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Ph.D Title: "Neuroimaging study of neural correlates of motivated social interaction” Keywords: social neuroscience ; affective neuroscience ; social context of affiliation ; empathy ; motivation Summary: Two important areas in cognitive neuroscience have developed exponentially for the last 15 years: (i) the affective neuroscience that focuses on the study of brain processes involved in the processing of emotional information and psychological processes associated, and (ii) social neuroscience that focuses on the study of the role of the brain in social relations and the psychological processes involved. These two fields converge on the issue of psychological and neural processing of emotional information expressed by congeners. In most social relations, we can consider a motivational component of inter-attraction. It is therefore possible to understand the psychological and brain processes involved in various working models, made of different functional contexts of inter-attraction. Ongoing work in our laboratory includes the study of these mechanisms through two functional contexts: empathy for pain and sexual motivation. These studies are mainly focused on the knowledge of generalizable cerebral and psychological processes involvedin these contexts, as well as the determinants modulating the responses (familiarity, social class etc.). The thesis project aims to understand the neural mechanisms involved by conducting experiments using two functional neuroimaging techniques: on the one hand, high-density electroencephalography characterized by high temporal resolution, and on the other hand, functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging characterized by a high spatial resolution. In a second step, these techniques will be coupled in a single experimental phase to access to the indices of correlations between these two types of signals. The central research question of the project will be to determine the variation of the neural correlates of both functional contexts of affiliation mentioned above, according to the social determinants of the congeners that interact. Required qualification / Experience: - Interest in social and affective neuroscience - Experience in functional neuroimaging methodology: design of experimental paradigms (E-Prime); - fMRI and / or EEG data collection ; fMRI and / or EEG analysis (SPM ; BrainVision Analyzer2 ; Matlab ...) Location : Laboratoire de Neurosciences Fonctionnelles et Pathologies, Amiens, France. Contact information: Dr Harold Mouras, [log in to unmask] -- Harold Mouras Maître de Conférences en Neuroscience Editeur "Socioaffective Neuroscience & Psychology" ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Laboratoire de Neurosciences Fonctionnelles et Pathologies Faculté de médecine 3, rue des Louvels 80036 Amiens, France Téléphone: +33 9 50 48 30 10 [log in to unmask] In french: Website personnal page / Lab page (Amiens) / Lab page (Lille) In english: Website personnal page / Lab page (Amiens) / Lab page (Lille) -------------------------------------------------------------------------