Julia Sliwa, a CNRS researcher at the CIM Brain Institute, received the Society for Neuroscience’s Peter and Patricia Gruber International Award for her research.
The Gruber Foundation presented the Peter and Patricia Gruber International Research Award to Dr. Julia Sliwa, CNRS Research Fellow at the ICM Brain Institute, and Dr. Antonio Fernandez-Ruiz of New York University. The award will be presented on October 20 at the Society for Neuroscience (SfN) International Conference in Chicago.
This award recognizes two young neuroscientists for their outstanding work in an international context.
This award goes to Dr. Sliwa for her work between 2012 and 2018 at New York’s Rockefeller University in Professor Freiwald’s laboratory. Dr. Julia Sliwa discovered areas of the brain in primates that are modulated by social interactions, which correspond to parts of the brain that support the highest forms of human social cognition: the ability to assess the mental state of others. She has also shown how social interactions modulate brain areas dedicated to face perception and has proposed a new interpretation of the "mirror system network" involved in imitative learning, which includes circuits recruited by social and non-social signals.
Julia Sliwa uses functional MRI, neurophysiological recordings and cross-species comparisons. His work today focuses on our neural representations of social concepts and the understanding of gestures during social learning in physiological conditions and neurological disorders.
