Monthly Archives: October 2015

Thursday, October 7, 2010 Larry Barsalou and John Dunne CLICK HERE FOR LINK TO PODCAST It’s a pleasure to provide the first CMBC lunch blog entry of this academic school year. On Wednesday September 22nd, 23 faculty and students from … Continue reading →

Wednesday, November 4, 2009 Stella Lourenco and Leslie Taylor CLICK HERE FOR LINK TO PODCAST On October 29th, Stella Lourenco (Psychology) and Leslie Taylor (Theater Studies) led a fascinating discussion on the topic of how humans understand space. The speakers … Continue reading →

Monday, October 19, 2009 Philippe Rochat and Bradd Shore CLICK HERE FOR LINK TO PODCAST On Thursday, October 8th, Philippe Rochat (Psychology) and Bradd Shore(Anthropology) kicked off this year’s CMBC Lunch Discussion series, offering an engaging presentation concerning the psychological and cultural origins … Continue reading →

Saturday, February 28, 2009 Lynne Nygaard and Debra Spitulnik Lynne Nygaard (Psychology) and Debra Spitulnik (Anthropology) spoke in the last lunch of the spring 2009 semester about language in context. Debra contextualized the meeting by identifying the various disciplines in … Continue reading →

Tuesday, February 10, 2009 Paul Lennard and Steve Everett Paul Lennard (Neuroscience & Behavioral Biology) and Steve Everett (Music) opened the lunch meeting about music and the brain with four questions: (1) What is music? (2) Is music a language? … Continue reading →

Tuesday, February 3, 2009 Amy Cook Amy Cook (Theater and Literature, Indiana University) spoke in today’s CMBC lunch. While typically we get an interdisciplinary flavor in these lunches by having two speakers from different disciplines, this time Amy was alone, … Continue reading →

Wednesday, November 28, 2008 Patricia Churchland Responding to people’s request, CMBC decided to include Patricia Churchland’s talk of yesterday, “Decisions, Responsibilities, and the Brain,” in this blog. Do we have free will? Or to use Elliot Valenstein’s expression, should we … Continue reading →

Tuesday, October 28, 2008 Monica Capra and Jim Rilling This second lunch of the center was about neuroscientific and economic perspectives of social decision making. And since such decisions always involve risks, I am taking one myself. A neophyte blogger, … Continue reading →

Tuesday, October 7, 2008 Larry Barsalou and Tim McDonough In the first lunch meeting of the Emory Center for Mind, Brain, and Culture (CMBC), Larry Barsalou (Psychology) and Tim McDonough (Theater Studies) introduced the notion of grounding in scientific psychology … Continue reading →