Center for Mind, Brain, and Culture

About 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.

Publisher

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

Category

education · science · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

12 Nov 2009

Latest episode

22 Sept 2026

Latest episodes

310 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   22 Sept 2026

   Lecture | Marion Thain "Attention Studies: Configuring a New 'Interdisciplinary Discipline'"

   ORIGINAL FORMAT VIDEO https://youtu.be/mjzH8OGIef8?si=uq4IQ4TN7l-zCqyA Lecture | Marion Thain

2. 

   8 Apr 2026

   Seminar Series - Keio+Emory | "Performing for Failure: Embodying Grief on Stage Through Ethnodrama"

   ORIGINAL FORMAT VIDEO https://youtu.be/5_5Z0_fm6X8 Seminar Series - Keio+Emory | Yoon Won Chang

3. 

   3 Apr 2026

   Lecture | Raphaël Julliard "The Creative Engine and the Sense of Rightness"

   ORIGINAL FORMAT VIDEO https://youtu.be/xX8awTM6FIQ Lecture | Raphaël Julliard

Reach and audience

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YouTube views

30,925

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

3.8 / 5

4 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 65 / 100

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Quality

70

Social presence

91

YouTube

76

Engagement

31

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