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 | Shobhana Chelliah | The Disruptive Force of Endangered Language Documentation on Linguistics and Beyond

    Published: 3/30/2017

  2. Lecture | Kerry Marsh | Immersive Virtual Reality as Research Tool for the Behavioral Sciences

    Published: 3/4/2017

  3. Lecture | Azim Shariff | The Evolution, Purpose, and Consequences of Religious Prosociality

    Published: 2/21/2017

  4. Lunch | Joseph Neisser | Consciousness from an Empirical Stance

    Published: 2/16/2017

  5. Lecture | Charlie Nunn | The Evolution of Human Sleep

    Published: 2/2/2017

  6. Lunch | Donald Tuten & Alena Esposito | Sociocultural and Psychological Perspectives on Bilingualism

    Published: 1/24/2017

  7. Lecture | Ilina Singh | Disciplinary Disharmonies: Can There Be a Shared Vision for Global Neuroscience Ethics?

    Published: 11/15/2016

  8. Lecture | Anne Cleary | How Metacognitive States like Tip-of-the-Tongue and Déjà Vu Can Be Biasing

    Published: 10/20/2016

  9. Information Session | Laura Namy, Victoria Powers, Ronald Calabrese | Funding Opportunities and Secrets to Funding Success at the National Science Foundation

    Published: 10/14/2016

  10. Lecture | David C. Wilson | The Continuing Significance of Race in American Politics: Racial Resentment and the Pain of Progress

    Published: 10/13/2016

  11. Public Conversation | Alan Abramowitz and Scott Lilienfeld | Personality, Partisanship, and the Presidency

    Published: 10/6/2016

  12. Lecture | Sarah Brosnan | Comparative Decision Making in Non-Human Primates

    Published: 9/23/2016

  13. Lecture | Aniruddh Patel | The Evolution and Neurobiology of Musical Beat Processing

    Published: 3/22/2016

  14. Lecture | Elliott Sober | Ockham’s Razor ─ When is the Simpler Theory Better?

    Published: 3/15/2016

  15. Lecture | John Hawks | Homo Naledi and the Evolution of Human Behavior

    Published: 2/25/2016

  16. Lecture | Patrick Colm Hogan | Cognitive Aesthetics: Beauty, the Brain, and Virginia Woolf

    Published: 2/18/2016

  17. Emotions Conference 2016 (20 of 20) | Jim Grimsley, Don Saliers | Discussion: Aesthetic Emotions

    Published: 2/12/2016

  18. Emotions Conference 2016 (19 of 20) | Jim Grimsley | Emotion as Danger: Trigger Warnings and Dangerous Prose

    Published: 2/12/2016

  19. Emotions Conference 2016 (18 of 20)| Don Saliers | Processing Emotions Musically

    Published: 2/12/2016

  20. Emotions Conference 2016 (17 of 20) | Laura Otis, Philippe Rochat | Discussion: Unsavory Emotions

    Published: 2/12/2016

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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.