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. "Inside the Lab" | John Lindo interviewed by Dietrich Stout

    Published: 8/28/2020

  2. "Inside the Lab" | Mel Konner interviewed by Lynne Nygaard

    Published: 5/13/2020

  3. "Inside the Lab" | Daniel Dilks interviewed by Lynne Nygaard

    Published: 5/13/2020

  4. "Inside the Lab" | Marcela Benitez interviewed by Dietrich Stout

    Published: 5/13/2020

  5. Lunch | Lisa Paulsen, Caitlin Hargraves, Susan Tamasi | The Performance of Language: Exploring the Intersection of Language, Mind, Emotion, and Theater

    Published: 3/5/2020

  6. Lecture | Jennifer Groh | Hearing in a World of Light: Computations for Communicating Across the Senses

    Published: 11/19/2019

  7. Lunch | Dan Reynolds and Stella Lourenco | Active Perception in Cinema and Video Games

    Published: 11/13/2019

  8. Mini-Conference (3 of 3) | Susan Healy | Building, Making, Creating: From Etymology to Behaviour and Intelligence

    Published: 11/4/2019

  9. Mini Conference (2 of 3) | Michael Arbib | The Aboutness of Language and the Evolution of the Construction-Ready Brain

    Published: 11/4/2019

  10. Mini-Conference (1 of 3) | Dorothy Fragaszy | A Biological Theory of Tooling

    Published: 11/4/2019

  11. Lunch | Fiona Cross | Spider Cognition: Insights from Miniature Brains

    Published: 10/9/2019

  12. Lecture | Lawrence Zbikowski | Music and the Language of Emotions

    Published: 9/24/2019

  13. Lecture | Maria Kozhevnikov | Do Enhanced Cognitive States Exist: Boosting Cognitive Capacities through Adrenaline Rush Activities

    Published: 9/9/2019

  14. Workshop 2019 (6 of 6) | Marieke van Vugt | From Tibetan monks to dancers and back: trying to understand the role of inter-brain synchrony in human connection

    Published: 5/31/2019

  15. Workshop 2019 (5 of 6) | Lena Ting | Sensorimotor control of balance: From flamingos to dancers

    Published: 5/31/2019

  16. Workshop 2019 (4 of 6) | Audrey Duarte | How measuring the sleeping brain at home can help us understand aging and Alzheimer’s disease

    Published: 5/31/2019

  17. Workshop 2019 (3 of 6) | Karen Rommelfanger | Challenges in digital phenotyping: Predicting brain health with phones, social media, and beyond

    Published: 5/30/2019

  18. Workshop 2019 (2 of 6) | Kathy Trang | Coloring perception: Neurocognitive predictors of real-time mental health vulnerability among highly traumatized men

    Published: 5/30/2019

  19. Workshop 2019 (1 of 6) | Suzanne Dikker | Brains in harmony: Connecting art, neuroscience and education outside of the laboratory

    Published: 5/30/2019

  20. Lunch | Ken Cheng | Thinking Outside the Brain: Embodied, Extended, and Enactive Cognition in Animals

    Published: 4/16/2019

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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.