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Mission Statement
The interdisciplinary Center for Culture, Mind, and the Brain (CCMB) is founded to address how culture and the mind influence one another and, furthermore, how the brain mechanisms are involved in this mutual influence. The CCMB promotes innovative basic and applied interdisciplinary research on the interplay among culture, mind, and the brain. The center serves three important missions. First, the CCMB will foster scientific research at the intersection of culture, mind, and the brain. Second, the CCMB will coordinate an interdisciplinary graduate training program on culture, mind and the brain and, third, the CCMB will become a hub of international network of cross-cultural interdisciplinary research on culture, mind, and the brain.
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Message from the Director
In recent years, it has become increasingly clear that although the brain is biologically based, it is also socially shaped and conditioned as it functions in dynamically changing cultural worlds. The CCMB aspires to provide a unique forum for researchers and graduate students who are interested in the interface between culture and the brain and, thus, to deepen our understanding about mental processes and mental functioning in humans.
We try to do so by starting a number of unique projects. First, we will start with a speaker-series that features researchers who have donework innovative work on culture and the brain. Second, we will establish an annual Summer Institute in Cultural Neuroscience. Third, we will create a network of social scientists and neuroscientists across the world so as to facilitate collaborative research.
Welcome and please join us!
Shinobu Kitayama
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