Elizabeth Hellmuth Margulis is a professor at Princeton University, where she directs the Music Cognition Lab. Her research approaches music from the combined perspectives of music theory/musicology and cognitive science. Her book On Repeat: How Music Plays the Mind received the 2014 Wallace Berry Award from the Society for Music Theory, and the 2015 ASCAP…
John Iversen is a cognitive neuroscientist with a background in physics developing tools to study dynamic mechanisms of cognition and development. He is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology Neuroscience and Behaviour at McMaster University in Canada. Iversen’s work involves the study of the cooperation between perceptual and motor systems in shaping…
Joshua Greene is a professor of Psychology at Harvard University. Greene is an experimental psychologist, neuroscientist, and philosopher. He studies moral judgment and decision-making, primarily using behavioral experiments and functional neuroimaging (fMRI). Other interests include religion, cooperation, and the capacity for complex thought. He is the author of Moral Tribes: Emotion, Reason, and the Gap…
Antonio Damasio is the David Dornsife Chair in Neuroscience, as well as Professor of Psychology, Philosophy, and Neurology, at the University of Southern California. He was previously the chair of neurology at the University of Iowa for 20 years. Damasio heads the Brain and Creativity Institute, and has authored several books: his most recent work,…
Simone Schnall is a Reader in Experimental Social Psychology and the Director of Studies in Psychological and Behavioural Sciences at Jesus College, Cambridge. Schnall and her research group conduct experimental studies to investigate how bodily, emotional, and social factors influence judgments, decisions, and behaviors. Current research topics include judgments and decisions in moral and legal…
Pascal Robert Boyer is an American cognitive anthropologist and evolutionary psychologist of French origin, mostly known for his work in the cognitive science of religion. He taught at the University of Cambridge for eight years before taking up the position of Henry Luce Professor of Individual and Collective Memory at Washington University in St. Louis,…
Semir Zeki is a British neurobiologist who has specialized in studying the primate visual brain and the neural correlates of affective states, such as the experience of love, desire, and beauty that are generated by sensory inputs within the field of neuroesthetics. He was educated at University College London (UCL), where he was Henry Head…
Jean-Luc Jucker is an anthropologist expert in interdisciplinary research and mixed methods. He proposed a novel theory of art using research in anthropology and psychology, as well as field surveys at the Tate gallery and online experiments. More recently, Jucker used participant observation, structured interviews and naturalistic experiments to investigate the introduction of the mass…
Ernest Thomas Lawson is an honorary professor at the Institute of Cognition and Culture at Queen’s University Belfast. He is the executive editor of the Journal of Cognition and Culture and co-founder of the North American Association for the Study of Religion. He is a founding member and has served as the first President of…
Anjan Chatterjee is a professor of neurology, psychology, and architecture at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the director of the Penn Center for Neuroaesthetics and a member of the Brain Science Center. His research focuses on the neurobiology of aesthetic experiences. He also conducts research on spatial cognition and its relationship to language and writes about the ethical use…
Sam Parnia is a British associate professor of Medicine at the NYU Langone Medical Center where he is also director of research into cardiopulmonary resuscitation. In the United Kingdom, he is director of the Human Consciousness Project at the University of Southampton. Parnia is known for his work on near-death experiences and cardiopulmonary resuscitation. Parnia…
Julia Mossbridge, M.A., Ph.D. is a Visiting Scientist at the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS), the CEO and Research Director of Mossbridge Institute, LLC, and a Visiting Scholar in the Psychology Department at Northwestern University. Her research interest is primarily to understand how time is perceived by the conscious and subconscious minds. This has led…