293 Episodes

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

    Published: 5/30/2019
  2. 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
  3. Workshop 2019 (1 of 6) | Suzanne Dikker | Brains in harmony: Connecting art, neuroscience and education outside of the laboratory

    Published: 5/30/2019
  4. Lunch | Ken Cheng | Thinking Outside the Brain: Embodied, Extended, and Enactive Cognition in Animals

    Published: 4/16/2019
  5. Lunch (bonus) | Ken Cheng | "Thinking Embodied" Lucia the Octopus Song

    Published: 4/16/2019
  6. Psychology Dept. Lecture | Ken Cheng | Ant Navigation

    Published: 4/15/2019
  7. Lunch | Bryan Gick | Embodying Speech

    Published: 4/15/2019
  8. Lecture | Cecilia Heyes | Cognitive Gadgets, the cultural evolution of thinking

    Published: 3/27/2019
  9. Lecture | Fiery Cushman | How We Know What Not to Think

    Published: 3/8/2019
  10. Lunch | Shimon Edelman | Consciousness: A Computational Account of Phenomenal Experience

    Published: 2/27/2019
  11. Shimon Edelman | Verbal Behavior without Syntactic Structures: Language beyond Skinner and Chomsky

    Published: 2/26/2019
  12. Lunch | Laura Emmery and Christina Tzeng | The Human Capacity for Music

    Published: 11/13/2018
  13. Public Conversation | Phil Wolff and Eugene Agichtein | Our Real and Digital Selves

    Published: 11/8/2018
  14. Lecture | Nina Kraus | Sound and Brain Health: What Have We Learned from Music and Concussion

    Published: 10/30/2018
  15. Lecture | Nicole Creanza | The Evolution of Learned Behaviors: Insights from Birds and Humans

    Published: 10/18/2018
  16. Lecture | Louis-Jean Boe & Thomas Sawallis | Which Way to the Dawn of Speech?

    Published: 10/17/2018
  17. Lunch | Barbara Ternes | Personal Reflections from Working with Margaret Mead

    Published: 9/26/2018
  18. CMBC Anniversary Lecture | Mike Tomasello | Origins of Human Collaboration

    Published: 9/20/2018
  19. Workshop 2018 (6 of 6) | Robyn Fivush | The Cultural Ecology of Family Narratives

    Published: 5/11/2018
  20. Workshop 2018 (5 of 6) | Lana Karasik | Motor Development Across Cultures

    Published: 5/11/2018

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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.