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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Lecture | Simone Shamay-Tsoory | The Empathic Brain: The Neural Underpinning of Human Empathy
Published: 11/3/2021 -
Lecture (co-sponsored) | Philip Ewell | White Stories, Black Histories, and Desegregating the Music Curriculum
Published: 10/19/2021 -
Lecture | Chikako Ozawa-de Silva | The Anatomy of Loneliness
Published: 9/16/2021 -
Lecture | Zohar Eitan | Space Oddity: Musical Syntax Is Mapped onto Visual Space
Published: 9/14/2021 -
"Inside the Lab" | Stephanie Koziej interviewed by Dietrich Stout
Published: 9/10/2021 -
"Inside the Lab" | Chikako Ozawa de-Silva interviewed by Dietrich Stout
Published: 9/10/2021 -
Lecture | Ken Carter | The Psychology of Thrill Seekers
Published: 4/20/2021 -
Lecture | Edouard Machery | Religion and the Scope of Morality
Published: 4/7/2021 -
Lecture Panel Discussion | Daphna Joel | Beyond the Binary: Rethinking Sex and the Brain" plus Panel Discussion
Published: 4/6/2021 -
Lecture | Andy Clark | Computational Psychiatry and the Construction of Human Experience
Published: 3/23/2021 -
"Inside the Lab" | Jinho Choi interviewed by Lynne Nygaard
Published: 2/26/2021 -
"Inside the Lab" | Benjamin Wilson interviewed by Dietrich Stout
Published: 2/26/2021 -
Lunch | Lisa Dillman | Translation and Subjectivity
Published: 10/28/2020 -
Lecture | Dan Weiskopf | The Myth of Natural Categories: Representing and Coordinating Ethnobiological Knowledge
Published: 10/15/2020 -
Lecture | Alex Bentley | The Acceleration of Cultural Evolution
Published: 10/8/2020 -
Lecture | Randy Engle | Ability to control attention: The secret sauce in the relationship between working knowledge and fluid intelligence.
Published: 9/29/2020 -
Discussion Group | Slow Science: Trends in Cognitive Science a paper by Uta Frith
Published: 9/16/2020 -
"Inside the Lab" | Ken Carter interviewed by Lynne Nygaard
Published: 8/28/2020 -
"Inside the Lab" | Lauren Klein interviewed by Lynne Nygaard
Published: 8/28/2020 -
"Inside the Lab" | John Lindo interviewed by Dietrich Stout
Published: 8/28/2020
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.