أفضل بودكاسات Center For Mind Brain And Culture (2024)

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Lecture | Anna Ivanova "Dissociating Language and Thought in Humans and in Machines" 1:00:06

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Anna Ivanova | Assistant Professor, School of Psychology | Georgia Tech College of Sciences "Dissociating Language and Thought in Humans and in Machines" “What is the relationship between language and thought? This question has long intrigued researchers across scientific fields. In this talk, I will propose a framework for clarifying the language-…

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Lecture | Leah Krubitzer "Combinatorial Creatures: Cortical Plasticity Within and Across Lifetimes" 1:08:29

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Leah Krubitzer | MacArthur Fellow Professor of Psychology | University of California, Davis "Combinatorial Creatures: Cortical Plasticity Within and Across Lifetimes" "The neocortex is one of the most distinctive structures of the mammalian brain, yet also one of the most varied in terms of both size and organization. Multiple processes have contri…

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Lunch | Ivana Ilic + Jasna Veličković "How Do We Know It's Music? On Musical Capacities of the Electromagnetic Field" 1:14:55

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Ivana Ilic | Music Theory, Emory University Jasna Veličković | Composer and Performer "How Do We Know It's Music? On Musical Capacities of the Electromagnetic Field" What happens when the electromagnetic signal is not only deliberately made audible, but also exploited with a specifically musical aim? In this presentation, I investigate the distinct…

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Lunch | Richard Moore | "Freedom, Forgiveness and Reconciliation: Lessons from Northern Ireland" 1:05:20

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Richard Moore | Executive Director, Children in Crossfire "Freedom, Forgiveness and Reconciliation: Lessons from Northern Ireland" Dr. Moore’s talk is part of the CMBC's Spring 2024 sponsored course “Empathy, Theater and Social Change” taught by Dr. Lisa Paulsen and Dr. Brendan Ozawa-de Silva. This lunch talk was Co-sponsored by Emory’s Center for …

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Lecture | Arkarup Banerjee | "Neural Circuits for Vocal Communication: Insights from the Singing Mice." 56:21

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Arkarup Banerjee | School of Biological Science / Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, NY "Neural Circuits for Vocal Communication: Insights from the Singing Mice." My long-standing interest is to understand how circuits of interacting neurons give rise to natural, adaptive behaviors. Using vocal communication behavior across rodent species, my lab at CS…

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Lecture | Jack Gallant | "The Distributed Conceptual Network in the Human Brain" 1:10:42

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Jack Gallant (Psychology, Electrical Engineering, and Computer Science / University of California, Berkeley) "The Distributed Conceptual Network in the Human Brain" Human behavior is based on a complex interaction between perception, stored knowledge, and continuous evaluation of the world relative to plans and goals. Even seemingly simple tasks su…

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McCauley Honorary | Claire White "An Introduction to the Cognitive Science of Religion" 49:57

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Claire White | Religious Studies, California State University, Northridge "An Introduction to the Cognitive Science of Religion" In recent decades, a new scientiﬁc approach to understanding, explaining, and predicting many features of religion has emerged. The cognitive science of religion (CSR) has amassed research on the forces that shape the ten…

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McCauley Honorary | Harvey Whitehouse "Against Interpretive Exclusivism" 59:04

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Harvey Whitehouse | Anthropology, University of Oxford, UK "Against Interpretive Exclusivism" Interpretive exclusivism is the claim that studying cultural systems is exclusively an interpretive exercise, ruling out reductive explanation and scientific methods. Following the lead of Robert N. McCauley and E. Thomas Lawson, I will argue that the cost…

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McCauley Honorary | Emma Cohen "From Social Synchrony To Social Energetics. Or, Why There's Plenty Left in the Tank" 59:40

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Emma Cohen | Anthropology, University of Oxford, UK "From Social Synchrony To Social Energetics. Or, Why There's Plenty Left in the Tank" Thirty years ago, in an article entitled Crisis of Conscience, Riddle of Identity, Bob McCauley and Tom Lawson powerfully critiqued the “hermeneutic exclusivism” that by then prevailed in anthropology and the his…

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McCauley Honorary | Dimitris Xygalatas "Ritual, Embodiment, and Emotional Contagion" 48:17

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Dimitris Xygalatas | Anthropology, University of Connecticut "Ritual, Embodiment, and Emotional Contagion" While the Cognitive Science of Religion has brought the mind to the forefront of analysis, it has had little to say about the body. As a result, the mechanisms underlying much-discussed and well-documented effects often remain elusive. In this…

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McCauley Honorary | Justin Barrett "Bringing Technology to Mind: Cognitive Naturalness and Technological Enthusiasm" 58:15

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Justin Barrett | President, Blueprint 1543 "Bringing Technology to Mind: Cognitive Naturalness and Technological Enthusiasm" Sometimes new technologies spread before society has had sufficient time to evaluate them. Can we make better decisions about whether to be enthusiastic or reticent regarding new tech without waiting for thorough testing or t…

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McCauley Honorary | E. Thomas Lawson - Special Valedictory Presentation 14:35

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E. Thomas Lawson | Professor Emeritus of Comparative Religion, Western Michigan University If you would like to become an AFFILIATE of the Center, please let us know. Follow along with us on Instagram | Threads | Facebookبقلم E. Thomas Lawson, Queens University and Western Michigan University (emeritus)

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McCauley Honorary | Mark Risjord and Kareem Khalifa "Me and Bobby McC" 4:43

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Mark Risjord | Director, Institute for Liberal Arts, Emory University + Kareem Khalifa | Philosophy, University of California, Los Angeles pay a unique video tribute to their former mentor and friend, Robert McCauley on the occasion of his retirement. If you would like to become an AFFILIATE of the Center, please let us know. Follow along with us o…

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McCauley Honorary | Pascal Boyer "What Kinds of Religion are “Natural”?" 52:37

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Pascal Boyer | Psychology & Anthropology, Washington University, St. Louis "What Kinds of Religion are "Natural"?" McCauley emphasized that religious representations are “natural”, in contrast to other cultural systems that require systematic training or leaning and institutional scaffolding. Pursuing this line of reasoning, we can see how some lim…

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McCauley Honorary | Kareem Khalifa "The Methodenstreit Ain't Right: McCauley on Interpretation and Explanation" 30:02

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Kareem Khalifa | Philosophy, University of California, Los Angeles "The Methodenstreit Ain't Right: McCauley on Interpretation and Explanation" Does interpretation distinguish the human sciences from the natural sciences? Or do explanations drive the human sciences in a manner akin to their more venerable natural-scientific cousins? These questions…

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McCauley Honorary | Bryon Cunningham, "Evolution, Mood Disorders, and Religious Coping: Interactions Between Explanatory and Interpretive Theories in Clinical Practice" 1:00:12

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Bryon Cunningham | Psychology, Occidental College "Evolution, Mood Disorders, and Religious Coping: Interactions Between Explanatory and Interpretive Theories in Clinical Practice" In this talk, I advocate for the view that explanatory and interpretive theories can be mutually enriching in clinical practice. I start with the ecumenical view that th…

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McCauley Honorary | Jared Rothstein, "Surfing, Sharks, & The Limits of Reason" 43:21

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Jared Rothstein | Philosophy, Daytona State University "Surfing, Sharks, & The Limits of Reason" Based on personal experience surfing in the “Shark Bite Capital of the World” (Volusia County, Florida) and interdisciplinary research from the fields of behavioral economics, neuropsychology, and philosophy of mind, the author rejects the traditional R…

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McCauley Honorary | Charles Nussbaum "Why Normative Ethics Is Natural and Metaethics Is and Is Not" 1:11:07

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Charles Nussbaum | Philosophy, University of Texas, Austin "Why Normative Ethics Is Natural and Metaethics Is and Is Not" Morality prescribes privileged standards for action and character. Ethics is the philosophy of morality. Normative ethics codifies the prescriptive principles of morality that justify considered judgments of cases. Metaethics is…

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Lecture | Oliver Rollins | "Towards an Anti-Racist Neuroscience: Possibilities and Problematics with Scientific Progress" 1:13:34

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Oliver Rollins | American Ethnic Studies / African American Studies / Sociology, University of Washington "Towards an Anti-Racist Neuroscience: Possibilities and Problematics with Scientific Progress" Alongside the deadly COVID-19 outbreak, the biomedical and health sciences have been altered by the continued challenge of racism. Major academic sci…

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Lecture | Sashank Varma | "Mathematical Concepts in Humans and Machine Learning Models" 53:03

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Sashank Varma | Psychology and Interactive Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology "Mathematical Concepts in Humans and Machine Learning Models" The nature of mathematical concepts has long been a topic of philosophical debate. Recent theorizing in mathematical cognition has tended towards nativist accounts and postulations of built-in neural ci…

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Lecture (co-sponsored) | Larry Young & Rev Patti Ricotta "Using the Science of Love and Bonding...(see below)" 1:48:04

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Using the Science of Love and Bonding to Bring New Perspectives on Social Relationships, Health, and the Practice of Female Genital Mutilation in East Africa. Larry Young | Center for Translational Social Neuroscience | Psychiatry, Emory University Rev. Patti Ricotta | President, Life Together International Discussants: Kathryn M. Yount | Global He…

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Lecture (co-sponsored) | David Haskell | Can “Wild” Sounds Teach Us What it Means to be Human? 1:25:26

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"Can 'Wild' Sounds Teach Us What it Means to be Human?" David Haskell | Biology & Environmental Sciences | University of the South, Sewanee, TN Presented by hosts Laura Emmery (Department of Music / Emory University) and Cynthia Willett (Department of Philosophy / Emory University) Co-sponsored by the Center for Mind, Brain, and Culture, and The De…

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Lecture | Tom Griffiths | "The Rational Use of Cognitive Resources" 1:13:52

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Tom Griffiths | Psychology & Computer Science | Princeton University "The Rational Use of Cognitive Resources" Psychologists and computer scientists have very different views of the mind. Psychologists tell us that humans are error-prone, using simple heuristics that result in systematic biases. Computer scientists view human intelligence as aspira…

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Lecture | Michael Goldstein | "Simple Interactions Construct Complex Communication in Songbirds and Human Infants" 1:16:06

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Michael Goldstein | Psychology, Cornell University "Simple Interactions Construct Complex Communication in Songbirds and Human Infants" Despite the immense variety of sounds we associate with the animal world, the ability to learn a vocal repertoire is a rare phenomenon, emerging in only a handful of groups, including humans. To gain a better under…

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Lecture (co-sponsored) | Martha Sprigge | Widowhood, Archives, and the Musical Work of Mourning in Postwar Europe 1:06:50

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"Widowhood, Archives, and the Musical Work of Mourning in Postwar Europe" Martha Sprigge | Musicology | University of California, Santa Barbara Presented by Dept. of Music with co-sponsorship from Dept. of Philosophy / Center for Mind, Brain, and Culture / Center for Faculty Development and Excellence This presentation examines how gendered mournin…

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Workshop | Joyce Ho + John Lindo | NSF Early Career Development (CAREER) grant workshop 47:23

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Have you thought about applying to the NSF Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER)? These prestigious awards can provide a major boost to your career and require an integration of education and research activities different from more conventional research grant applications. Learn more about this program and how to put together a successf…

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External Lecture | Dietrich Stout | The Evolution of Technology 52:45

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Keynote Address | The Evolution of Culture and Technology Mini Symposium | Tel Aviv University The simple fact of tool-making no longer provides a sharp dividing line between “Man the Tool-Maker” and the rest of the animal world. It is now clear that many other species make and use tools, and that distinctly human technology emerged through a long,…

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Lecture | Vernelle A. A. Noel | Craft + Computation: Culture, Design, Cognition 52:21

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Vernelle A. A. Noel | Architecture & Interactive Computing | Georgia Institute of Technology Craft practices and communities carry histories and cultures of people, knowledges, innovations, and social ties. Some reasons for their disappearance include dying practitioners, lacking pedagogy, changing practices, and technocentric developments. How mig…

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Lecture | Karen Adolph | How Behavior Develops from Perceiving, Planning, and Acting 48:40

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Karen Adolph | Psychology and Neural Science | New York University All behavior is movement—walking, talking, reaching, eating, looking, touching—all of it. Motor behavior is foundational for learning and doing in everyday life. Most important for functional movement is behavioral flexibility—the ability to tailor movements to local conditions. Whe…

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Lecture | Tobias Overath | Acoustic and Linguistic Processing of Temporal Speech Structure 55:38

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Tobias Overath | Psychology and Neuroscience | Duke University Speech perception entails the transformation of the acoustic waveform that reaches our ears to linguistic representations (e.g., syntax, semantics) to enable communication. The nature of this acousto-linguistic transformation - how different acoustic properties of the speech signal are …

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Lecture | Andrew Buskell | Kinds of Cumulative Cultural Evolution 48:42

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Andrew Buskell | Public Policy | Georgia Institute of Techonology The current consensus in cultural evolution is that cumulative cultural evolution (“CCE”) set hominins apart: capacities for CCE are distinctive to hominins and help explain their geographic spread and evolutionary success. CCE is an intuitive idea: cultural traits are modified upon …

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"Inside the Lab" | Kathryn Kadous interviewed by Lynne Nygaard 39:20

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Kathryn Kadous, the Schaefer Chaired Professor of Accounting and Director and Associate Dean of PhD Program in the Goizueta Business School at Emory University talks with Lynne Nygaard, the recent past-director of the CMBC and current Professor and Chair, Department of Psychology at Emory, discuss her research into the judgement and decision-making…

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Frans de Waal | CMBC Discussion with Lynne Nygaard and Dietrich Stout 47:46

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Frans de Waal (Director of the Living Links Center and C.H. Candler Professor of Psychology, Emory University) sits down for a discussion with the CMBC former-Director, Lynne Nygaard (Professor and Chair, Department of Psychology, Emory University) and Dietrich Stout (CMBC Director and Professor in the Department of Anthropology, Emory University) …

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"Inside the Lab" | Robert Liu interviewed by Dietrich Stout 35:33

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Robert Liu is the new Associate Director of the Center for Mind, Brain, and Culture, a Professor of Biology and an Affiliate Scientist at the Emory National Primate Research Center. He is interviewed about his research in his Computational Neuroethology Lab by CMBC Director and Professor of Anthropology, Dietrich Stout. Bio Page Robert Liu Lab Webs…

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Lecture | Ran Barkai | The Elephant in the Handaxe: Lower Paleolithic Ontologies and Representations 1:06:20

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Humans and Proboscideans (the taxonomic order of elephants as well as several extinct animals such as mammoth) have shared habitats across the Old and New Worlds during the past two million years, starting with the appearance of the Genus Homo in Africa and following the dispersals of humans to other continents. Proboscideans were included in the h…

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Lecture | Sonya Pritzker | Embodiment, Emotion, and Intimacy at the Intersection of Linguistic and Biocultural Anthropology 1:17:12

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Drawing upon data from an ongoing ethnographic study of embodiment and emotion in everyday interaction among cohabitating couples in the U.S., this presentation engages with key theoretical and methodological questions involved in conducting ethnographic research at the intersection of linguistic and biocultural anthropology. My discussion, specifi…

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Lecture | Molly Crockett | Digital Outrage: Mechanisms and Consequences 1:15:25

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Moral outrage shapes fundamental aspects of social life and is now widespread in online social networks. How does social media change the expression of moral outrage and its social consequences? Drawing on evidence from neuroeconomics, I will develop a theory that social media platforms amplify moral outrage by exploiting our capacity to learn from…

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Lecture | Elise Piazza | Interpersonal Synchrony: A Framework for Understanding the Dynamics of Everyday Communication and Learning 1:05:40

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Communication is inherently social and requires an efficient exchange of complex cues between individuals. What are the behavioral and neural processes that allow people to understand, couple to, and learn from others in complex, everyday interactions? My research examines the interpersonal dynamics of communication across the lifespan using behavi…

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Lecture | Tara White | Dignity Neuroscience: Connected Action 1:03:30

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Universal human rights are defined by international agreements, law, foreign policy, and the concept of inherent human dignity. However, rights defined on this basis can be readily subverted by overt and covert disagreements and can be treated as distant geopolitical events rather than bearing on individuals’ everyday lives. A robust case for unive…

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Lecture | Zoe Donaldson | Neurobiology of Love and Loss: From Genes to Brain and Behavior 1:01:32

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Romantic bonds reinforce our health and well-being while their sudden loss is highly detrimental. To identify the neural and genetic mechanisms that contribute to the positive physiological effects of social bonds, my laboratory has taken advantage of the unique behavioral repertoire of monogamous prairie voles. Unlike laboratory rats and mice, pra…

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"Inside the Lab" | Aubrey Kelly interviewed by Dietrich Stout 29:06

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Aubrey Kelly, Assistant Professor of Psychology at Emory University talks with Dietrich Stout, Assistant Director of the CMBC about her work in https://www.thekellylab.org/ http://psychology.emory.edu/home/people/faculty/kelly-aubrey.html If you would like to become an AFFILIATE of the Center, please let us know. Follow along with us on Instagram |…

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Certificate Program Graduate | Bree Beal testimonial 2:29

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Bree Beal talks about the value he's received from completing the Center for Mind, Brain, and Culture's Certificate Program. If you would like to become an AFFILIATE of the Center, please let us know. Follow along with us on Instagram | Threads | Facebookبقلم Center for Mind, Brain, and Culture

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Lunch | Lauren Klein | An Archive of Taste: Race and Eating in the Early United States 55:00

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There is no eating in the archive. This is not only a practical admonition to any would-be researcher but also a methodological challenge, in that there is no eating—or, at least, no food—preserved among the printed records of the early United States. Synthesizing a range of textual artifacts with accounts (both real and imagined) of foods harveste…

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Lecture | Maria Gendron | Bridging Minds: The Cultural Construction of Emotion Perception 1:13:43

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Unpacking the nature of emotions is critical to a scientific understanding of the human condition. Recent evidence reveals that emotion categories contain considerable neural, physiological and behavioral variation, challenging long-held views of emotions. Consistent with these broad patterns, I will present research highlighting diversity in perce…

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Lecture | Simone Shamay-Tsoory | The Empathic Brain: The Neural Underpinning of Human Empathy 1:03:31

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Empathy allows us to understand and share one another’s emotional experiences. It allows one to quickly and automatically relate to the emotional states of others, which is essential for the regulation of social interactions and cooperation toward shared goals. Behavioral and neuroimaging findings have led researchers to identify two broad types of…

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Lecture (co-sponsored) | Philip Ewell | White Stories, Black Histories, and Desegregating the Music Curriculum 48:05

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Presented by Music Department, Emory University with co-sponsorships by the Center for Mind, Brain, and Culture, Hightower Fund, Department of Philosophy, Department of Film and Media, and the Department of German Studies. In certain languages the words for “history” and “story” are the same, as in French (histoire) or Russian (история). There are …

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Lecture | Chikako Ozawa-de Silva | The Anatomy of Loneliness 1:10:24

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Loneliness is everybody’s business. Neither a pathology, nor a rare affliction, it is part of the human condition. Severe and chronic loneliness, however, is a threat to individual and public health and appears to be on the rise. In 2018, U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May said, “Loneliness is one of the greatest public health challenges of our time,”…

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Lecture | Zohar Eitan | Space Oddity: Musical Syntax Is Mapped onto Visual Space 3:06

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Musicians ubiquitously apply spatial metaphors when describing the stability hierarchy established by tonal syntax: stable tones are considered spatially central and, as gravitational foci, spatially lower. We investigated whether listeners, musicians and non-musicians, indeed associate tonal relationships with visuospatial dimensions, including sp…

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"Inside the Lab" | Stephanie Koziej interviewed by Dietrich Stout 37:57

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Stephanie Koziej talks with Dietrich Stout about her work and upcoming gallery show, "Tender Rhythms" Stephanie Koziej, PhD is an award-winning interdisciplinary researcher, artist, educator, curator and activist working on the intersection of the humanities, arts, science and technology. Specialized in theorizing intimate connections through inter…

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"Inside the Lab" | Chikako Ozawa de-Silva interviewed by Dietrich Stout 25:12

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Chikako Ozawa de-Silva talks with Dietrich Stout about her research and upcoming book "The Anatomy of Loneliness" If you would like to become an AFFILIATE of the Center, please let us know. Follow along with us on Instagram | Threads | Facebookبقلم Dietrich Stout, Chikako Ozawa de-Silva

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