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SUMMARY:Aspects of competition and cooperation in the genus Pan
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Martin Surbeck\, Asst. Professor\, Dept. of Human Evolutionary Biology\, Harvard University \nThis talk will be presented via Zoom. \nAspects of competition and cooperation in the genus Pan. \nAbstract: I will talk about aspects of competition and cooperation in our closest living relatives\, bonobos and chimpanzees. Firstly\, I will explore how differences in female sexuality and male mate competition potentially contribute to observed species differences. There will be a specific focus on the role of mothers during mate competition in male philopatric species and I will speculate about potential implications for life histories. Secondly\, I will explore aspects of between group competition in bonobos and discuss the implications of the new findings for the emergence of cooperative relationships between groups. \nZoom: https://ucla.zoom.us/j/92826436236?pwd=SytQNTNPSWdwaDNlTm05d2srdXNHUT09 \nMeeting ID: 928 2643 6236 \nPasscode: BEC
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SUMMARY:Laughter and Smiles: Towards understanding the Complexity and Phylogenetic Continuity of Positive Communication in Hominids
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Marina Davila-Ross\, Reader in Comparative Psychology\, University of Portsmouth \nThis talk will be presented via Zoom. \nLaughter and Smiles: Towards understanding the Complexity and Phylogenetic Continuity of Positive Communication in Hominids \nAbstract: Laughter and smiles are arguably the strongest behavioural indicators of positive emotional states in humans and they also represent pervasive tools of social communication\, help to develop and maintain social relationships\, and affect individuals‘ health and wellbeing. It\, thus\, may not come to a surprise that these important behaviours are deeply rooted in human biology. More specifically\, empirical research on hominids suggests that laughter and smiles are evolutionarily continuous\, going back to at least the past 13 million years. As a result\, an in-depth evaluation of laughter and smiles in great apes may provide a better understanding of why humans\, a highly social-cognitive species\, behave the way they do. This talk attempts to reconstruct the evolution of laughter and smiles in great apes and humans by assessing form and function of these expressions in their natural social interactions. Comparative and phylogenetic approaches are applied that include acoustic analyses\, FACS (Facial Action Coding System) specifically designed to study great apes\, and the coding of bodily actions. \nZoom link: https://ucla.zoom.us/j/94813693836?pwd=ZWx5Tnl5UStac0RSZUZCSlFyMTl2UT09 \nZoom Meeting ID: 928 2643 6236 \nPasscode: BEC
URL:https://bec.ucla.edu/event/laughter-and-smiles-towards-understanding-the-complexity-and-phylogenetic-continuity-of-positive-communication-in-hominids/
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SUMMARY:Growing up in a dynamic social world: early-life effects on behavior and neuroendocrine function
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Tessa Solomon-Lane\, Asst. Professor of Biology\, Keck Science Dept.\, Claremont McKenna\, Pitzer & Scripps Colleges \nMore info: https://tessasolomonlane.com/ \nThis speaker will be presenting in person. \nGrowing up in a dynamic social world: early-life effects on behavior and neuroendocrine function  \n Abstract: Why\, and how\, do individuals behave the way they do? Social behavior has long captivated researchers from diverse fields. Social behavior is common to a remarkably wide range of species\, its expression is complex and patterned\, and it has deeply conserved effects on evolutionary fitness and health. Similarly\, the neuroendocrine signaling pathways that regulate social behavior are also evolutionarily ancient. Early-life experiences are a powerful source of individual variation in adult behavior\, yet fundamental questions remain about the development of social behavior and its underlying mechanisms. In my lab\, we use the highly social Burton’s Mouthbrooder cichlid fish (Astatotilapia burtoni)\, a model system in social neuroscience\, to investigate the social\, behavioral\, and neuroendocrine mechanisms regulating the development of social behavior. This species is known for the mixed-sex\, hierarchical communities formed by adults\, in which individuals express social behaviors common across vertebrates\, such as aggression\, affiliation\, courtship\, parenting\, and cooperation. As is the case in primates\, juveniles are social from the earliest life history stage. I will present the results of a series of experiments that demonstrate that juveniles form nuanced\, complex social relationships\, and how early-life social environments sculpt social behavior\, nonapeptide signaling\, and neuroendocrine stress axis function. I will discuss how this work expands our understanding of behavioral development and the origins of individual variation in adult phenotypes\, from fish to humans \nZoom link: https://ucla.zoom.us/j/94813693836?pwd=ZWx5Tnl5UStac0RSZUZCSlFyMTl2UT09 \nZoom Meeting ID: 928 2643 6236 \nPasscode: BEC
URL:https://bec.ucla.edu/event/growing-up-in-a-dynamic-social-world-early-life-effects-on-behavior-and-neuroendocrine-function/
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SUMMARY:The Brain's Crescendo; How Music Training Impacts Child Development
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Assal Habibi\, Assoc. Professor of Psychology\, University of Southern California \nThis speaker will be presenting in person. \nThe Brain’s Crescendo; How Music Training Impacts Child Development  \nAbstract: In an ongoing multi-year longitudinal study\, we have been investigating the effects of a group-based music training program on development of children\, beginning at age 6\, using behavioral\, neuroimaging and electrophysiological measures. The target group of children have been participating in the Youth Orchestra of Los Angeles (YOLA) program. This music program is based on the Venezuelan system of musical training known as El-Sistema and offers free music instruction 6–7 hours weekly to children from underprivileged and under-resourced areas of Los Angeles. The children in the music program have been compared with two groups of children\, one involved in a community-based sports program and another not enrolled in any systematic afterschool training. At the onset\, we established that there were no pre-existing differences among the groups.  Over the course of 5 years\, we have observed that children in the music group had better performance than comparison groups in musically relevant auditory skills (pitch and rhythm discrimination) and showed an accelerated maturity of auditory processing as measured by cortical auditory evoked potentials. We also observed that children in the music group showed a different rate of cortical thickness maturation between the right and left posterior superior temporal gyrus and higher fractional anisotropy in the corpus callosum\, specifically in the crossing pathways connecting superior frontal\, sensory\, and motor segments. For nonmusical skills\, children with music training\, compared with children without music training\, showed stronger neural activation during a cognitive inhibition task in brain regions involved in response inhibition and decision making (bilateral pre-SMA/SMA\, ACC\, IFG). Finally\, we observed that parents of children involved in music training\, after four years\, rated their children higher on the emotional stability personality trait and lower on aggression and on hyperactivity compared to children not involved in music activities despite no differences in these measures before children’s entry into the program. Considering a general reduction in art education specifically in the communities that there is limited access to art exposure in general\, and specifically to music education\, the findings from this study is providing compelling answers to the ongoing discussion about music’s role in the education curriculum. \nZoom: https://ucla.zoom.us/j/92826436236?pwd=SytQNTNPSWdwaDNlTm05d2srdXNHUT09 \nMeeting ID: 928 2643 6236 \nPasscode: BEC
URL:https://bec.ucla.edu/event/the-brains-crescendo-how-music-training-impacts-child-development/
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