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John Iversen Associate Professor, Department of Psychology Neuroscience & Behaviour, McMaster University, Canada
James MacMillan Conductor; Artistic Director, The Cumnock Tryst; Professor of Theology, Imagination, and the Arts, St. Mary's College
Jonathan Schooler American psychologist and Distinguished Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of California, Santa Barbara
