Center for Mind, Brain, and Culture Emory College, Emory Center for Mind, Brain and Culture (CMBC)
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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.
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Lecture | Leah Krubitzer "Combinatorial Creatures: Cortical Plasticity Within and Across Lifetimes"
ORIGINAL FORMAT VIDEO
https://youtu.be/h4AgO6N0s5o
Lecture | Leah Krubitzer -
Lunch | Ivana Ilic + Jasna Veličković "How Do We Know It's Music? On Musical Capacities of the Electromagnetic Field"
ORIGINAL FORMAT VIDEO
https://youtu.be/f_g9kIFf7FU
Lunch | Ivana Ilic + Jasna Veličković -
Lunch | Richard Moore | "Freedom, Forgiveness and Reconciliation: Lessons from Northern Ireland"
ORIGINAL FORMAT VIDEO
https://youtu.be/RwhnZa9P934
Lunch | Richard Moore -
Lecture | Arkarup Banerjee | "Neural Circuits for Vocal Communication: Insights from the Singing Mice."
ORIGINAL FORMAT VIDEO
https://youtu.be/1wqoBbZV6ho
Lecture | Arkarup Banerjee -
Lecture | Jack Gallant | "The Distributed Conceptual Network in the Human Brain"
ORIGINAL FORMAT VIDEO
https://youtu.be/ejn-xvZTz5o
Lecture | Jack Gallant -
McCauley Honorary | Claire White "An Introduction to the Cognitive Science of Religion"
ORIGINAL FORMAT VIDEO
https://youtu.be/cLoSyNd94P4?feature=shared
McCauley Honorary | Claire White