1. Generate knowledge

2. Make social neuroscience accessible

3. Introduce knowledge actively and interactively

1. Generate knowledge

This objective is developed in three different ways:

1.a. Organization of high level international meetings of top class scientists for the debate of the very latest issues corresponding to Social Neuroscience. For instance, issues related to the neurobiological factors shaping ethnic boundaries among groups, the neuronal itineraries explaining who, why and when we feel empathy, the cognitive and affective vectors conditioning moral judgments, or the adaptive functions associated to religious beliefs, among many other topics.

1.b. Transdisciplinary debates on matters of social interest. The “Social Brain” Chair will organize activities that promote transdisciplinary debates between humanities and science in order to promote enriching dialogues around a specific and current social context. 

1.c. To promote new lines of research. The chair will promote the setting up of new research projects that are principally of relevance to the field of neuroimaging and the most topical areas of social neuroscience. The research will be carried out at the Cognitive Neuroscience Research Unit (URNC). This unit’s main lines of study are:

1. To adopt recent neuroimaging techniques in the research of mental and neurological disorders in patients with attention problems or hyperactivity, obsessive-compulsive disorders and anxiety disorders.
   
   
2. To discover the mechanisms underlying normal, i.e. non-pathological, cognitive functions.

2. To make social neuroscience accessible
This second objective will also be developed in three basic ways:

2.a. To publish the contributions made by international meetings.

2.b. To distribute content concerning any of the chair’s other activities via the website, articles and appearances in the media.

2.c. To organize conferences involving relevant figures from the international scene.

3.Introduce knowledge actively and interactively
The chair plans to organize activities that are specially designed to introduce neuroscience to the general public in an efficient and entertaining way.