Nancy Andreasen

Woods Chair of Psychiatry, University of Iowa College of Medicine

Bahador Bahrami

Senior Scientist, Ludwig-Maximilian University Munich

Robert Bilder

Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences, UCLA

Susan Blackmore

Writer, Lecturer, Psychologist, Skeptic; Visiting Professor, University of Plymouth

Colin Blakemore

Director of the Centre for the Study of the Senses, Institute of Philosphy, University of London

Ned Block

Professor of Philosophy, Psychology and Neural Science, New York University

Joseph Bogen

Clinical Professor of Neurosurgery, USC; Visiting Professor, Caltech

Leslie Brothers

Psychiatrist; Author

Warren Brown

Professor of Psychology, Fuller Theological Seminary

Anjan Chatterjee

Professor of Neurology, Psychology, and Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania

Stephen Chorover

Professor Emeritus, Brain and Cognitive Sciences, MIT

Patricia S. Churchland

Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, UC San Diego

Carmine Clemente

Professor of Anatomy, former Director of the Brain Research Institute, University of California at Los Angeles

Eric Courchesne

Professor, Neurosciences, UC San Diego

Antonio Damasio

David Dornsife Chair in Neuroscience, and Professor of Psychology, Philosophy, and Neurology, USC

David Eagleman

Neuroscientist, Stanford University

Christopher Evans

Professor of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, and former Director of the Brain Research Institute, University of California at Los Angeles

Michael Graziano

Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience, Princeton University; Novelist

Susan Greenfield

Neuroscientist, Writer, Broadcaster, Entrepreneur; former Professor of Pharmacology, Oxford

Patrick Haggard

Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London

Stuart Hameroff

Professor Emeritus, Anesthesiology and Psychology; Director, Center for Consciousness Studies, University of Arizona

Donald Hoffman

Cognitive Scientist, UC Irvine

Nicholas Humphrey

Emeritus Professor of Psychology, University of Cambridge

John Iversen

Associate Director, Swartz Center for Computational Neuroscience, UC San Diego

Robin Jensen

The Patrick O'Brien Professor of Theology, the University of Notre Dame

Christof Koch

President and Chief Scientist, Allen Institute for Brain Science

Joseph LeDoux

Henry And Lucy Moses Professor of Science; Professor of Neural Science, Psychiatry, and Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, New York University

Alan Leshner

Former CEO, American Association for the Advancement of Science

Rodolfo Llinas

Professor of Neuroscience and Physiology, NYU Grossman School of Medicine

Uri Maoz

Assistant Professor of Computational Neuroscience and Psychology, Chapman University

Elizabeth Margulis

Professor of Music; Director, Music Cognition Lab, Princeton University

Kelsey Martin

Director, Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative; former Dean, David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA

John Mazziotta

Vice Chancellor, UCLA Health Sciences; CEO, UCLA Health

Patrick McNamara

Associate Professor of Neurology, Boston University

Michael Merzenich

Professor Emeritus, University of California, San Francisco; Kavli Laureate in Neuroscience

Ken Mogi

Senior Researcher, Sony Computer Science Labs (Japan)

Nancey Murphy

Senor Professor of Christian Philosophy, Fuller Theological Seminary

Eddy Nahmias

Professor of Philosophy, Georgia State University

Peitro Perona

Professor of Electrical Engineering, Caltech

Zorana Ivcevic Pringle

A Senior Research Scientist and Director of the Creativity and Emotions lab at the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence

V.S. Ramachandran

Distinguished Professor; Director, Center for Brain and Cognition, UC San Diego

Adina Roskies

Professor of Philosophy and Cognitive Science, Dartmouth College

Arnold Scheibel

Professor of Neurobiology and Psychiatry, and former Director of the Brain Research Institute, UCLA

John Schlag

Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Neurobiology, UCLA

Erin Schuman

Director, Department of Synaptic Plasticity, Max Planck Institute for Brain Research

Terrance Sejnowski

Professor and Laboratory Head, Computational Neurobiology Laboratory, Salk Institute

Todd Siler

Multimedia Artist and Author

Walter Sinnott-Armstrong

Professor of Practical Ethics, Department of Philosophy, Duke University

Robert Stickgold

Professor of Psychiatry; Director, Center for Sleep and Cognition, Harvard University

Allan Tobin

Chair in Neuroscience, Emeritus; Director Emeritus, UCLA Brain Research Institute

Giulio Tononi

Professor and Director, Wisconsin Institute for Sleep and Conssciousness, University of Wisconsin

Mark Tramo

Director, The Institute for Music & Brain Science; Neurologist, Good Samaritan Hospital

Peter Tse

Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Dartmouth

Roger Walsh

Professor, Psychiatry & Human Behavior, UC Irvine

Thalia Wheatley

Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences, Dartmouth College

Eran Zaidel

Emeritus Professor of Behavioral Neuroscience and Cognition, UCLA

Semir Zeki

Professor of Neuroaesthetics, University College London

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