Center for Mind, Brain, and Culture

Talk sponsored by the Center for Mind, Brain, and Culture on March 4, 2013.

People often choose larger future rewards over smaller immediate ones, but then abandon that choice before the future re... Read more

Collective memory—sometimes referred to as public memory, or social (or cultural) memory—is a term commonly used in the ... Read more

For a given person to believe in a deity or deities, she must (a) be able to form intuitive mental representations of su... Read more

In recent years, cultural sociologists have grown increasingly interested in psychology and some influential psychologis... Read more

One of the most challenging aspects of learning is theory-change -- abandoning an old explanatory framework for a new on... Read more

Professor Tecumseh Fitch Dept of Cognitive Biology, University of Vienna, Austria I investigate human language viewed as... Read more

The notion that cognition comprises more than computations of a central nervous system operating on representations has ... Read more

Cultural traits—behaviors that are learned from others—can change more rapidly than genes and can be inherited not only ... Read more

This talk examines evolutionary, developmental psychology and social-cultural anthropology debates regarding how childre... Read more

Neuroscience has advanced considerably in the 40 years after Nagel’s classic essay, posing the question of “what it’s li... Read more

The "Embodiment of Thinking" a musical interlude/lesson sung by Dr. Ken Cheng.

Summer Workshop 2018: Human Cognitive Development Across Cultures A collaboration between Simon Fraser University (SFU) ... Read more

I outline a computational theory of phenomenal conscious experience, that is, of the basic awareness and its obligatory ... Read more

There has recently been an international surge of interest in building large brain models. The European Union's Human Br... Read more

Contemporary psychology and neuroscience have shed little light on mental states associated with enhanced cognitive capa... Read more

Taking the Lead on Motivation Proponents of Predictive Processing (PP) describe it as a grand unifying theory of the min... Read more

Ritual is a puzzling aspect of behavior, as it involves obvious expenditures of effort, energy and resources without equ... Read more

Panel discussion follows film screening of "Shadows and Illuminations" (Oct. 22, 2013).

A striking feature of the real world is that there is too much to think about. This feature is remarkably understudied ... Read more