Center for Mind, Brain, and Culture
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. center-for-mind-brain-and-culture.simplecast.com
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Lecture | David Haskell | Can “Wild” Sounds Teach Us What it Means to be Human?
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Lecture (co-sponsored) | David Haskell | Can “Wild” Sounds Teach Us What it Means to be Human?
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Lecture | Martha Sprigge | Widowhood, Archives, and the Musical Work of Mourning in Postwar Europe
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Workshop | Joyce Ho + John Lindo | NSF Early Career Development (CAREER) grant workshop
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Lecture | Vernelle A. A. Noel | Craft + Computation: Culture, Design, Cognition
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Lecture | Karen Adolph | How Behavior Develops from Perceiving, Planning, and Acting
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Lecture | Tobias Overath | Acoustic and Linguistic Processing of Temporal Speech Structure
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Lecture | Zoe Donaldson | Neurobiology of Love and Loss: From Genes to Brain and Behavior
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Lunch | Lauren Klein | An Archive of Taste: Race and Eating in the Early United States
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Lecture | Maria Gendron | Bridging Minds: The Cultural Construction of Emotion Perception
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Lecture | Simone Shamay-Tsoory | The Empathic Brain: The Neural Underpinning of Human Empathy
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Lecture | Philip Ewell | White Stories, Black Histories, and Desegregating the Music Curriculum
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Lecture | Zohar Eitan | Space Oddity: Musical Syntax Is Mapped onto Visual Space
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Lecture | Andy Clark | Computational Psychiatry and the Construction of Human Experience
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Discussion Group | Slow Science: Trends in Cognitive Science a paper by Uta Frith
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