This roundtable will explore how advances in epigenetics and transgenerational inheritance challenge traditional “nature versus nurture” frameworks by reframing traits, behaviors, and diseases as the products of multifactorial genetic and environmental interactions.

Human and Nonhuman Minds: Continuities and Discontinuities

This roundtable will examine how advances in the study of animal cognition and behavior have expanded our understanding from whether animals think to how and to what extent they think, and what their cognitive worlds may consist of.

Sat
May 2nd
2015

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Trauma and its Aftereffects, Part I: War and Genocide

This roundtable will consider how experiences of war and genocide shape survivors, perpetrators, and descendants, and how violence sanctioned by states or cultures informs individual and collective conscience.

Sat
Apr 18th
2015

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The Mind of a Child

This roundtable will examine how young children understand and experience the world across developmental stages, and what these differences reveal about cognition, memory, and emotion, with implications for supporting both typical development and developmental disorders.

Particle Fever / The Quest: Part 2 Q&A

Sat
Feb 21st
2015

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Particle Fever / The Quest

This roundtable will consider the mental and personal qualities that drive scientific and intellectual quests for discovery, beyond curiosity and courage, in the face of the known and the unknown.

Sat
Apr 25th
2015

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The Changing Nature of Free Will

This roundtable will examine how advances in genetics and neuroscience, along with ideas from quantum mechanics, are reshaping conceptions of free will, individual choice, and their implications for law.

Sat
Mar 14th
2015

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Curiosity

This roundtable will explore curiosity as both a driving force of knowledge and a source of existential and ethical inquiry, examining how lives shaped by curiosity give meaning across disciplines and perspectives.

Sat
Jan 24th
2015

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Music to Whose Ears II: Embodied Cognition

This roundtable will examine the role of the body in musical experience, perception, and cognition through dialogue between artists and scientists.

Sat
Feb 7th
2015

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The Sublime Experience

This roundtable will examine the sublime across visual arts, music, religious experience, and nature, considering how philosophy, psychology, and neuroscience illuminate the experience and its relation to pleasure and awe.

Podcast: The Helix Center

Epigenetics at Work

Human and Nonhuman Minds: Continuities and Discontinuities

Trauma and its Aftereffects, Part I: War and Genocide

The Mind of a Child

Particle Fever / The Quest: Part 2 Q&A

Particle Fever / The Quest

The Changing Nature of Free Will

Curiosity

Music to Whose Ears II: Embodied Cognition

The Sublime Experience