Kevin Pelphrey on the Charlie Rose Show

Longtime friend, mentor and collaborator Kevin Pelphrey was recently featured on the Charlie Rose show. Kevin discusses the social brain with Eric Kandel, Giacomo Rizzolatti, Gerald Fischbach, and Cornelia Bargmann.

UVA SNL Idol is Charlottesville's Idol

This past Thursday, the fine folks of C-Ville learned what we in the Social Neuroscience Lab already knew - Lab coordinator Meghan Cronk is a rock star!! Meghan easily won Charlottesville Idol - A 6 week contest to find the areas best singer/performer. The competition wasn't even close. Meghan's prize included 500 dollars in cash as well as some concert tickets and a visit on a local radio station. You can hear that appearance here http://podcast.1061thecorner.com/wcnr/2072256.mp3. These prizes were far better than the Rick James Greatest Hits CD that was won in a preliminary round. This same CD is still haunting the lab.

David Brooks on Social Neuroscience

David Brooks discusses his thoughts on the recent Social and Affective Neuroscience meeting in New York City.

Kaitlyn Booske and Holly Earls join the lab

The UVA Social Neuroscience Laboratory welcomed its first two "primary" graduate student members of the lab for the Fall semester. Kaitlyn has joined the social area as a 1st year graduate student. She comes to us after graduating from Northwestern University with a degree in psychology. Holly is a 2nd year student in the cognitive area. She came to UVA after earning a masters degree in psychology at the University of North Carolina Wilmington.

Individual Differences Predict How People Look at Faces

http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0005952

Launch of the UVA Social Neuroscience Laboratory

On June 1, the Social Neuroscience Laboratory at the University of Virginia became operational. Zoe Englander (pictured on the right) from Duke University joined the lab as a systems engineer and Meghan Cronk (pictured on the left) from the University of Colorado joined the lab as a lab coordinator. During the first week of June, the lab took delivery of a new Active 2 Biosemi EEG/ERP acquisition system. Jamie served as the first subject. The computers in the lab have been set-up with all software necessary for analysis and we have collected data from our first fMRI test subject.