self
Chair: Shinobu Kitayama, Department of Psychology, University of Michigan
Chair: Shinobu Kitayama, Department of Psychology, University of Michigan
11:00
Culture wires the brain: A cognitive neuroscience perspective / Denise Park, Center for Vital Longevity, University of Texas, Dallas
11:25
Understanding the self: A cultural neuroscience approach / Georg Northoff, University of Ottawa Institute of Mental Health Research
11:50
Knowing God: How culture and brain both shape religious experience / Tanya Luhrmann, Department of Anthropology, Stanford University
12:15–1:15
Lunch
1:15
Shihui Han, Department of Psychology, Peking University
1:40
Self interest: A perspective of cultural neuroscience / Shinobu Kitayama, Department of Psychology, University of Michigan
2:05
PANEL DISCUSSION with Speakers
2:30–3:45
Session 6: (Multiple) Pathways to Interdisciplinarity
Chair: Mirella Dapretto, PhD, Director, FPR-UCLA Center for Culture, Brain, and Development; Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences, UCLA
Chair: Mirella Dapretto, PhD, Director, FPR-UCLA Center for Culture, Brain, and Development; Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences, UCLA
3:45–4:00
Coffee Break
4:00–5:15
Session 7: Culture and Emotion Regulation/Practices
4:00
FILM: Ngaben: Emotion and Restraint in a Balinese Heart / Robert Lemelson, President, FPR; Research Anthropologist, Semel Institute for Neuroscience; Assistant Adjunct Professor, Department of Anthropology, UCLA
4:20
PANEL DISCUSSION
