Brain & Cognitive Science

2021 Summer Research Institute Session

The Critical Role of Behavioral Science in Climate Change

Elissa Epel

Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Environment

2020 Contemplative Research Conference Session

Keynote and Q&A: “Understanding Human Thought Through Dynamic Brain Systems”

Kalina Christoff

Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Mental Health | Mindfulness

2020 Contemplative Research Conference Session

Plenary Panel: “Starting from Experience: Neurophenomenology and the Vision of Mind and Life Europe”

Moderators: John Dunne
Panel: Amy Cohen Varela, Antoine Lutz, Andreas Roepstorff

Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Mindfulness

2020 Summer Research Institute Session

Compassion-Centered Spiritual Healthcare

Jennifer Mascaro

Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Compassion & Empathy | Mental Health | Stress & Resilience

2020 Summer Research Institute Session

Developmental Contemplative Science: Framework for the Study of Prosocial Development

Phil Zelazo

Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Compassion & Empathy | Education

2019 Summer Research Institute Session

From Looking Out to Looking In: Re-Thinking How We Study and Train Attention in Mental Health

Amit Bernstein

Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Mental Health | Mindfulness

2019 Summer Research Institute Session

Interdisciplinary Panel: Translating Neuroscience

Moderators: Andrew Dreitcer, Elissa Epel
Panel: Anil Seth, Clifford Saron, Daniel Siegel, Lawrence Barsalou, Yoona Kang, Norman Farb, Elissa Epel, Andrew Dreitcer

Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Education

2019 Summer Research Institute Session

Measuring, Understanding, and Changing Mental Habits

Lawrence Barsalou

Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Mental Health | Mindfulness

2019 Summer Research Institute Session

Mental Habits, Prediction Machines, and Controlled Hallucinations

Anil Seth

Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Mental Health

2019 Summer Research Institute Session

Breaking Habits: Self-Transcendence and Health Behavior Change

Yoona Kang

Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Mental Health | Self & Other

2018 International Symposium for Contemplative Research Session

Master Lectures: Integrating First–person Inquiry in the Higher Education Classroom

Judith Simmer-Brown

Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Compassion & Empathy | Contemplative Wisdom | Education | Mindfulness | Self & Other

2018 International Symposium for Contemplative Research Session

Master Lectures: The Neural and Physiological Mechanisms Supporting Mindfulness–induced Pain Relief

Fadel Zeidan

Topics: Body-based Practices | Brain & Cognitive Science | Mindfulness | Stress & Resilience

2018 International Symposium for Contemplative Research Session

Master Lectures: Mindfulness to Meaning: Healing Hedonic Dysregulation in Addiction, Stress, and Pain with Mindfulness–Oriented Recovery Enhancement

Eric Garland

Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Mental Health | Mindfulness | Stress & Resilience

2018 International Symposium for Contemplative Research Session

Catherine Kerr Award Ceremony and Lectures: “How to Choose Between Beautiful Stories”

Norman Farb

Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Contemplative Wisdom | Self & Other

2018 International Symposium for Contemplative Research Session

Contemplative Session: Putting the Mind in the Heart: Centering Prayer and the Christian Contemplative Tradition

Cynthia Bourgeault

Topics: Body-based Practices | Brain & Cognitive Science | Contemplative Wisdom | Mindfulness

2018 International Symposium for Contemplative Research Session

Closing Keynote “Where Is This All Going, and What’s Love—and Insight, Embodied Wisdom, and Community—Got to Do With It?”

Jon Kabat-Zinn

Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Contemplative Wisdom | Education | Interconnection | Mindfulness

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2018 International Symposium for Contemplative Research Session

Master Lectures: Contemplative Studies Panel: Contemplating the Future of “Contemplative Studies”

Moderators: Erin McCarthy
Panel: Amishi Jha, Harold Roth, Ed Sarath, Erin McCarthy

Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Contemplative Wisdom | Education | Self & Other

2018 International Symposium for Contemplative Research Session

Master Lectures: Mindfulness Training in High Demand, Time-Pressured Real-world Settings: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

Amishi Jha

Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Mindfulness

2018 International Research Institute Session

Contemplative Practice in Context: Embodiment, Enactment and the Cultural Neurophenomenology of Experience

Laurence J. Kirmayer

Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Compassion & Empathy | Contemplative Wisdom | Self & Other

2018 International Research Institute Session

Neuroscience as a Modern Context for Studying Meditation: How Far Are We, Really?

Gaelle Desbordes

Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Mental Health | Mindfulness

2018 International Research Institute Session

Observation of the Mind in Buddhism and Mindfulness

Kenryo Minowa

Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Contemplative Wisdom | Mindfulness | Self & Other

2018 International Research Institute Session

The Whole Person Sits: Social Imaginaries of Practitioners and Researchers in the Scientific Study of Meditation

Clifford Saron

Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Contemplative Wisdom | Education

2018 International Research Institute Session

The Zen Roots of Contemplative Studies

Harold Roth

Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Compassion & Empathy | Contemplative Wisdom | Education | Self & Other

2018 Summer Research Institute Session

Flexible Social Cognition and Dehumanisation

Lasana Harris

Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Self & Other

2018 Summer Research Institute Session

Contemplative Neuroscience through the Lens of Diversity and Social Justice

Helen Weng

Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Interconnection | Social Change

2018 Summer Research Institute Session

Neurological Identities: Challenging the Brain as the Locus of Difference

Suparna Choudhury

Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Social Change

2018 Summer Research Institute Session

Person-Perception, Self-Perception, and Moral Development from Infancy to Adolescence

Robert Roeser

Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Compassion & Empathy | Self & Other

2018 Mind & Life Dialogue XXXIII Session

Evaluation and Implementation: Challenges and Opportunities for Human Flourishing

Sonia Lupien, Patricia (Tish) Jennings, Aaron Stern

Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Compassion & Empathy | Contemplative Wisdom | Education | Mindfulness | Stress & Resilience

2018 Mind & Life Dialogue XXXIII Session

Meta-Awareness and Attention Training in Education Research

Amishi Jha, Sona Dimidjian, Thupten Jinpa, Richard J. Davidson

Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Compassion & Empathy | Contemplative Wisdom | Education | Mindfulness | Stress & Resilience

2018 Mind & Life Dialogue XXXIII Session

Early Childhood Development and Social Emotional Learning

Richard J. Davidson, Michel Boivin, Daniel Goleman, Kimberly Schonert-Reichl

Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Contemplative Wisdom | Education | Stress & Resilience

2017 Mind & Life Dialogue XXXII Session

Session IV – The Role of Botho/Ubuntu in Modern Responses to Children’s and Women’s Rights Issues in Africa

Graça Machel, Theo Sowa

Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Contemplative Wisdom | Interconnection | Self & Other | Social Change

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2017 Mind & Life Dialogue XXXII Session

Session IV – The Biology of Care and Conflict in Groups

Carsten K.W. De Dreu, Theo Sowa

Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Contemplative Wisdom | Interconnection | Self & Other | Social Change

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2017 Mind & Life Dialogue XXXII Session

Session III – The Impact of Trauma on the Brain: Structural Changes and Behavioral Outcome

Rebecca Shansky, Theo Sowa

Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Compassion & Empathy | Stress & Resilience

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2017 Mind & Life Dialogue XXXII Session

Session III – I am Because we are: Dynamic and Embodied Brain-to-brain Coupling as a new Framework for Social Interaction Between People

Uri Hasson, Theo Sowa

Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Compassion & Empathy | Contemplative Wisdom | Interconnection | Self & Other

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2017 Summer Research Institute Session

Interdisciplinary Panel Social Networks: Intersubjectivity, Connectivity and Technology

Moderators: Elissa Epel
Panel: Pete Fleming, David Sbarra, Tania Singer, Elissa Epel

Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Interconnection | Self & Other

2017 Summer Research Institute Session

Plasticity of the Social Brain: Effects of a One-year Mental Training Study on Social Connectedness, Compassion, Theory of Mind, Social Stress, and the Body

Tania Singer

Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Compassion & Empathy | Interconnection | Mindfulness | Self & Other | Stress & Resilience

2017 Summer Research Institute Session

Love and Enaction: Towards an Engaged Epistemology

Hanne De Jaegher

Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Interconnection | Self & Other

2017 Summer Research Institute Session

Social Connectivity, Mind States, and Biological Aging

Elissa Epel

Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Interconnection | Mental Health | Stress & Resilience

2017 Summer Research Institute Session

Relationships, Health, and Technology: Toward an Evolutionary Mismatch?

David Sbarra

Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Interconnection | Mental Health

2017 Summer Research Institute Session

Interdependency: the Buddha’s Central Insight

William Waldron

Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Contemplative Wisdom | Interconnection

2017 Summer Research Institute Session

The Enactive Approach to Cognition

Evan Thompson

Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science

2016 International Symposium for Contemplative Studies Session

NCCIH Research Priorities and Funding Opportunities for Mind and Body Health

Partap Khalsa

Topics: Body-based Practices | Brain & Cognitive Science | Mental Health | Mindfulness | Stress & Resilience

2016 International Symposium for Contemplative Studies Session

Tibetan Sound Meditation

Alejandro Chaoul

Topics: Body-based Practices | Brain & Cognitive Science | Contemplative Wisdom

2016 International Symposium for Contemplative Studies Session

Closing Keynote: What is Mindfulness? An Embodied Cognitive Science Perspective

Evan Thompson

Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Interconnection | Mindfulness | Self & Other

2016 International Symposium for Contemplative Studies Session

Engaged Contemplative Practice in Islamic Sufism: Silent Emphasis

Alan Godlas

Topics: Body-based Practices | Brain & Cognitive Science | Contemplative Wisdom

2016 International Symposium for Contemplative Studies Session

Master Lectures: Minding Mindfulness: Issues, Models, and Findings in the Scientific Study of Meditation

Clifford Saron

Topics: Body-based Practices | Brain & Cognitive Science | Compassion & Empathy | Contemplative Wisdom | Mindfulness | Stress & Resilience

2016 International Symposium for Contemplative Studies Session

Master Lectures: The Missing Link of Leadership Development: Cultivating Awareness in Action

Jeremy Hunter

Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Contemplative Wisdom | Education | Stress & Resilience

2016 International Symposium for Contemplative Studies Session

Ethical Know-How and Christian Contemplative Practices: A Case Study from Late Antiquity

Niki Clements

Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Contemplative Wisdom

2016 International Symposium for Contemplative Studies Session

Master Lectures: Mindfulness-Informed Acceptance-Based Behavioral Therapy for Anxiety

Lizabeth Roemer

Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Contemplative Wisdom | Education | Mental Health | Mindfulness

2016 International Symposium for Contemplative Studies Session

Master Lectures: Understanding the Psychology Behind Compassion Meditation

Topics: Body-based Practices | Brain & Cognitive Science | Compassion & Empathy | Contemplative Wisdom | Mental Health | Mindfulness

2016 International Symposium for Contemplative Studies Session

Master Lectures: Neurobiological Underpinnings of Contemplative Practices: Is There Common Ground (and who cares)?

Judson Brewer

Topics: Body-based Practices | Brain & Cognitive Science | Contemplative Wisdom | Mindfulness

2016 International Symposium for Contemplative Studies Session

Opening Keynote, Contemplative and Neuroscientific Perspectives on Personal and Social Well Being: A Conversation with Matthieu Ricard and Richard J. Davidson

Richard J. Davidson, Matthieu Ricard

Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Contemplative Wisdom | Mental Health | Self & Other

2016 International Symposium for Contemplative Studies Session

Keynote: Mindfulness Therapeutics in the Promotion of Mental Health

Zindel Segal

Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Contemplative Wisdom | Mental Health | Mindfulness

2016 Summer Research Institute Session

You Are Always on My Mind

Andreas Roepstorff

Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Interconnection | Self & Other

2016 Summer Research Institute Session

Taxonomies, Lifeworlds, and Self-cultivation: Contemplative Practices in Multiple Contexts

David McMahan

Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Contemplative Wisdom

2016 Summer Research Institute Session

Cognitive Ecology: Implications for Contemplative Science

Evan Thompson

Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Interconnection

2016 Summer Research Institute Session

Community Engagement and Contemplative Neuroscience within a Diverse Contemplative Community

Helen Weng

Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Social Change

2016 Summer Research Institute Session

On the Placebo Effect and Its Implications for the Science of Mindfulness

Catherine Kerr

Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Mental Health | Mindfulness

2016 Summer Research Institute Session

Embodiment: Biocultural Dynamics in Pathways to Differential Well-Being

Carol Worthman

Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Mental Health | Stress & Resilience

2016 Summer Research Institute Session

Ecologies of Mind in Health and Illness: A Perspective from Cultural Psychiatry

Laurence J. Kirmayer

Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Mental Health | Self & Other