November 5, 2016 · ▶ Video
Autism and the Mind/Brain
This roundtable explored how autism, a neurodevelopmental disorder affecting over 1% of the population, was historically misunderstood as resulting from poor parental...
Andrew Gerber, Nouchine Hadjikhani, Craig Newschaffer, Jeremy Veenstra-VanderWeele, Martha Welch
October 22, 2016 · ▶ Video
Embodied AI
The event explores how physical embodiment enhances artificial intelligence cognition. The core concept involves deploying natural language processing platforms -- like IBM Watson...
Michael Bess, Ned Block, David Hanson, Jeffrey Kephart, Francesca Rossi
September 24, 2016 · ▶ Video
Happiness
The roundtable explores happiness across philosophical and psychological dimensions. It examines whether contentment solely defines a flourishing life, whether pleasure's value...
Alberto Bisin, Shimon Edelman, Benjamin Radcliff, Wendy Suzuki, Christine Vitrano
May 7, 2016 · ▶ Video
Fear: Wherefore, Whence?
The roundtable explores the nature of fear and anxiety across multiple dimensions. Opening with classical quotes from Sophocles and Leviticus, it examines neurobiological,...
Nouchine Hadjikhani, MD, PhD, Robert Kurzban, PhD, Joseph LeDoux, PhD, Francis Lee, MD, PhD, Eric R. Marcus, MD
March 26, 2016 · ▶ Video
Understanding Genius II: Women
The roundtable explores why naming five female geniuses proves difficult despite history's abundance of brilliant women. It examines how genius has been historically conceived and...
Joyce Chaplin, Kathleen Kete, Anne-Marie Levine, Darrin McMahon, Susan Seymour
March 12, 2016 · ▶ Video
The Meditative State
This two-day symposium explores Warburg’s ideas and their adumbrations, e.g., his preoccupations with – and intuitions about – memory, both in relation to different forms of...
Sara Lazar, Peter Malinowski, Koshin Paley Ellison, Morgan Stebbins, Yi-Yuan Tang
February 20, 2016 · ▶ Video
Genes, Computers, and Medicine
The roundtable explored how developments in computational neuroscience, molecular biology, and genomics have opened up new ways of looking at disease. The discussion examined...
James Dahlman, Francis Lee, Karen Maschke, Hans-Guido Wendel
November 21, 2015 · ▶ Video
Translation Matters
The roundtable explores why translation has evolved from a set of restricted technical procedures into the basis of all human culture. It examines translation as a psychic,...
David Bellos, Bella Brodzki, Anne-Marie Levine, Suzanne Jill Levine, Mark Polizzotti, Michelle Woods
November 7, 2015 · ▶ Video
Speak, Memory
The roundtable explored advances in memory research over three decades, including neural processes of consolidation and reconsolidation, and the biochemistry of memory. Key...
Cristina Alberini, Sven Bernecker, Tom Carew, Martin Conway, Penelope Lewis
October 24, 2015 · ▶ Video
The Realm of Mystery
The roundtable explores Donald Rumsfeld's framework of "known knowns," "known unknowns," and "unknown unknowns." Participants examine how we identify gaps in knowledge, transform...
Megan Abbott, Carol Rovane, Michael S. Turner, Elliot Wolfson, Susan Wolfson
October 3, 2015 · ▶ Video
Understanding Genius
Schopenhauer's definition of genius contrasts with talent: "Talent hits a target others miss. Genius hits a target no one sees." The roundtable explored whether originality is...
Steve Hsu, Rex Jung, Darrin McMahon, Joanne Ruthsatz, Dean Keith Simonton
September 12, 2015 · ▶ Video
Epigenetics at Work
The roundtable explores how Lamarck's theory of inherited characteristics has been revived through the field of epigenetics: the study of alterations in gene expression or...
Frances Champagne, Zachary Kaminsky, Fei Li, Jessica Tyler
May 16, 2015 · ▶ Video
Human and Nonhuman Minds: Continuities and Discontinuities
The event examined animal cognition following Darwin's 1872 work on emotions. The subsequent prodigious scientific study of animal cognition and behavior has answered this...
Theodore Dimon, Stuart Firestein, Alexandra Horowitz, Irene Pepperberg, Diana Reiss
May 2, 2015 · ▶ Video
Trauma and its Aftereffects, Part I: War and Genocide
The roundtable explores what it means to be a survivor of traumatic violence in war and genocide, whether as victim, perpetrator, or descendant. It examines implications for...
Adam J. Sacks, Ryan Tellalian, Gottfried Wagner, Eva Weil, Phil Zabriskie
April 25, 2015 · ▶ Video
The Changing Nature of Free Will
The roundtable explored how advances in genetics and neuroscience are reshaping our understanding of free will and voluntary choice. Key questions included implications for...
Akeel Bilgrami, Luis Cabral, Brigitte Kahl, Kenneth T. Kishida, Simon Kochen