Welcome to the Social Mind and Body Group's website
As a public health precaution due to coronavirus, all CEU buildings including the Somby Lab are temporarily closed. Due to the rapidly changing nature of the situation, we are not announcing a re-opening date at this time and will provide updates later on our website. We are also preparing to conduct online studies which will be announced soon through the Sona system.
The Social Mind and Body group (SOMBY), led by Natalie Sebanz and Günther Knoblich, investigates the perceptual, cognitive, and motor processes that underlie social cognition and social interaction. Our take is that individual minds are geared towards understanding others and interacting with others. This is why we study perception, cognition, and action in social context. As a tribute to good old solitary thinking we also study the processes underlying insight in problem solving.
Joint planning, coordination, and commitment
Communication and teaching in joint action
Joint attention, perspective taking, and mindreading
Self and other in perception and action
Funding
2014-2019 ERC Consolidator grant Joint action expertise: behavioral, cognitive, and neural mechanisms for joint action learning (JAXPERTISE) led by Natalie Sebanz
2015-2020 ERC Synergy grant Constructing social minds: Coordination, communication, and cultural transmission (SOMICS) led by Günther Knoblich
2016-2021 ERC Starting Grant The Sense of Commitment: An Integrative Framework for Modeling the Sense of Commitment (SENSE OF COMMITMENT) led by John Michael
News
SOMBY Lab is temporarily closed due to COVID-19
As a public health precaution due to coronavirus, all CEU buildings including the Somby Lab are temporarily closed. Due to the rapidly chaning nature of the situation, we are not announcing a re-opening date at this time and will provide updates later on our website.
The Boundaries of Mind Workshop - 13th Nov, Vienna
Much recent thinking about the mind and the brain in psychology, philosophy and neuroscience has been preoccupied with questions about boundaries — including those between mind and world, between individual agents, between mind and the rest of the body, between the neural and the psychological, and b
Lab Manager position open
The SOMBY Lab is looking for a lab manager. If you are interested, please click here.
Professor Natalie Sebanz was appointed to be member of the Board of Directors of the Association for Psychological Science
Natalie will serve as the Secretary of the Association. APS is the leading international organization dedicated to advancing scientific psychology across disciplinary and geographic borders.
JAM 8 will be held in July 10-13 2019 at Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Genova, Italy
We invite you to attend the 8th bi-annual Joint Action Meeting (JAM) which brings together cognitive scientists and researchers from related disciplines studying individuals’ ability to act together.
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