Schedule
Scientific Program
May 10-12, 2013
Friday, May 10, 2013
Heritage Ballroom, Hilton Orrington
2:00-5:00pm Registration
4:00-5:00pm Poster Session I
5:00-8:30pm Opening Session and Dinner
Population Mental Health Disparities and Global Mental Health
Crossing borders for mental health: Global cooperation in research
Dr. Pamela Collins, NIMH Office on Research on Disparities and Global Mental Health
Cultural influences on socio-emotional neurodevelopment: Searching for clues to common mental disorders
Prof. Joanna Asia Maselko, Duke University
The role of culture in prevalence of mental disorders among Asian and Asian American populations
Prof. Lawrence Yang, Columbia University
Linking social determinants to health: Can cultural neuroscience do the job?
Prof. Kevin Wu, National Taiwan University
Saturday, May 11, 2013
Harris Hall 107, Northwestern University and Heritage Ballroom, Hilton Orrington
7:30-8:00am Breakfast in Harris Hall
8:00-10:20am Conceptual and Methodological Issues in Cultural Neuroscience
Galton’s problem: The network autocorrelation approach to cross-cultural research
Prof. Malcolm Dow, Northwestern University
Cross-cultural neuroimaging: From acquisition to analysis
Prof. Todd Parrish, Northwestern University
Cultural neuropsychology
Prof. Xavier Cagigas, UCLA
Exploring the computational mechanisms of dynamic cultural phenomena
Prof. George Christopoulus, Nanyang Business School
How is cultural context-dependence encoded into the brain’s neural activity?: A fruitful marriage between cultural neuroscience and neurophilosophy
Prof. Georg Northoff, University of Ottowa
10:20-10:30am Coffee Break
10:30-12:30pm Cultural Neuroscience of Emotion and Motivation
Cultural effects of the dopamine transporter gene (DRD4): Norm acquisition and emotional match
Prof. Shinobu Kitayama, University of Michigan
Embodied brains, social minds: Neurobiological correlates of experiencing emotions in Beijing and Los Angeles
Prof. Mary-Helen Immordino-Yang, University of Southern California
Genes, brain and culture through a 5-HTT lens
Prof. Michio Nomura, Kyoto University
Cultural values modulate emotional processing in the amygdala
Prof. Tetsuya Iidaka, Nagoya University
12:30-1:15pm ICNC Student Travel Award Recognition and Lunch
1:15-3:15pm Cultural Neuroscience of Cognition
Neural basis of cross-cultural differences in reading and math
Prof. James Booth, Northwestern University
Cross-cultural differences in memory
Prof. Angela Gutchess, Brandeis University
Cross-cultural understanding of dementia: Exploring wellness in an at-risk First Nation community
Lindsey Bruce and Prof. Judy Illes, University of British Columbia
Quantifying culture: The cultural distance hypothesis of melodic
expectancy
Prof. Steven Demorest and Prof. Steven Morrison, University of Washington
3:15-3:30pm Coffee Break
3:30-5:30pm Cultural Neuroscience of Social Cognition
Cultural neuroscience studies of the self
Prof. Shihui Han, Peking University
Identifying a cultural resource: Neural mechanisms of underlying familial influence on risk taking among Mexican-Origin Adolescents
Prof. Eva Telzer, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Economic and moral decision-making following damage to the basolateral amygdala: A South African expedition
Prof. Jack van Honk and Dan Stein, University of Cape Town
Cultural differences in body language
Prof. Beatrice de Gelder, Tilburg University
5:30-6:30pm Transport to Heritage Ballroom, Hilton Orrington and Break
6:30-7:30pm Poster Session II
7:30-8:30pm Evening Lecture and Dinner
Brain and Culture - The Mutual Bootstrap
Prof. Robert Turner, Max Planck Institute for Neurophysics
Sunday, May 12, 2013
Cohen Commons in Tech Institute, Northwestern University
7:30-8:00am Breakfast in Cohen Commons
8:00-10:00am Cultural Neuroscience of Intergroup Processes
How next generation technologies can facilitate comparison across cultural contexts and species: Implications for global health
Prof. Lasana Harris, Duke University
Gene x environment interactions on intergroup bias
Dr. Bobby Cheon, Nanyang Technological University
Elucidating the neural mechanisms of cultural learning biases
Dr. Elizabeth Losin, University of Colorado Boulder
Dynamic cultural neuroscience
Prof. Ying-yi Hong, Nanyang Technological University
10:00-10:15am Coffee Break
10:15-12:45pm Culture and Genetics
Gene-culture interaction and psychological well-being
Prof. Heejung Kim, University of California, Santa Barbara
Bringing gene-environment interactions into the lab: Religion priming differentially increases prosocial behavior among variants of dopamine D4 receptor (DRD4) gene
Prof. Joni Sasaki, York University
Epigenetic variability in oxytocin receptor gene (OXTR) is associated with neural endophenotypes of social perception
Prof. Jamie Morris, University of Virginia
The dynamic regulation of gene expression
Prof. Turhan Canli, SUNY Stony Brook
The enculturated genome: Molecular evidence for recent divergent evolution in human neurotransmitter genes
Prof. Chuansheng Chen, University of California, Irvine
12:45-1:15pm Workshop Groups and Lunch
1:15-2:45pm Enhancing the culture in cultural neuroscience: Anthropological perspectives
Locating culture in the brain and in the world: From social categories to the ecology of mind
Prof. Rebecca Seligman, Northwestern University
Human health, development, and the evolution of the culture-ready brain
Dr. Charles Whitehead, Socialmirrors.org
Cultural neuroscience and the social determinants of mental health
Prof. Laurence Kirmayer, McGill University
2:45-3:00pm Coffee Break
3:00-4:00pm NIH Funding Opportunities in Culture, Health, and Well-being
Dr. Bill Elwood (NIH Oppnet) and Dr. Pamela Collins (NIH Office of Disparities and Global Mental Health)
