 What is social cognition? Well social cognition put in a nutshell is probably exactly the bundle of cognitive capacities that make us human. So namely the capacities to be able to read out mental states of other persons to feel and develop ideas in which particular mental states other persons are and briefly to mentalize. So to be able to understand the mental states of other persons. And non-verbal communication cues for instance play a considerably important role there. So eyebrow flash for instance, gaze behavior, mimic behavior and all these different kind of signals are extremely important that may lead us. And then help us to find out whether this person I'm talking to is a potential partner for myself, a potential collaborator in business for instance or potential friend with whom it would be worth going together for a period of my life for instance. And why is this relevant for you as a psychiatrist? Well social cognition disturbances are probably at the heart of many psychiatry disturbances and one of the model diseases we are currently working quite a lot on is obviously autism. So persons who are not able to fully mentalize and fully understand at a glance if you wish intuitively what other persons think and feel. Although especially highly intelligent autistic subjects of course are able to infer on the basis of certain rules what other persons are thinking and feeling but they don't do it intuitively. And there are other diagnostic groups like schizophrenia for instance where social cognition is extremely important understanding of mimic and gestural behavior of other persons and also different sorts of personality disorders where social cognition might be extremely informative. Do we know anything about the role the brain plays in problems in social cognition? Oh yes we do quite know quite a lot about it so it seems as if there are two different functional systems at play and the one is usually called the so called mentalizing system or theory of mind system or social neural network essentially comprising the media prefrontal cortex, temporal parietal junction, medial parietal cortical areas and potentially also the amygdala. On the other hand side we have the so called mirror neuron system so which is probably much more famous and much more popular that comprises superior parietal regions on the convexity of the brain and premotor regions. And it seems to me that the mirror neuron system is probably more comparably early processing stage that is responsible for the detection of potentially socially salient information whereas the social neural network is comparably more or later stage of processing social information that is relevant more for the evaluation of socially relevant information. Is it possible to treat problems in social cognition? Yeah it's definitely possible to treat social deficits. One of the key elements there is obviously psychotherapy, psychosocial support so this field is extremely important for schizophrenia, personality disorders but also for autism. So we can enrich the repertoire of different behavioural styles and rules how to behave in formal interviews for instance and also in autistic subjects and Kyle can try to improve that. On the other hand side there are also attempts to enrich our pharmacology. For instance oxytocin is one of the candidates there but it's still a long way to go before we can really think of using that in our clinical practice. You have been advocating second person neuroscience as a method to study these things. What is that? Well second person neuroscience or two person neuroscience of the study of dietic interaction simply means that communication and interaction means two persons and this is trivial in a sense but this insight has been lost over many years now in cognitive neuroscience. So cognitive neuroscience has brought out social neuroscience as a new or social cognitive neuroscience as a small little sub-discipline but it has by far neglected the second person you need in order to communicate like the two of us are communicating at the moment and the second person that you need for interaction. And so second person neuroscience or two person neuroscience simply emphasises the point that you need two different persons and that it's not sufficient to look only at one particular brain but to use the phrase of Chris Writh that you have to close the loop in order to have the second person as well incorporated and integrated into this study design. Thank you.