Social and Affective Neuroscience of Everyday Human Interaction

Molecular imaging of the human emotion circuit.- The neurocognitive mechanisms of unconscious emotional responses.- Social and Affective Neuroscience of Embodiment.- The neuroscience of beauty.- Mirror Neurons ... in action: ERPs and neuroimaging evidence.- Sex differences in social cognition.- Development of morality and emotional processing.- Trust in Social Interaction: From Dyads to Civilizations.- The time has come to be mindwanderful: Mind wandering and the intuitive psychology mode.- Social Cognition development and socio affective dysfunction in childhood and adolescence.- Clinical neuroscience meets second-person neuropsychiatry.- EEG and ERPs in the study of Language and Social Knowledge.- fMRI and fNIRS methods for social brain studies: hyperscanning possibilities.- Modulating the Social and Affective Brain with transcranial stimulation techniques.- What our eyes can tell us about our social and affective brain?.- Facial EMG - Investigating the interplay of facial muscles and emotions.

Paulo Sergio Boggio holds a Bachelor's degree in Psychology, MSc and PhD from the University of São Paulo. He leads the Social and Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory at the Center for Health and Biological Sciences, Mackenzie Presbyterian University. He is a Professor in Developmental Disorders and Psychology at Mackenzie Presbyterian University. He is a CNPq researcher Fellow and a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science. In 2011, he was elected an Affiliate Member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences. He has wide experience in the field of Psychology, with an emphasis on Social and Affective Neuroscience. He also has experience with the use of non-invasive techniques of brain stimulation, high density EEG, eye-tracking, and other techniques.
Tanja S. H. Wingenbach holds a B.Sc. in Psychology (University of Luxembourg), a M.Sc. in Clinical Psychology (University of Basel), and a PhD in Psychology (University of Bath). From 2017-2019, she held apost-doctoral fellowship at the Social and Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory, Mackenzie Presbyterian University in Sao Paulo. She was a post-doctoral senior research fellow at the University of Zurich / University Hospital Zurich from 2019-2022, after which she joined the University of Greenwich as a Lecturer in Psychology. Her research falls within emotion sciences and encompasses typical as well as atypical populations.

Marília Lira da Silveira Coêlho graduated as a physiotherapist from the University Center of Bahia - FIB and holds a MSc from the Federal University of Bahia and a PhD from Mackenzie Presbyterian University. She is currently a researcher at the Social and Cognitive Neuroscience Lab and professor at the physiotherapy course at Mackenzie University. She studies multisensory integration, visuospatial perception, perceptual illusion, body image, transcranial direct current stimulation and Functional Near Infrared Spectroscopy.
William Edgar Comfort received his B.S. in Psychology from Bangor