Course | Summer School

Summer School Computational Social Cognition 2024

Date

Monday 15 July 2024 - Wednesday 17 July 2024

Address

Birmingham, England

The University of Birmingham in collaboration with Leiden University, will organise a summer school in Computational Social Cognition  

Anna van Duijvenvoorde: 'It is very nice that we have research-based education in addition to education, such as with this Summer School.'

This first edition of the Summer School is the concrete result of a strategic collaboration between Leiden - Birmingham, for example, in master education, such as the master's programme Population Health, which includes Psychology.

Interdisciplinary

This Summer School combines disciplines, bringing together developmental psychology, cognitive psychology and social psychology, as well as techniques such as brain science, behavioral science and cognitive modeling. The Summer School is organised from Leiden (Anna van Duijvenvoorde) and Birmingham (Patricia Lockwood), obviously with a team of Leiden and Birmingham researchers.

'It is an absolute top research group in Birmingham, so I am also very proud of the collaboration.'

Leiden researchers such as Annabel-Losecaat Vermeer (Social, Economic and Organisational Psychology) and Anna van Duijvenvoorde (Developmental and Educational Psychology) are lecturers, in addition to those from Birmingham. Aios/students from Leiden are also admitted after applying, such as Lonneke Elzinga (Developmental and Educational Psychology).

Talks and training

The Summer School will provide talks and training in the latest developments in learning, decision-making and computational modelling with a focus on how these processes are important for social cognition, as well as topics covering theoretical issues in social cognition. There will be up to 70 attendees (from PhD to junior faculty), keynote speakers and instructors.

• Keynote speakers include Wolfram Schultz, Cecilia Heyes and Christian Ruff;
• Instructors include Patricia Lockwood, Matthew Apps, Ili Ma, Lei Zhang, Anna van Duijvenvoorde, Arkady Konovalov, Romy Froemer and Jo Cutler.

By the end of the course, we expect attendees to have a good understanding of computational models of behaviour, best practices and their own scripts to apply such models to their experiments and data.