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

  1. Neuroscience Workshop/Lecture (5 of 5) | Lena Ting | Modularity in Neural Control of Movement

    Published: 10/31/2015

  2. Neuroscience Workshop/Lecture (4 of 5) | Phil Wolff | The Large-Scale Structure of the Mental Dictionary: A Data Mining Approach Using Word2Vec, t-SNE, and GMeans

    Published: 10/31/2015

  3. Neuroscience Workshop/Lecture (3 of 5) | Chris Rozell | Dimensionality Reduction as a Model of Efficient Coding in the Visual Pathway

    Published: 10/30/2015

  4. Neuroscience Workshop/Lecture (2 of 5) | Gordon Berman | Compressing Animal Behavior

    Published: 10/30/2015

  5. Neuroscience Workshop/Lecture (1 of 5) | Byron Yu | Dimensionality Reduction of Large-Scale Neural Recordings during Sensorimotor Control

    Published: 10/30/2015

  6. Lecture | David Poeppel | Speech Is Special and Language Is Structured

    Published: 10/22/2015

  7. Lecture | Dimitris Xygalatas | Why Do We Perform Rituals?

    Published: 10/1/2015

  8. Lecture | Phillip Carter | Perceiving Spanish and English in Miami: Discourse, Representation, & Implicit Bias

    Published: 9/30/2015

  9. Lunch | Jennifer Mascaro and Carol Worthman | Challenges and Advances in Understanding the Varieties of Mental Experience

    Published: 9/29/2015

  10. Lecture | Joe Kable | Cognitive and Neural Mechanisms of Persistence

    Published: 9/24/2015

  11. Lunch | David Rye, Benjamin Reiss | What Is Normal Sleep?

    Published: 9/15/2015

  12. Grad Student Talk | Chris Martin | No Support for Declining Effect Sizes Over Time: Evidence from Three Meta-Meta-Analyses.

    Published: 9/8/2015

  13. Lecture | Steve Vaisey | Cultural Sociology and Moral Psychology

    Published: 9/3/2015

  14. Lecture | Chris Eliasmith | Building Brains from Bottom to Top

    Published: 3/25/2015

  15. Lecture | Pascal Boyer | Why “Religion” Cannot Be Adaptive: Understanding the Cognitive and Historical Varieties of Religious Representations

    Published: 3/24/2015

  16. Lecture | Mark Moffett | War and Peace and Social Identity

    Published: 3/5/2015

  17. Lecture | Ann Bradlow | Linguistic Experience and Speech-in-Noise Recognition

    Published: 3/3/2015

  18. Lunch | Hazel Gold and Angelika Bammer | Now You See It, Now You Don’t: Scientists, Humanists, and Collective Memory

    Published: 2/24/2015

  19. Lunch | Phillip Wolff, Dieter Jaeger | How to Build Bridges between Computational Neuroscience and Cognitive Psychology?

    Published: 2/19/2015

  20. Lecture | Bradd Shore | Look Again: Anamorphic Projection and Social Theory in Shakespeare

    Published: 2/5/2015

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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.