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. Lunch | Philippe Rochat, Lori Teague, Alejandro Abarca | Self Consciousness and Authenticy in Dance & Developmental Psychology

    Published: 3/22/2018

  2. Lecture | Karl Alexander | Reflections on the Long Shadow in the Wake of Freddie Gray

    Published: 3/5/2018

  3. Lunch | Julia Haas | Taking the Lead on Motivation, Predictive Processing and Reinforcement Learning

    Published: 2/27/2018

  4. Lecture | W. Tecumseh Fitch | The Biology & Evolution of Language: Continuity and Change

    Published: 2/13/2018

  5. Public Conversation | Greg Berns and Mark Risjord | Can We Know What it's Like to Be a Dog?

    Published: 2/8/2018

  6. Lunch | Segundo Mesa-Castillo | About the Etiology of Schizophrenia:  A View from Cuba

    Published: 12/1/2017

  7. Lecture | Curtis Marean | The Transition to Foraging for Dense and Predictable Resources and Its Impact on the Evolution of Modern Humans

    Published: 12/1/2017

  8. Lecture | Arnon Lotem | Coevolution of Learning and Data-Acquisition Mechanisms: A Model for Cognitive Evolution

    Published: 11/15/2017

  9. Symposium (5 of 5) | Panel Discussion | Culture, Learning and Education

    Published: 10/27/2017

  10. Symposium (4 of 5) | Susan Gelman | Learning and Theory Change: A Developmental Perspective

    Published: 10/27/2017

  11. Symposium (3 of 5) | Cassidy Puckett | Technological Change, Learning, and Inequality

    Published: 10/27/2017

  12. Symposium (2 of 5) | Jason Yeatman | Reading Instruction and Building the Neural Circuitry of Literacy

    Published: 10/27/2017

  13. Symposium (1 of 5) | Barry Hewlett | Intimate Living, Teaching, and Learning among the Aka and Other Hunter-Gatherers

    Published: 10/27/2017

  14. Lunch | Jennifer Mascaro & Robyn Fivush | Gender Differences in Parenting

    Published: 10/19/2017

  15. Workshop 2017 (3 of 3) | Gordon Ramsay | Social Neuroscience and the Nature and Origin of Religious Experience

    Published: 5/18/2017

  16. Workshop 2017 (2 of 3) | Ara Norenzayan | A Tale of Intertwining Spectrums: Is There a Link Between Autistic Tendencies and Disbelief in Gods?

    Published: 5/18/2017

  17. Workshop 2017 (1 of 3) | Ara Norenzayan | Social Cognition, Theory of Mind, and Belief in Gods

    Published: 5/18/2017

  18. AAR Conference | Robert McCauley | Gods in Disorder: Schizophrenia, Religious Experience, and Hearing Voices

    Published: 5/5/2017

  19. Lecture | Tiffany Yip | Exploring Sleep as a Mediator between Ethnic/Racial Discrimination and Adolescent Academic and Psychosocial Outcomes

    Published: 4/13/2017

  20. Lunch | Eric Smadja | Laughter: An Example of Human Complexity

    Published: 4/6/2017

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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.