Author Archives: Shlomit Finkelstein

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 →