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2008
The value and limits of functional neuroimaging to social neuroscience research. December 2008, Institute of Neuroscience, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan.
Keynote address for the interdisciplinary workshop, "Varieties of Empathy in Science, Art and Culture," October 2008, University of British Columbia in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Interpersonal sensitivity: The pros and limits of the neuroscientific approach. October 2008, Japanese Psycho-Oncology Society, Tokyo, Japan.
Cognitive neuroscience investigations of empathy: Implications for research in psychopathology. September 2008, Psychiatry Grand Rounds, The University of Chicago Medical School, Chicago, Illinois.
Empathy and its modulation. September 2008, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana.
The contribution of executive function to emotion regulation: the case of aggressive behavior in children with conduct disorder. September 2008, 2ndes Journées Internationales de Neurospychologie des Lobes Frontaux et des Fonctions Exécutives, Angers, France.
Caregiving motivation and neural response to pain. May 2008, Social Neuroscience and Human Caregiving, Association for Psychological Science, Chicago, Illinois.
Empathy and prosocial behavior. May 2008, The University of Freiburg Medical School, Freiburg, Germany.
The social neuroscience of empathy. May 2008, Neuroscience of Social Decision Making talk series, Princeton University, New Jersey.
Imaging social cognition. May 2008, Center for NeuroBehavioral Development, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
The contribution of the temporoparietal junction (TPJ) to social interaction. April 2008, Perception in the Social World: A Symposium in Honor of David Perrett, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
The neural mechanisms underlying empathy in typically developing children and adolescents with conduct disorder. April 2008, Hannover Medical School, Germany.
Empathy and its disorders in psychopathology. March 2008, The Mind Institute, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Exploring the neural mechanisms underlying empathy: Implications for psychopathology. March 2008, Erasme Academic Hospital - ULB, Brussels, Belgium.
The neural basis of empathy and morality in typically developing children and adolescents who exhibit antisocial behavior: an fMRI investigation. February 2008, Institute of Neuroscience, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan.
Mimicry: an old trick of nature used in many facets of human culture. February 2008, Institute of Neuroscience, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan.
The role of the temporoparietal junction in social cognition. February 2008, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois.
The neural mechanisms underlying interpersonal sensitivity, including empathy and sympathy. February 2008, Department of Psychiatry, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea.
What can neuroscience tell us about clinical empathy. January 2008. Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
2007
Is it good to be empathic? On the benefits and costs of being empathic. November 2007, Pre-Congress Seminar for Psychiatrists, Sapporo, Japan.
The benefits and the costs of empathy – a social neuroscience view. October 2007, University Hassan II Medical School, Casablanca, Morocco.
Comment percevons-nous la souffrance d'autrui? October 2007, Des Bêtes et des Hommes, Parc de la Villette, Paris.
The functional architecture of human empathy. October 2007, Social neuroscience: developing more powerful behavioral interventions, National Institute on Drug Abuse, Bethesda, Maryland.
Interpersonal exchanges and cognitive development. September 2007, Constructivism and Education, Geneva, Switzerland.
Empathy and its regulation: A cognitive neuroscience perspective. June 2007, Social Cognition Think Tank, The Lifespan Learning Institute, and The Mindsight Institute, Santa Monica, California.
Intersubjectivity from the social neuroscience viewpoint. May 2007, Cercle de Neuropsychologie et Psychanalyse, Hôpital La Salpêtrière, Paris.
The affective and cognitive experience of empathy. April 2007, Conference on Humane Education, Brewster, New York.
Empathy and prosocial behavior: evolutionary and neuroscience perspectives. March 2007, Rush University Medical Center, Skokie, Illinois.
Is social cognition domain-specific? The contribution of social neuroscience. March 2007. School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan.
From emotion contagion to empathic understanding: a developmental social neuroscience approach. March 2007. Department of Cognitive Neuroscience, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan.
Empathy as the source of altruism: a social neuroscience perspective. February 2007, National Cancer Center, Kashiwa City, Japan.
The empathic brain and its dysfunction in psychiatric populations. February 2007, National Center of Mental Health, Tokyo, Japan.
The behavioral and neural mechanisms of empathy. January 2007, Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Memphis, Tennessee.
2006
Dissecting the construct of empathy with cognitive neuroscience. October 2006, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia.
Shared neural circuits and intersubjectivity. October 2006, Shared subjectivity in brain, mind and psychopathology, Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
The neural mechanisms of empathy. October 2006, The evolutionary and neurobiological aspects of the moral sense, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium.
Social neuroscience of theory of mind and empathy. September 2006, Peking University, Beijing, People's Republic of China.
To what extent can we share the pain of others? Functional MRI investigations of empathy for pain. August 2006, School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan.
The social neuroscience of empathy. June 2006, The University of Freiburg Medical School, Psychosomatisches Dienstagskolloquium, Freiburg, Germany.
I share your pain, but don’t feel it: The neural mechanisms of human empathy. June 2006, Brain-Mind Institute. Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland.
The developmental and cognitive neuroscience of empathy. June 2006, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany.
The social neuroscience of empathy. May 2006, NIH/NINSD, Cognitive Neuroscience Section. Bethesda, Maryland.
A cognitive neuroscience perspective on human empathy. May 2006, Maison des Universites, Paris, France.
Imagining being hurt as a tool to explore the neural architecture mediating human empathy. February 2006, Center for Integrative Neuroscience and Neuroengineering Seminar Series. The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois.
2005
A social neuroscience viewof human empathy. November 2005, Center for Cognitive and Social Neuroscience, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois.
Neurological mechanisms mediating self-other representation. October 2005, Croyance, Raison et Deraison, College de France, Paris, France.
From motor mimicry to intentional imitation: A common representational framework for action representation. July 2005, EpiRob Fifth International Workshop on Epigenetic Robotics, Nara, Japon.
No empathy without agency. May 2005, From Social Resonance to Agency: Multidisciplinary Perspectives, Paris, France.
The ‘Like Me’ hypothesis: Neuroscience and developmental perspectives. A joint-lecture with Andrew N. Meltzoff. April 2005, Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD) Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia.
The anatomy of human empathy: Articulating developmental psychology, social psychology and cognitive neuroscience. March 2005, Psychiatry/Neurology Grand Rounds Lecture, The Chicago Medical School, North Chicago, Illinois.
Empathy and Metacognition. March 2005, Institut Jean Nicod, Paris, France.
The functional architecture of human empathy. February 2005, Scripps College Humanities Institute, Claremont, California.
From perception-action coupling to simulation and social interaction. February 2005, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois.
2004
Human empathy: A social neuroscience view. December 2004, University of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
The social self from a neuroscience perspective. October 2004, Rutgers University, Newark, New Jersey.
Adam Smith revisited by cognitive neuroscience: Neuroimaging investigations of imagining the other acting, thinking and feeling. September 2004, The University of Utah. Salt Lake City, Utah.
The imitative mind. July 2004, School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan.
The anatomy of empathy: A multidisciplinary perspective. July 2004, Integrated Brain Research Center, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan.
Thomas Hobbes or Adam Smith? Empathy in light of social neuroscience. June 2004, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Canada.
Human empathy: Its functional architecture. June 2004, Killam Lectures, Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University. Montreal, Canada.
The functional architecture of human empathy. June 2004, The University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands.
Mental simulation of behavior: What's up, what's new? June 2004, Third Dutch Endo-neuro-psycho Meeting, Doorwerth, The Netherlands.
The anatomy of human empathy. April 2004, The University of Texas at Arlington, Department of Psychology, Arlington, Texas.
The functional anatomy of human empathy. April 2004, Cognitive Neuroscience Society Meeting, San Francisco, California.
The cognitive neuroscience of psychological projection. March 2004, Washington University Department of Psychology Distinguished Speaker Series, St. Louis, Missouri.
How to bridge social psychology and cognitive neuroscience of empathy. March 2004, The University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas.
Neuroimaging investigation of the perception of intentional versus mechanical causation. February 2004, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), Seattle, Washington.
2003
The sense of self and others: From developmental psychology to cognitive neuroscience. September 2003, Brain Mechanisms of Thinking. International Institute for Advanced Studies, Nara, Japan.
Perspective taking as the royal avenue to empathy. September 2003, Other Minds: an Interdisciplinary Conference. Institute of Cognitive and Decision Sciences at the University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon.
Empathy: Uniquely human? September 2003, Third European Summer University (CETSAH – EHESS - CNRS), Nantes, France.
Empathy as mental simulation of the subjectivity of others. June 2003, Autism, Brain and Development, Collège de France, Paris.
Imagining the other doing, thinking and feeling: neural investigations of perspective taking. May 2003, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California.
Imitation as a natural paradigm to investigate shared representations and agency in humans. May 2003, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California.
Why and how our brains are made to imitate: evolutionary, developmental and cognitive neuroscience approaches. January 2003, Kyoto University, Department of Intelligence and Computer Sciences, Kyoto, Japan.
Neuroimaging (fMRI and PET) investigations of imitation and intersubjectivity in humans. January 2003, Neural Network Workshop, Rutsutsu, Japan.
2002
When the self represents the other: A new cognitive neuroscience view of psychological identification. October 2002, Max Plank Institute Symposium on Self and Action, Ohlstadt, Germany.
Shared neural representations between self and other: to what extent are they really common? September 2002, Movement, Action and Consciousness: Towards a Physiology of Intentionality. A Symposium in Honor of Marc Jeannerod. Institute for Cognitive Science, Lyon, France.
The neurophysiology of imitation and intersubjectivity. May 2002, Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Imitation: From Cognitive Science to Social Science, Abbaye de Royaumont, France.
When the self represents the other: Neural investigations of perspective taking. May 2002, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon.
2001
Le sens des autres ou les fondements naturels de la sympathie. October 2001, Université de Tous les Savoirs, Paris, France.
La lecture des intentions d'autrui : apports de la neuro-imagerie. October 2001, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Université Paris 5, Paris, France.
Neural correlates of perspective-taking. September 2001, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois.
A cognitive neuroscience view of perspective-taking. May 2001, Department of Psychology, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois.
Why and how are our brains made to imitate. February 2001, The Lifelong Learning Foundation. Wellcome Department of Cognitive Neurology, London, United Kingdom.
La compréhension des actions d'autrui. anatomie fonctionnelle et théorie de la simulation. January 2001, Empathie et Connaissance d’Autrui, Collège de France, Paris, France.
2000
Evolutionary and neurophysiological approaches to the understanding of human actions. September 2000, Department of Psychology, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois.
Quand voir c’est faire. May 2000, Congrès de Réadaptation Fonctionnelle, Université Laval, Quebec, Canada.
Neuroimaging investigations of action observation and imitation. February 2000, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington.
Les racines biologiques de la mentalisation. January, 2000, Congrès National de Neuropédiatrie, Toulouse, France.
Quel futur pour les méthodes d’imagerie cérébrale? January, 2000, Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle, Grande Gallerie de l’Evolution, Paris, France.
1999
Motor imagery: From evolutionary psychology to cognitive neurosciences. December 1999, Scienza e Riabilitazione, Naples, Italy.
The perception of biological motion: An fMRI study. November 1999, Weizmann Institute, Tel Aviv, Israël.
Voir c’est faire: Apport de l’imagerie cérébrale. October 1999, XIV Congrès National de la Société de Médecine Physique, Angers, France.
Neurophysiological evidence for simulation of action: From evolutionary psychology to cognitive neurosciences. September 1999, Simulation and Understanding of Action, CREA, Ecole Polytechnique, Paris, France.
The perception of action and its neural corelates. September 1999, University of Parma, Department of Medicine, Parma, Italy.
Neuroimaging studies of the masked part of action generation. September 1999, Brain and Consciousness, Lisbon, Portugal.
A PET investigation of the neural substrate involved in the attribution of intention to others. July 1999, Fifth IBRO World Congress of Neurosciences, Jerusalem, Israel.
The perception of actions performed by others: From evolutionary psychology to brain imaging. July 1999, Hadassah Hospital, Department of Nuclear Medicine, Jerusalem, Israel.
Is there such as a functional equivalence between imagined, observed and executed action? March 1999, Max Plank Institute Conference on The Imitative Mind: Development, Evolution and Brain Bases, Seon, Germany.
Neuroimagerie métabolique et psychopathologie: Une aide à l’éthiologie ou à la nosographie. January 1999, Association pour la Recherche Méthodologique en Psychiatrie. Hôpital la Pitié-Salpétrière, Paris, France.
Do perception and action share a common coding level? January 1999, Seventeen European Workshop on Cognitive Neuropsychology, Bressanone, Italy.
1998
La simulation mentale de l'action: Des données empiriques à la neurobiologie cognitive. September 1998, Société de Psychologie Scientifique de Langue Française, Louvain, Belgium.
Neural representation for action. June 1998, Max Plank Institute for Psychological Research, Munich, Germany.
Les images du cerveau: Quel est l’intérêt et quelles sont les limites des techniques de neuroimagerie ? May 1998, Deuxième Colloque International de Neurophilosophie: Le Cerveau et les Images, Lille, France.
The effect of the intention on the brain metabolism during the perception of action. May 1998, The Cognitive Bases of Action, CREA, Paris, France.
Functional imaging in neuropsychology. January 1998, Annual Innsbruck Neuropsychology Conference, Innsbruck, Austria.
1997
Etudes en tomographie par émission de positons chez l’homme sain au cours de la perception d’actions: Quelles implications dans la compréhension de l’apraxie ? December 1997, Société de Neuropsychologie, Paris, France.
The perception of actions. the first stage to intentionality. A cognitive neuroscience perspective. October 1997, Neuroplasticity: Building a Bridge from the Laboratory to the Clinic, IPSEN, Paris.
The perception of actions performed by others: effects of the semantic content and of subjects’ intention. July 1997, Fifth European Congress of Psychology, Dublin, Ireland.
Is PET solely a post-hoc tool to validate psychological models of memory? April 1997, Mémoire: du Neurone à la Cognition, Académie des Sciences, Paris, France.
Imagerie fonctionnelle de la reconnaissance des formes dynamiques. March 1997, Collège de France. Paris, France.
Modulation of brain activity during the observation of actions: PET measurements in human. March 1997, From Synapses and Dopamine to Higher Brain Functions and Schizophrenia, IPSEN, Paris, France.
Les techniques de neuroimagerie appliquées à l’étude de la schizophrénie: Nécessaires mais pas suffisantes! March 1997, Schizophrénie Recherches Actuelles et Perspectives. Centre Hospitalier Universitaire le Vinatier, Lyon, France.
1996
La reconnaissance visuelle des objets: Aspects anatomo-physiologiques par tomographie par émission de positons. January 1996, Société Française de Psychologie, Lyon, France.
1995
Anatomie fonctionnelle des représentations motrices. May 1995, Société des Neurosciences, Lyon, France.
Principes et applications des études d'activations cérébrales par tomographie par émission de positons. May 1995, Société de Circulation et de Métabolisme Cérébral, Lyon, France.
Watching movements - imagining movements. February 1995, Sensorische und Motorische System, Heinrich-Heine-Universität, Düsseldorf, Germany.
1994
Etudes en tomographie par émission de positons de la coordination visuo-motrice. November 1994, Société de Neurophysiologie Clinique, Paris, France.
Do imagined and executed movements share the same central structures? September 1994, Seventeen Annual Meeting of the European Neuroscience Association, Vienna, Austria.
Explorations de la motricité volontaire par tomographie d'émission de positons. September 1994, Société Française de Médecine Physique, Nantes, France.
Mapping motor representations with PET. June 1994, Functional Brain Imaging Meeting, Tel Aviv, Israel.
De l'intention à l'action: Apport des neurosciences cognitives chez l'homme. February 1994, Psychiatrie et Recherche, Collège de France, Paris, France.
1993
Préparation, représentation et exécution du mouvement ont-elles les mêmes bases neuronales? September 1993, Collège de France, Paris, France.
1992
Is the vegetative activation induced by motor representation due to central or peripheral mechanisms? September 1992, Sixth International Congress of Psychophysiology, Berlin, Germany.
Cortical and subcortical structures participating in the preparation phase of a visuomotor task: PET measurements of rCBF. July 1992, Twenty Fifth International Congress of Psychology, Brussels, Belgium.
Neurophysiological basis of motor images. April 1992, Charing Cross and Westminster Medical School, Department of Medicine, London, United Kingdom.
1991
Comparative analysis of graphic movement times. November 1991, Fifth IGS Conference on Motor Control of Handwriting, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona.
Neurobiologie des représentations mentales. October 1991, 33ème Colloque de Psychologie Médicale, Clermont-Ferrand, France.
Brain structures engaged in motor preparation: a PET study with 15-O-Butanol. July 1991, International Brain Research Organization, Third World Congress of Neurosciences, Montréal, Canada.
La Mémoire de l’action. May 1991, Société des Neurosciences, Strasbourg, France.
1990
Autonomic nervous system responses during imagined movement is proportional to mental effort. September 1990, NATO Advanced Study Institute, Calcatoggio, Corsica, France.
Two dimensional maps of the human cortex. September 1990, European Neuroscience Association Meeting, Stockholm, Sweden.
Représentation mentale du mouvement et apprentissage moteur. December 1989, Université Catholique de Louvain, Louvain, Belgium.
1989
Brain structures participating in mental simulation of movement. August 1989, International Society of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism - Brain 89, Bologna, Italy.
The cerebellum participates in cognitive activity: A SPECT study. May 1989, Fourth CBF Nordic Workshop, Faaborg, Denmark.
1988
Brain structures participating in mental simulation of movement: A SPECT study with i.v. 133Xe method. December 1988, Societé de Neurophysiologie Clinique, Ministère de la Santé, Paris, France.
Participation du cervelet dans la représentation mentale du mouvement. December 1988, Société de Neuropsychologie, Hôpital La Pitié Salpétrière, Paris, France.
Brain structures underlying mental simulation of motor behavior: A neurocognitive approach. October 1988, Institute für Physiologie, Freie Universität, Berlin, Germany.
Cognitive-motor processes underlying mental simulation of motor behaviour. October 1988, Karl Marx Universität, Leipzig, Germany.
Regional cerebral blood flow variations during motor and imaginal graphic tasks. August 1988, International Neuropsychological Society, University of Helsinki, Lahti, Finland.
A neuro-cognitive framework to investigate motor imagery. January 1988, Lund University Hospital, Lund, Sweden.
1987
Visualisation de tâches mentales motrices et de mémorisation par des mesures de rCBF avec une gamma-caméra et inhalation de Xénon 133. December 1987, Société de Circulation et Métabolisme Cérébral, Paris, France.
