CNS Public Talk Series

Molly Crockett is an assistant professor of psychology at Yale University and a distinguished research fellow at the Oxford Centre for Neuroethics. Prior to joining [...]

Professor Nancy Campbell is a Professor and the Department Head of the Department of Science and Technology Studies (STS) in the School of Humanities, Arts [...]

Allyson Mackey PhD is interested in how changes in the brain give rise to changes in the mind, both as development unfolds, and in response [...]

Elliot Tucker-Drob received his Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Virginia. He has held fellowships at Harvard Medical School and the Max Planck Institute [...]

James Blair, Ph.D. is Chief of the Unit on Affective Cognitive Neuroscience in the Mood and Anxiety Disorders Program of the National Institute of Mental [...]

Takao K. Hensch, PhD, is joint professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School at Boston Children’s Hospital, and professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology at Harvard’s [...]

Laurence Steinberg, Ph.D., one of the world's leading experts on adolescence, is a Distinguished University Professor and the Laura H. Carnell Professor of Psychology at [...]

How do people understand each other, develop and change attitudes toward each other, and solve problems together? How are these processes influenced by group identity [...]

Why do poor people suffer with more chronic diseases and die at younger ages? Psychosocial stress is a big part of the answer, and of [...]

David Eagleman is a neuroscientist and a New York Times bestselling author. He directs the Laboratory for Perception and Action at the Baylor College of [...]

Susanne Jaeggi investigates working memory and executive control across the lifespan with behavioral and neuroimaging methods. Dr. Jaeggi is known for her research on whether [...]

Colin Blakemore's body of work is concerned with many aspects of vision, the early development of the brain and plasticity of the cerebral cortex. He [...]

No realm of life is left unexplored by artists. A myriad of forms and objects are explored, but one object is different. Unlike all other [...]

William Casebeer, PhD is well known for his work in neuroethics, the evolution of morality, the intersections of cognitive science and national security policy, philosophy [...]

Patricia Churchland, D.Litt, B.Phil, LLD, was an early proponent of the mutual relevance of neuroscience and philosophy. In her own work she has used developments [...]

John Gabrieli is the director of the Athinoula A. Martinos Imaging Center at the McGovern Institute. He is an Investigator at the Institute, with faculty appointments [...]

Slides for this video can be found here. Fiery Cushman is Assistant Professor of Psychology at Harvard University, where he directs the Moral Psychology Research Laboratory. [...]

Slides for this video can be found here. Paul Glimcher, PhD, is Director at New York University’s Institute for the Interdisciplinary Study of Decision Making, and [...]

Martha J. Farah was educated at MIT and Harvard, and has taught at Carnegie-Mellon University and the University of Pennsylvania. She is currently the Walter [...]

Adrian Raine is the Richard Perry University Professor in the Departments of Criminology, Psychiatry, and Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Raine's main area of interest is [...]

Anna Wexler is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Science, Technology and Society at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). She is currently a 2015-2016 [...]

Dr. Hamilton is an Assistant Professor in Neurology at the University of Pennsylvania. He graduated from Harvard Medical School and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology [...]

Dr. Stephen Morse is the Ferdinand Wakeman Hubbell Professor of Law and a Professor of Psychology and Law in Psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania. [...]

Geoffrey K. Aguirre is an Associate Professor of Neurology at the University of Pennsylvania and a cognitive neuroscientist. His clinical and research work concerns the [...]

Depression has become the single most commonly treated mental disorder, amid claims that one out of ten Americans suffer from this disorder every year and [...]

Anjan Chatterjee, MD, Professor of Neurology, Penn Center for Neuroscience & Society and author of the recently published The Aesthetic Brain: How We Evolved to [...]