#642 Douglas Kenrick & David Lundberg-Kenrick - Solving Modern Problems with a Stone-Age Brain
Dr. Douglas Kenrick is a professor in the Department of Psychology at Arizona State University. More»
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#641 Robert Barton: The Evolution of the Primate Brain, The Visual Brain, and the Color Red
Dr. Robert Barton is Professor in the Department of Anthropology, Member of the Durham Cultural Evolution Research Centre at Durham University, UK. He is an evolutionary biologist/anthropologist interested in brains, behavior and cognition, using phylogenetic comparative methods to study how these traits evolved. He developed and tested the 'Visual brain hypothesis' for primate brain size evolution. He is currently interested in the underestimated role of the cerebellum in brain evolution and cognition. He also works on the evolutionary and cultural significance of the color red. More»
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#640 Manvir Singh: Going Beyond the Nomadic-Egalitarian Model of Hunter-Gatherers
Dr. Manvir Singh is Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Study in Toulouse. His research program aims to explain why societies develop complex, recurrent traditions such as shamanism, witchcraft, origin myths, property rights, sharing norms, lullabies, dance, music, and gods, as these have appeared in all types of societies across the globe, from nomadic hunter-gatherer bands to complex, industrial, mega-urbanized states. More»
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#639 Leo Tiokhin: Producing Scientific Knowledge, and Improving the Social Sciences
Dr. Leo Tiokhin is Research Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study at the University of Amsterdam, an Interdisciplinary Research Specialist at Strategic Alliance: TU/e, WUR, UU & UMC Utrecht, and a postdoctoral researcher at the Eindhoven University of Technology. Dr. Tiokhin is a meta-scientist who studies the forces that shape how scientists do their work and make inferences from the populations that they study. Much of his research focuses on how incentive structures affect scientific efficiency and reliability, and how we can improve the recognition and reward structures in science. More»
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#638 Henkjan Honing: The Evolution, Cognition, and Neuroscience of Musicality and Music
Dr. Henkjan Honing is professor in Music Cognition at both the Faculty of Humanities and the Faculty of Science of the University of Amsterdam (UvA). He conducts his research under the auspices of the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC) and the University of Amsterdam's Brain and Cognition (ABC) Center. Dr. Honing is known as a passionate researcher in this new interdisciplinary field that gives us fundamental insights in the cognitive mechanisms underlying musicality. He published several books, including Music Cognition: The Basics (2021, Routledge), The Evolving Animal Orchestra: In Search of What Makes Us Musical (2019, The MIT Press)–, and an edited volume with a research agenda on musicality entitled The Origins of Musicality (2018, The MIT Press). More»
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#637 Lars Sandman: Ethics in Healthcare, Priority Settings, and End-of-Life Decisions
Dr. Lars Sandman is Professor of Healthcare Ethics at Linköping University, and Director at National Centre for Priorities in Health, in Sweden. His research area is organizational ethics in healthcare, focusing on priority setting and ethical analysis of healthcare methods. He is the author of A Good Death: On the Value of Death and Dying. More»
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#636 Dan Weijers: The Philosophy of Wellbeing and Happiness
Dr. Dan Weijers is a permanent Senior Lecturer in the Philosophy Programme at the University of Waikato, in New Zealand. His research specialties include normative ethics (especially hedonism, wellbeing, and experimental normative ethics), applied ethics (especially the ethics of prediction markets; e.g. PredictIt), and interdisciplinary happiness/wellbeing research (especially wellbeing and public policy, philosophy of happiness science, and conceptions of happiness). More»
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#635 Mattia Riccardi: Nietzsche’s Philosophical Psychology
Dr. Mattia Riccardi is Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Arts at the University of Porto. He does work in the areas of philosophy of mind, Nietzsche’s philosophy, Kant’s philosophy, 19th-century German philosophy, phenomenology, philosophy of perception, and philosophy of action. He is the author of Nietzsche’s Philosophical Psychology. More»
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#634 Simon Garnier: Swarm Intelligence, Collective Decision-Making, and Human Societies
Dr. Simon Garnier is an Associate Professor of Biology at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. He is the head of the Swarm Lab, an interdisciplinary research lab that studies the mechanisms underlying Collective Behaviors and Swarm Intelligence in natural and artificial systems (http://www.theswarmlab.com). His research aims to reveal the detailed functioning of collective intelligence in systems as diverse as ant colonies, human crowds or robotic swarms. More»
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#633 Svetlana Rudenko: Music Perception and Cognition, Consciousness, and Synaesthesia
Dr. Svetlana Rudenko is a concert pianist and educator bringing a new feeling to the way in which sound, music, and art are perceived and experienced in new media. Key skills in understanding the nuances of cross-modal perception/synaesthesia and converting this knowledge into workable algorithms for multisensory design and digitally enhanced environments of VR/ AR for Education, Mental Health, and Cognitive Musicology. Dr. Rudenko was awarded Dr of Arts from University of Granada, Spain. In addition, she had three years on a Doctorate in the Music Performance program, Royal Irish Academy of Music, Dublin, Ireland, MMus in Performance from Conservatory of Music and Drama Dublin Institute of Technology, PG Dip in Interactive Digital Media from School of Computer Science and Statistics, Trinity College Dublin, and is a graduate of Tchaikovsky National Music Academy of Ukraine, Kiev. More»