"Neuroscience and the Humanities"

Researchers from the humanities and the neurosciences in dialogue at the Goethe-Institut, Washington DC

From left to right: Deborah Jensen, Michael Platt, Lasana Harris, Oliver Lubrich, and Arthur Jacobs Photo: LoE/hh

The interdisciplinary dialogue between researchers from the humanities and the neurosciences has grown and lead to fruitful cooperation – for example, here at the Cluster Languages of Emotion. The panel discussion, held November 12, 2011 at the Goethe-Institut in Washington, DC, addressed issues related to such cooperation. Psychologist Arthur Jacobs (FU Berlin and the Cluster Languages of Emotion) and the literary scholar Oliver Lubrich (University of Bern and Cluster Languages of Emotion) reported their experiences and first study results in common projects as "Affective and aesthetic processes in reading". They also joined with Lasana Harris (Duke Institute for Brain Sciences) and Michael Platt (Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, Duke University) to discuss perspectives on such interdisciplinary work. The event was presented by Deborah Jenson, the co-convenor of the Neurohumanities Research Group at Duke University, Durham, NC.

"Neuroscience & the Humanities - An American-German Conversion" was a satellite event of the Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience (SfN), Nov. 12-16, 2011 in Washington DC. It was jointly organized by the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG), the German Center for Research and Innovation (GCRI) and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH).

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