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 | Lauren Harris | We Speak with the Left Hemisphere: The Story of Paul Broca’s Discovery that Changed Our Understanding of the Human Brain

    Published: 2/14/2012

  2. Lecture | Barbara Maria Stafford | SlowLooking: What Visual Art Tells Us about Selective Attention

    Published: 2/2/2012

  3. Lecture | Todd Preuss | Humans and Other Animals: A Modern Darwinian Understanding of 'Man's Place in Nature'

    Published: 11/3/2011

  4. Lecture | Susan A. Nolan | Eye of the Beholder: Gender and Perceptions of Mentoring in Science Education Globally

    Published: 10/27/2011

  5. Lunch | Dierdre Reber and Jocelyne Bachevalier | Cultural and Neuroscientific Perspectives on Emotion

    Published: 10/18/2011

  6. Lecture | Nancy Nersessian | Building Cognition: Conceptual Innovation on the Frontiers of Science

    Published: 9/27/2011

  7. Lunch | Robert McCauley and Susan Tamasi | What Is Language?

    Published: 9/22/2011

  8. Brain Evolution Workshop (6 of 6) | Craig Hadley | What's Human about the Human Brain? Exploring Evolutionary Specializations of the Human Brain

    Published: 5/26/2011

  9. Brain Evolution Workshop 2011 (5 of 6) | Dietrich Stout |Technology and Cognitive Evolution | Human Brain Workshop

    Published: 5/26/2011

  10. Brain Evolution Workshop 2011 (4 of 6) | Dietrich Stout | Archaeological and Paleontological Record of Human Cognitive Evolution | Human Brain Workshop

    Published: 5/26/2011

  11. Brain Evolution Workshop 2011 (3 of 6) | Jim Rilling | Structural Brain Imaging Methods | Human Brain Workshop

    Published: 5/25/2011

  12. Brain Evolution Workshop 2011 (2 of 6) | Todd Preuss | Fundamentals of Evolutionary Neuroscience | Human Brain Workshop

    Published: 5/25/2011

  13. Brain Evolution Workshop 2011 (1 of 6) | Todd Preuss | Introduction and History of Study of Brain Evolution | Human Brain Workshop

    Published: 5/25/2011

  14. Lecutre | Konrad Talmont-Kaminsky | Epistemic Vigilance, Reasoning, and Religion

    Published: 3/23/2011

  15. Lunch | Deboleena Roy and Kim Wallen | What Does the Brain Have to Do with Sex and Gender

    Published: 3/1/2011

  16. Public Conversation | Darryl Neill, Ursula Goldenbaum | Zombiehood: Is It Inevitable?

    Published: 2/22/2011

  17. Lunch | Stella Lourenco, Leslie Taylor | How Humans Understand Space

    Published: 10/27/2010

  18. Lunch | Bradd Shore and Philippe Rochat | Origins of Human Sociality

    Published: 10/8/2010

  19. Lunch | Larry Barsalou and John Dunne | Mind and Brain from the Perspective of Buddhism and Western Science

    Published: 9/22/2010

  20. Lunch | John Johnston and Sidney Perkowitz | Can Machines Be Intelligent?

    Published: 3/17/2010

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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.