Anil Seth is Professor of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience at the University of Sussex, where he is also Director of the Sussex Centre for Consciousness Science. Seth is also Co-Director of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR) Program on Brain, Mind, and Consciousness. Seth’s mission is to advance the science of consciousness, and to…
Iain McGilchrist is a former Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, an associate Fellow of Green Templeton College, Oxford, a Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, a Consultant Emeritus of the Bethlem and Maudsley Hospital, London, a former research Fellow in Neuroimaging at Johns Hopkins University Medical…
Alex Gómez-Marín is a Spanish physicist turned neuroscientist. He holds a PhD in theoretical physics and a Masters in biophysics from the University of Barcelona. He was a research fellow at the EMBL-CRG Centre for Genomic Regulation and at the Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown in Lisbon. His research spans from the origins of the…
Gabriel A. Radvansky is a Professor of Psychology at the University of Notre Dame. He is interested in a broad range of qualities of memory and comprehension. In particular, how they are involved in understanding and remembering events based on autobiographical, virtual, narrative, and other experiences. He is also strongly interested in how memories change…
Bernardo Kastrup is a philosopher and computer scientist best known for his work in the field of consciousness studies, particularly his development of analytic idealism. His research interests are Philosophy of Mind, Ontology, Neuroscience of Consciousness and Artificial Intelligence. Kastrup is the executive director of Essentia Foundation. His work has set off the modern renaissance…
Terrence William Deacon is an American neuroanthropologist. He is currently Professor of Anthropology and member of the Cognitive Science Faculty at the University of California, Berkeley. Deacon’s research combines human evolutionary biology and neuroscience, with the aim of investigating the evolution of human cognition. His work extends from laboratory-based cellular-molecular neurobiology to the study of…
Dr. Zorana Ivcevic Pringle studies the role of emotion and emotional intelligence in creativity and well-being, as well as how to use the arts (and art-related institutions) to promote emotion and creativity skills. She has previously served as Associate Editor of Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts and The International Journal of Creativity and…
Bahador Bahrami is a Senior Scientist and Director of Crowd Cognition Lab in Department of Psychology at Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich, Germany and Professor of Social Neuroscience at Department of Psychology at Royal Holloway University of London. Before coming to Munich, he spent a year in Berlin as a visiting Humboldt Fellow at the…
Robin Jensen’s research and publication focuses on the relationship between early Christian art and literature and examines the ways that visual images and architectural spaces should be regarded as modes of theological expression. Her published essays and books contend that, in addition to interpreting sacred texts, visual images enhance liturgical settings, reflect the nature and…