Toward an Embodied Science of Intersubjectivity

2011-05-04T07:25:00.000-07:00

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TESIS —Towards an Embodied Science of InterSubjectivity (http://tesis-itn.eu/) is a new Marie Curie Initial Training Network offering research opportunities on the foundations of human sociality. It brings together the complementary expertise of 13 European research institutes, clinical centres and private sector partners that span the biomedical sciences and the humanities.

It will advance our understanding of human intersubjectivity based on the following research and training objectives:

1. To investigate the neural underpinnings of affective exchange with others, of shared action spaces and joint object relations, endorsing a novel interactive embodied neuroscience;
2. To investigate the development of social skills in infants in the context of the awareness of others during interaction, yielding an interactive concept of embodied social cognition;
3. To investigate the inter-subjective factors affecting psychopathologies, especially schizophrenia, autism and somatoform disorders and to draw implications for treatment;
4. To investigate in toddlers and young children the understanding of toys, objects and cultural artefacts and the links between materiality and sociality;
5. To investigate cultural interactive patterns and shared practices such as group learning, playing, teamwork, distributed cognition, creating applied knowledge for education, management, and organizational development.

We are now calling for applications for 17 positions from bright, highly motivated graduates coming from the neurosciences, neuropsychiatry, philosophy or psychology and interested in empirical and conceptual research.

Selves and Others

Toward an Embodied Science of Intersubjectivity