Emory Center for Mind, Brain, and Culture

Emory Center for Mind, Brain, and Culture Facilitating inquiry on mind, brain, and culture from an interdisciplinary perspective. Program Coordinator:
Leslie S. Grant

The Center for Mind, Brain, and Culture (CMBC) of Emory College was founded in 2007, and the first Director and Associate Director were appointed in the spring of 2008. The CMBC moved into its current facility in the Psychology and Interdisciplinary Sciences Building in 2009. The CMBC’s activities and programming have been funded primarily by a grant from the Dean of Emory College. The Center has

also received support from the Emory University Subvention Fund, the Computational and Life Sciences Initiative, the Neuroscience Initiative, the Emory Cognition Project, the Departments of Psychology and Anthropology, the Laney Graduate School at Emory University, the Hightower Fund, and the American Academy of Religion. Director:
Lynne Nygaard, Professor, Department of Psychology

Associate Director:
Dietrich Stout, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology

Program Coordinator:
Tamara Lynn Beck

Asst.

Follow along on Instagram too!
04/24/2026

Follow along on Instagram too!

Congrats to one of our fantastic Undergraduate Fellows a superstar in the Emory University Program in Linguistics, Deann...
04/23/2026

Congrats to one of our fantastic Undergraduate Fellows a superstar in the Emory University Program in Linguistics, Deanna Sharpe. Deanna received the 2026 Award for Excellence in Spanish and Linguistics! AND presented her research, titled “Accent and Dialect Acquisition among Children with Autism Exposed to In-Home Social Language Variation,” at the Mellon Mays Spring Research Conference on Friday, April 10, 2026.

Tabling at Emory Wonderful Wednesday just after dental surgery is no problem four our intrepid student assistant, Lucy! ...
04/15/2026

Tabling at Emory Wonderful Wednesday just after dental surgery is no problem four our intrepid student assistant, Lucy! We are going to miss her when she goes out into the world to become the best dentist ever! 🤹‍♀️

Shout out to one of our wonderful CMBC Certificate Program students, Federico Sánchez Vargas for capturing the Outstandi...
04/02/2026

Shout out to one of our wonderful CMBC Certificate Program students, Federico Sánchez Vargas for capturing the Outstanding Student Presentation Award for his poster on CapuchinAI at this year's American Association of Biological Anthropologist conference!! This award recognizes the important contributions students make to the field and celebrates innovative, rigorous research by emerging scholars.

Thanks to everyone for attending our lecture today with Dr!
03/26/2026

Thanks to everyone for attending our lecture today with Dr!

We love hosting faculty mixers at the CMBC, providing a space for Emory's new and seasoned faculty to discover interesti...
03/23/2026

We love hosting faculty mixers at the CMBC, providing a space for Emory's new and seasoned faculty to discover interesting new intersections.

The Great Debate! CMBC hosted Ga Tech's Ratan Murty and Emory University's Jared Medina for a healthy debate – "To Predi...
11/13/2025

The Great Debate! CMBC hosted Ga Tech's Ratan Murty and Emory University's Jared Medina for a healthy debate – "To Predict of To Explain." Check out the video here:

"To Predict or To Explain"Apurva Ratan Murty | Assistant Professor, Psychology | Georgia Institute of TechnologyJared Medina | Associate Professor, Psycholog...

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