Sinopsis
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.
Episodios
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Lunch | John Johnston and Sidney Perkowitz | Can Machines Be Intelligent?
17/03/2012 Duración: 59minJohn Johnston (English) and Sidney Perkowitz (Physics)
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Metaphors Conference (5 of 5) | Laura Otis, Krish Sathian | Metaphors and the Mind Panel Discussion
08/03/2012 Duración: 44minMetaphors Conference (5 of 5) | Laura Otis, Krish Sathian | Metaphors and the Mind Panel Discussion
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Metaphors Conference (4 of 5) | David Kemmerer | Time Is Space: The Neuropsychology of an Everyday Metaphor
08/03/2012 Duración: 54minDavid Kemmerer (Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences; Psychological Sciences, Purdue University)
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Metaphors Conference (3 of 5) | Joseph Skibell | Head in the Wrong Direction
08/03/2012 Duración: 34minJoseph Skibell (Creative Writing Program)
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Metaphors Conference (2 of 5 | Anjan Chatterjee | The Neuroscience of Relational Thinking
08/03/2012 Duración: 51minAnjan Chatterjee (Neurology, University of Pennsylvania)
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Metaphors Conference (1 of 5) | Jim Grimsley | Silence Being Golden
08/03/2012 Duración: 43minJim Grimsley (Creative Writing Program)
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Lunch | Salman Rushside | Narrative: Films and Texts
01/03/2012 Duración: 58minHow 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.
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Lecture | Clare Porac | The Continuing Enigma of Left-Handedness
28/02/2012 Duración: 57minClare Porac (Psychology, Pennsylvania State University)
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Lunch | Evelyne Ender | Handwriting: The Brain, the Hand, the Eye, the Ear
24/02/2012 Duración: 01h12minThis 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 possibilities for encounters between humanistic and scientific perspectives. Co-sponsored by the Hightower Fund, the Department of French and Italian, The Bill and Carol Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry, the Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, the Department of Art History, the Department of Comparative Literature, the Department of English, the Program in Linguistics, the Graduate Institute of Liberal Arts.
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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 Duración: 01h10minLauren Harris (Psychology, Michigan State University)
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Lecture | Barbara Maria Stafford | SlowLooking: What Visual Art Tells Us about Selective Attention
02/02/2012 Duración: 50minBarbara Maria Stafford (Georgia Institute of Technology)
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Lecture | Todd Preuss | Humans and Other Animals: A Modern Darwinian Understanding of 'Man's Place in Nature'
03/11/2011 Duración: 01h18minTodd Preuss (Yerkes National Primate Research Center)
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Lecture | Susan A. Nolan | Eye of the Beholder: Gender and Perceptions of Mentoring in Science Education Globally
27/10/2011 Duración: 50minSusan A. Nolan (Seton Hall University)
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Lunch | Dierdre Reber and Jocelyne Bachevalier | Cultural and Neuroscientific Perspectives on Emotion
18/10/2011 Duración: 01h07minPerspectives on Emotion
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Lecture | Nancy Nersessian | Building Cognition: Conceptual Innovation on the Frontiers of Science
27/09/2011 Duración: 01h09minNancy J. Nersessian (School of Interactive Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology)
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Lunch | Robert McCauley and Susan Tamasi | What Is Language?
22/09/2011 Duración: 01h09minWhat is language?
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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 Duración: 01h16minBrain Evolution Workshop (6 of 6) | Craig Hadley | What's Human about the Human Brain? Exploring Evolutionary Specializations of the Human Brain
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Brain Evolution Workshop 2011 (5 of 6) | Dietrich Stout |Technology and Cognitive Evolution | Human Brain Workshop
26/05/2011 Duración: 51minDietrich 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)
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Brain Evolution Workshop 2011 (4 of 6) | Dietrich Stout | Archaeological and Paleontological Record of Human Cognitive Evolution | Human Brain Workshop
26/05/2011 Duración: 01h39minDietrich 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."
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Brain Evolution Workshop 2011 (3 of 6) | Jim Rilling | Structural Brain Imaging Methods | Human Brain Workshop
25/05/2011 Duración: 15minJim 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."