293 Episodes

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

    Published: 9/19/2014

  2. 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

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

    Published: 9/18/2014

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

    Published: 9/17/2014

  5. Workshop 2014 (11 of 11) | Cristine Legare | Evidence from the Supernatural: Evaluating Ritual Efficacy

    Published: 5/16/2014

  6. Workshop 2014 (10 of 11) | Cristine Legare | Ritual and the Rationality Problem: Old Wine in a New Bottle

    Published: 5/16/2014

  7. Workshop 2014 (9 of 11) | Vernon K. Robbins | Conceptual Blending and Interactive Emergence in Early Christian Writings

    Published: 5/16/2014

  8. Workshop 2014 (8 of 11) | John Dunne | Scientific Research on Meditation and the Cognitive Science of Religion: Anything Shared?

    Published: 5/16/2014

  9. Workshop 2014 (7 of 11) | Cristine Legare | The Coexistence of Natural and Supernatural Explanations across Cultures and Development

    Published: 5/16/2014

  10. Workshop 2014 (6 of 11) | Cristine Legare | The Cognitive Foundations of Cultural Learning

    Published: 5/15/2014

  11. Workshop 2014 (5 of 11) | Greg Berns | Brain Imaging Studies of Sacred Values and Social Norms

    Published: 5/15/2014

  12. Workshop 2014 (4 of 11) | Bradd Shore | Religion and Ritual: A Marriage Made in Heaven

    Published: 5/15/2014

  13. Workshop 2014 (3 of 11) | Robert N. McCauley | The Cognitive Science of Religion: Seminal Findings and New Trends

    Published: 5/15/2014

  14. Workshop 2014 (2 of 11) | E. Thomas Lawson | Obstacles and Opportunities: Reflections on the Origins of the Cognitive Science of Religion

    Published: 5/15/2014

  15. Lecture | Melanie Mitchell | Using Analogy to Discover the Meaning of Images

    Published: 4/9/2014

  16. Public Conversation | Greg Berns, Scott Lilienfeld | Brain Imaging: Sense and Nonsense, Science and Nonscience

    Published: 3/27/2014

  17. Lecture | Steve Cole | Social Regulation of Human Gene Expression

    Published: 3/25/2014

  18. Lecture | Olaf Sporns | Network Architecture of the Human Connectome: Mapping Structural and Functional Connectivity

    Published: 2/24/2014

  19. Lecture | Ralph Savarese | Poetic Potential in Autism: Neurodiversity's Boon

    Published: 2/20/2014

  20. Lunch | Carla Freeman, Kim Wallen | Gender Matters in the Academy?

    Published: 2/19/2014

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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.