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
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Fairness Conference (6 of 15) | James Rilling | The Neurobiology of Fairness
Published: 10/18/2012 -
Fairness Conference (5 of 15) | President Jimmy Carter | Fairness and Equity in Politics and Human Affairs
Published: 10/18/2012 -
Fairness Conference (4 of 15) | Edward Queen | Fairness: Subjective or Objective, Envy or Equity
Published: 10/18/2012 -
Fairness Conference (3 of 15) | Michael Sullivan | Fairness, Philosophy, and Legal Pragmatism
Published: 10/18/2012 -
Fairness Conference (2 of 15) | Bradd Shore | Fair Trade in Pacific Exchange Ritual?
Published: 10/18/2012 -
Fairness Conference (1 of 15) | Jerome Bruner | The Ambiguities of Fairness
Published: 10/18/2012 -
Lecture | Maria Kozhevnikov | Individual Differences In Object Vs Spatial Imagery: From Neural Correlates To Real Life Applications
Published: 10/10/2012 -
Lecture | Frans de Waal, Dietrich Stout | Human and Non-Human Primate Evolution: In Honor of the CMBC’s 5th Anniversary
Published: 9/29/2012 -
Lecture | David H. Rakison | Mechanisms of Infant Learning: Evolution’s Solution to Adaptive Problems
Published: 9/24/2012 -
Lecture | George Graham | Mental Disorder, Brain Disorder and Therapeutic Intervention
Published: 9/20/2012 -
Lunch | Krish Sathian and Laura Otis | Images in the Mind
Published: 9/14/2012 -
Public Conversation | Frans de Waal, Harold Gouzoules | Are Humans the Only Linguistic Species?
Published: 3/27/2012 -
Metaphors Conference (5 of 5) | Laura Otis, Krish Sathian | Metaphors and the Mind Panel Discussion
Published: 3/8/2012 -
Metaphors Conference (4 of 5) | David Kemmerer | Time Is Space: The Neuropsychology of an Everyday Metaphor
Published: 3/8/2012 -
Metaphors Conference (3 of 5) | Joseph Skibell | Head in the Wrong Direction
Published: 3/8/2012 -
Metaphors Conference (2 of 5 | Anjan Chatterjee | The Neuroscience of Relational Thinking
Published: 3/8/2012 -
Metaphors Conference (1 of 5) | Jim Grimsley | Silence Being Golden
Published: 3/8/2012 -
Lunch | Salman Rushdie | Narrative: Films and Texts
Published: 3/1/2012 -
Lecture | Clare Porac | The Continuing Enigma of Left-Handedness
Published: 2/28/2012 -
Lunch | Evelyne Ender | Handwriting: The Brain, the Hand, the Eye, the Ear
Published: 2/24/2012
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.