Center for Mind, Brain, and Culture

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

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289 Episodes

  1. Film and Lecture Series | Dan Reynolds, Behk Bradley | Afflictions: Culture and Mental Illness in Indonesia -- PANEL DISCUSSION on Cultural Attitudes

    Published: 10/22/2013
  2. Film and Lecture Series | Jim Hoesterey and Bradd Shore | Afflictions: Culture and Mental Illness in Indonesia – PANEL DISCUSSION on Religion and Faith

    Published: 10/22/2013
  3. Lecture | Gabrielle Starr | Feeling Beauty: The Sister Arts and the Neuroscience of Aesthetic Experience

    Published: 9/27/2013
  4. Lunch | Philippe Rochat and Laura Otis | Unsavory Emotions and Their Developmental Roots

    Published: 9/19/2013
  5. Lecture | John Coley | How Do Environment and Experience Shape Intuitive Biological Thought?

    Published: 3/4/2013
  6. Lunch | Robyn Fivush and Chikako Ozawa-de Silva | Narratives, Self-Transformation, and Healing

    Published: 2/26/2013
  7. Lunch | Tanya Luhrmann | Hearing Voices in California, Chennai, and Acra

    Published: 2/19/2013
  8. Lunch | Drew Westen and Alan Abramowitz | Perspectives on the 2012 Election

    Published: 2/12/2013
  9. Lecture | Mark Risjord | Structure, Agency, and Improvisation

    Published: 2/7/2013
  10. Lecture | William E. Cross | Transacting Social Identity and Individuality in Everyday Life: Ethnic and Racial Identity as a Lived Experience

    Published: 11/7/2012
  11. Lecture | Teenie Matlock | Grounding Language in Everyday Embodied Experience

    Published: 10/25/2012
  12. Fairness Conference (15 of 15) | Phillip Wolff | Linguistics of Possession and Sharing Across Cultures

    Published: 10/19/2012
  13. Fairness Conference (14 of 15) | Phillipe Rochat | Sameness Detection and Equity in Children Across Cultures

    Published: 10/19/2012
  14. Fairness Conference (13 of 15) | Monica Capra | Moral Wiggle Room in Economic Experiments

    Published: 10/19/2012
  15. Fairness Conference (12 of 15) | Karen Wynn | Social Judgments in Young Infants: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

    Published: 10/19/2012
  16. Fairness Conference (11 of 15) | Elizabeth Spelke | Fairness and In-group Parochialism in Children

    Published: 10/19/2012
  17. Fairness Conference (10 of 15) | Gustavo Faigenbaum | Three Dimensions of Fairness

    Published: 10/19/2012
  18. Fairness Conference (9 of 15) | Nicolas Baumard | The Evolution of Fairness by Partner Choice

    Published: 10/19/2012
  19. Fairness Conference (8 of 15) | Frans de Waal | First- and Second-Order Inequity Aversion in Primates

    Published: 10/19/2012
  20. Fairness Conference (7 of 15) | Gregory Berns | Fairness and Sacred Values

    Published: 10/18/2012

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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.