Mind-reading

When you play paper rock scissors, do you try and second-guess your opponent’s next move? This episode looks at mind-reading, and we also have some baby baboons!  It’s a great time to be a neuroscientist: Computational modelling, multimodal neuroimaging and novel brain stimulation methods are producing fascinating new data. This episode looks at some of the latest research that has made the most of such techniques to reveal how our minds work, and how our brains are structured.  Christian Ruff is a professor of Neuroeconomics and Decision Neuroscience at the University of Zurich; he uncovers how the brain navigates complex social and moral situations. A professor of Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Copenhagen, Victoria Southgate, studies infant social cognition, and is particularly interested in how infants think about the self and the other. Adrien Meguerditchian is a comparative psychologist at the Centre of Research in Psychology and Neuroscience, at the National Centre for Scientific Research, in France. He has worked with wild chimps in Senegal and on brain MRI studies in the United States as part of his goal to understand how communication shapes the brain. For more info, visit: https://europa.eu/!jFbKWc