Emory College, Emory Center for Mind, Brain and Culture (CMBC)

Center for Mind, Brain, and Culture

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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 realiz...

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Emory College, Emory Center for Mind, Brain and Culture (CMBC)

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Metaphors Conference (2 of 5 | Anjan Chatterjee | The Neuroscience of Relational Thinking 08.03.2012 51:22

Anjan Chatterjee (Neurology, University of Pennsylvania) If you would like to become an AFFILIATE of the Center, please let us know. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to get updates on our latest videos. Follow along with us on Instagram |   Facebook   NOTE:  The views and opinions expressed by the speaker do not necessarily reflect those held by the Center for Mind, Brain, and Cultu...

Metaphors Conference (1 of 5) | Jim Grimsley | Silence Being Golden 08.03.2012 43:56

Jim Grimsley (Creative Writing Program) If you would like to become an AFFILIATE of the Center, please let us know. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to get updates on our latest videos. Follow along with us on Instagram |   Facebook   NOTE:  The views and opinions expressed by the speaker do not necessarily reflect those held by the Center for Mind, Brain, and Culture or Emory Unive...

Lunch | Salman Rushdie | Narrative: Films and Texts 01.03.2012 58:02

How does one transform a literary narrative into film? What is the difference between writing for a narrative text and writing for a film? How might the author invoke scene, place, character and other elements differently depending on the medium? This discussion session highlights Dr. Rushdie's expertise in narrative and how it functions in a variety of forms. If you would like to become an AFFILI...

Lecture | Clare Porac | The Continuing Enigma of Left-Handedness 28.02.2012 57:28

Clare Porac (Psychology, Pennsylvania State University) If you would like to become an AFFILIATE of the Center, please let us know. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to get updates on our latest videos. Follow along with us on Instagram |   Facebook   NOTE:  The views and opinions expressed by the speaker do not necessarily reflect those held by the Center for Mind, Brain, and Cultur...

Lunch | Evelyne Ender | Handwriting: The Brain, the Hand, the Eye, the Ear 24.02.2012 1:12:05

This lunch session addresses the course of Dr. Ender’s engagement with the concept of graphology, focusing specifically on implications of the emergent transition from hand-written, manuscript technologies to digital modes of writing and archival expression. This talk surveys several approaches to this transition in contemporary empirical research with the goal of opening up productive new possibi...

Lecture | Lauren Harris | We Speak with the Left Hemisphere: The Story of Paul Broca’s Discovery that Changed Our Understanding of the Human Brain 14.02.2012 1:10:31

Lauren Harris (Psychology, Michigan State University) If you would like to become an AFFILIATE of the Center, please let us know. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to get updates on our latest videos. Follow along with us on Instagram |   Facebook   NOTE:  The views and opinions expressed by the speaker do not necessarily reflect those held by the Center for Mind, Brain, and Culture...

Lecture | Barbara Maria Stafford | SlowLooking: What Visual Art Tells Us about Selective Attention 02.02.2012 50:34

Barbara Maria Stafford (Georgia Institute of Technology) If you would like to become an AFFILIATE of the Center, please let us know. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to get updates on our latest videos. Follow along with us on Instagram |   Facebook   NOTE:  The views and opinions expressed by the speaker do not necessarily reflect those held by the Center for Mind, Brain, and Cultu...

Lecture | Todd Preuss | Humans and Other Animals: A Modern Darwinian Understanding of 'Man's Place in Nature' 03.11.2011 1:18:06

Todd Preuss (Yerkes National Primate Research Center) If you would like to become an AFFILIATE of the Center, please let us know. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to get updates on our latest videos. Follow along with us on Instagram |   Facebook   NOTE:  The views and opinions expressed by the speaker do not necessarily reflect those held by the Center for Mind, Brain, and Culture...

Lecture | Susan A. Nolan | Eye of the Beholder: Gender and Perceptions of Mentoring in Science Education Globally 27.10.2011 50:33

Susan A. Nolan (Seton Hall University) If you would like to become an AFFILIATE of the Center, please let us know. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to get updates on our latest videos. Follow along with us on Instagram |   Facebook   NOTE:  The views and opinions expressed by the speaker do not necessarily reflect those held by the Center for Mind, Brain, and Culture or Emory Univer...

Lunch | Dierdre Reber and Jocelyne Bachevalier | Cultural and Neuroscientific Perspectives on Emotion 18.10.2011 1:07:29

Perspectives on Emotion If you would like to become an AFFILIATE of the Center, please let us know. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to get updates on our latest videos. Follow along with us on Instagram |   Facebook   NOTE:  The views and opinions expressed by the speaker do not necessarily reflect those held by the Center for Mind, Brain, and Culture or Emory University.

Lecture | Nancy Nersessian | Building Cognition: Conceptual Innovation on the Frontiers of Science 27.09.2011 1:09:35

Nancy J. Nersessian (School of Interactive Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology) If you would like to become an AFFILIATE of the Center, please let us know. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to get updates on our latest videos. Follow along with us on Instagram |   Facebook   NOTE:  The views and opinions expressed by the speaker do not necessarily reflect those held by the Cen...

Lunch | Robert McCauley and Susan Tamasi | What Is Language? 22.09.2011 1:09:41

What is language? If you would like to become an AFFILIATE of the Center, please let us know. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to get updates on our latest videos. Follow along with us on Instagram |   Facebook   NOTE:  The views and opinions expressed by the speaker do not necessarily reflect those held by the Center for Mind, Brain, and Culture or Emory University.

Brain Evolution Workshop (6 of 6) | Craig Hadley | What's Human about the Human Brain? Exploring Evolutionary Specializations of the Human Brain 26.05.2011 1:16:39

Brain Evolution Workshop (6 of 6) | Craig Hadley | What's Human about the Human Brain? Exploring Evolutionary Specializations of the Human Brain If you would like to become an AFFILIATE of the Center, please let us know. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to get updates on our latest videos. Follow along with us on Instagram | Facebook NOTE: The views and opinions expressed by the speaker do not...

Brain Evolution Workshop 2011 (5 of 6) | Dietrich Stout |Technology and Cognitive Evolution | Human Brain Workshop 26.05.2011 51:56

Dietrich Stout on "Technology and Cognitive Evolution: What's human about the human brain? Exploring evolutionary specializations of the human brain." From Emory University's Center for Mind, Brain, and Culture Summer 2011 Workshop, (May 25-27, 2011) If you would like to become an AFFILIATE of the Center, please let us know. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to get updates on our latest v...

Brain Evolution Workshop 2011 (4 of 6) | Dietrich Stout | Archaeological and Paleontological Record of Human Cognitive Evolution | Human Brain Workshop 26.05.2011 1:39:17

Dietrich Stout "Archaeological and Paleontological Record of Human Cognitive Evolution: What's human about the human brain? Exploring evolutionary specializations of the human brain." From Emory University's Center for Mind, Brain, and Culture Summer 2011 Workshop, May 25-27, 2011." If you would like to become an AFFILIATE of the Center, please let us know. Subscribe to our YouTube...

Brain Evolution Workshop 2011 (3 of 6) | Jim Rilling | Structural Brain Imaging Methods | Human Brain Workshop 25.05.2011 15:47

Jim Rilling, "_Structural Brain Imaging Methods: What's human about the human brain? Exploring evolutionary specializations of the human brain." From Emory University's Center for Mind, Brain, and Culture Summer 2011 Workshop, May 25-27, 2011." If you would like to become an AFFILIATE of the Center, please let us know. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to get updates on our latest vi...

Brain Evolution Workshop 2011 (2 of 6) | Todd Preuss | Fundamentals of Evolutionary Neuroscience | Human Brain Workshop 25.05.2011 1:31:41

Todd Preuss "Fundamentals of Evolutionary Neuroscience: What's human about the human brain? Exploring evolutionary specializations of the human brain." From Emory University's Center for Mind, Brain, and Culture Summer 2011 Workshop, May 25-27, 2011." If you would like to become an AFFILIATE of the Center, please let us know. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to get updates on our la...

Brain Evolution Workshop 2011 (1 of 6) | Todd Preuss | Introduction and History of Study of Brain Evolution | Human Brain Workshop 25.05.2011 1:23:50

Todd Preuss on "Introduction of study of Brain Evolution: What's human about the human brain? Exploring evolutionary specializations of the human brain." From Emory University's Center for Mind, Brain, and Culture Summer 2011 Workshop, May 25-27, 2011." If you would like to become an AFFILIATE of the Center, please let us know. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to get updates on our...

Lecutre | Konrad Talmont-Kaminsky | Epistemic Vigilance, Reasoning, and Religion 23.03.2011 1:13:16

Konrad Talmont-Kaminsky (Marie Curie-Sklodowska University, Lublin, Poland) If you would like to become an AFFILIATE of the Center, please let us know. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to get updates on our latest videos. Follow along with us on Instagram |   Facebook   NOTE:  The views and opinions expressed by the speaker do not necessarily reflect those held by the Center for Min...

Lunch | Deboleena Roy and Kim Wallen | What Does the Brain Have to Do with Sex and Gender 01.03.2011 1:06:40

What Does the Brain Have to Do with Sex and Gender If you would like to become an AFFILIATE of the Center, please let us know. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to get updates on our latest videos. Follow along with us on Instagram |   Facebook   NOTE:  The views and opinions expressed by the speaker do not necessarily reflect those held by the Center for Mind, Brain, and Culture or...

Public Conversation | Darryl Neill, Ursula Goldenbaum | Zombiehood: Is It Inevitable? 22.02.2011 54:53

Zombies in Hollywood are the animated dead but philosophers have been talking for centuries about zombies in a different sense–the idea that we are all simply soulless machines. Is it inevitable that we're all just zombies? Dr. Neill and Dr. Goldenbaum debate this issue -- draw your own conclusions! If you would like to become an AFFILIATE of the Center, please let us know. Subscribe to our YouTub...

Lunch | Stella Lourenco, Leslie Taylor | How Humans Understand Space 27.10.2010 1:10:58

Stella Lourenco (Psychology) and Leslie Taylor (Theater Studies) If you would like to become an AFFILIATE of the Center, please let us know. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to get updates on our latest videos. Follow along with us on Instagram |   Facebook   NOTE:  The views and opinions expressed by the speaker do not necessarily reflect those held by the Center for Mind, Brain, a...

Lunch | Bradd Shore and Philippe Rochat | Origins of Human Sociality 08.10.2010 1:19:24

Origins of Human Sociality If you would like to become an AFFILIATE of the Center, please let us know. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to get updates on our latest videos. Follow along with us on Instagram |   Facebook   NOTE:  The views and opinions expressed by the speaker do not necessarily reflect those held by the Center for Mind, Brain, and Culture or Emory University.

Lunch | Larry Barsalou and John Dunne | Mind and Brain from the Perspective of Buddhism and Western Science 22.09.2010 51:44

Mind and Brain from the Perspective of Buddhism and Western Science If you would like to become an AFFILIATE of the Center, please let us know. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to get updates on our latest videos. Follow along with us on Instagram |   Facebook   NOTE:  The views and opinions expressed by the speaker do not necessarily reflect those held by the Center for Mind, Brain...

Lunch | John Johnston and Sidney Perkowitz | Can Machines Be Intelligent? 17.03.2010 59:42

John Johnston (English) and Sidney Perkowitz (Physics) If you would like to become an AFFILIATE of the Center, please let us know. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to get updates on our latest videos. Follow along with us on Instagram |   Facebook   NOTE:  The views and opinions expressed by the speaker do not necessarily reflect those held by the Center for Mind, Brain, and Culture...