Center for Mind, Brain, and Culture

A podcast by Emory College, Emory Center for Mind, Brain and Culture (CMBC)

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Education Society & Culture

289 Episodes

  1. Lecture | Daniel Lende | Neuroanthropology and the Biocultural Approach: Understanding Human Brain Variation in the Wild

    Published: 11/13/2014

  2. Lunch | Daniel Saliers and Richard Patterson | Thinking Musical Thoughts

    Published: 10/16/2014

  3. Lecture | Brad Cooke | Male and Female Brains: A Distinction that Makes a Difference

    Published: 10/10/2014

  4. Lecture | Daniel Schacter | The Seven Sins of Memory:  An Update

    Published: 9/29/2014

  5. Lecture | Luke Hyde |Using Developmental Neurogenetics to Understand Psychopathology: Examples from Youth Antisocial Behavior

    Published: 9/24/2014

  6. The Social Mind Conference (13 of 13) | Frans de Waal | From Chimpanzee Politics to Primate Empathy: A Career

    Published: 9/19/2014

  7. The Social Mind Conference (12 of 12)| Jan Van Hooff | Introduction to Frans B.M. de Waal (The Social Mind: A Festschrift Symposium Honoring Prof. Frans B. M. de Waal)

    Published: 9/19/2014

  8. The Social Mind Conference (11 of 13) | Sarah Brosnan | That’s Not Fair! What Cucumber-Throwing Capuchins Tell Us about the Evolution of Fairness

    Published: 9/19/2014

  9. The Social Mind Conference (10 of 13) | Stephanie Preston | A "Good Natured" Biological and Historical Evolution of Empathy

    Published: 9/19/2014

  10. The Social Mind Conference (9 of 13) | Pier Francesco Ferrari | The Evolution of Mind and What Neuroscience Can Tell Us about It

    Published: 9/19/2014

  11. The Social Mind Conference (8 of 13) | Josh Plotnik | A Primate’s Festschrift: Pant Grunts, Elephant Noses, and Frans

    Published: 9/19/2014

  12. The Social Mind Conference (7 of 13) | Robert Frank | Frans de Waal: Economic Naturalist

    Published: 9/19/2014

  13. The Social Mind Conference (6 of 13) | Susan Perry | The Social Mind of Wild Capuchins

    Published: 9/19/2014

  14. The Social Mind Conference (5 of 13) | Melanie Killen | How Frans de Waal Changed the Field: The Origins and Development of Morality

    Published: 9/19/2014

  15. The Social Mind Conference (4 of 13) | Lisa Parr | My Journey into Face Space: Graduate School and Beyond

    Published: 9/19/2014

  16. The Social Mind Conference (3 of 13) | Harry Kunneman | Science, Morality and Epistemology: Frans De Waal’s Visionary Quest

    Published: 9/19/2014

  17. The Social Mind Conference (2 of 13) | Karen Strier | Exceptional Primates and the Insights that Change a Field

    Published: 9/19/2014

  18. The Social Mind Conference (1 of 13) | Harold Gouzoules | From Darwin to de Waal: A Brief History of Animal Behavior Research

    Published: 9/19/2014

  19. Lunch | Marshall Duke and Dan Reynolds | From Rambo to Rushdie via Linklater and Lavant:  Our Peanut Butter Cup Runneth Over

    Published: 9/18/2014

  20. Lecture | Eddy Nahmias | I’m Glad ‘My Brain Made Me Do It’:  Free Will as a Neuropsychological Success Story

    Published: 9/17/2014

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What is the nature of the human mind? The Emory Center for Mind, Brain, and Culture (CMBC) brings together scholars and researchers from diverse fields and perspectives to seek new answers to this fundamental question. Neuroscientists, cognitive psychologists, biological and cultural anthropologists, sociologists, geneticists, behavioral scientists, computer scientists, linguists, philosophers, artists, writers, and historians all pursue an understanding of the human mind, but institutional isolation, the lack of a shared vocabulary, and other communication barriers present obstacles to realizing the potential for interdisciplinary synthesis, synergy, and innovation. It is our mission to support and foster discussion, scholarship, training, and collaboration across diverse disciplines to promote research at the intersection of mind, brain, and culture. What brain mechanisms underlie cognition, emotion, and intelligence and how did these abilities evolve? How do our core mental abilities shape the expression of culture and how is the mind and brain in turn shaped by social and cultural innovations? Such questions demand an interdisciplinary approach. Great progress has been made in understanding the neurophysiological basis of mental states; positioning this understanding in the broader context of human experience, culture, diversity, and evolution is an exciting challenge for the future. By bringing together scholars and researchers from diverse fields and across the college, university, area institutions, and beyond, the Center for Mind, Brain, and Culture (CMBC) seeks to build on and expand our current understanding to explore how a deeper appreciation of diversity, difference, context, and change can inform understanding of mind, brain, and behavior. In order to promote intellectual exchange and discussion across disciplines, the CMBC hosts diverse programming, including lectures by scholars conducting cutting-edge cross-disciplinary research, symposia and conferences on targeted innovative themes, lunch discussions to foster collaboration across fields, and public conversations to extend our reach to the greater Atlanta community. Through our CMBC Graduate Certificate Program, we are training the next generation of interdisciplinary scholars to continue this mission.