SCSC was founded on 22 June 2018 in Lisbon (Portugal).
The Journal of Cultural Cognitive Science (published by Springer Nature) is the official journal of the society.
The SCSC organises an annual meeting to bring togetehr our diverse community. Click here for details of past and future meetings
President: Falk Huettig (Nijmegen, Netherlands)
Vice President: Régine Kolinsky (Brussels, Belgium)
Treasurer: Susana Araújo (Lisbon, Portugal)
One World Representative and Director of Communications: Ramesh Mishra (Hyderabad, India)
Diversity Representative: Zohar Eviatar (Haifa, Israel)
Student/Post-doc Representative: Mayur Jartarkar (Goa, India)
Web Representative: Alexis Hervais-Adelman (Zürich, Switzerland)
Sponsoring Representative and Fiscal Council: Thomas Lachmann (Kaiserslautern, Germany)
Chair of the General Assembly: Jon Duñabeitia (Nebrija University, Spain)
Annual Meeting Organiser (2023): Marcus Maia (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
Traditional cognitive science has largely ignored cultural influences on cognition and has also predominantly concentrated on a group of people who are not particularly representative of the world’s population as a whole. Yet, today, we have an increasing amount of empirical and theoretical work that emphasizes cultural and social influences on mind and brain, including through bodily modulations. An increasing number of researchers believe that cognitive science cannot ignore culture as a crucial factor impacting mental processes and brain functioning. A focus on individuals and their experiences in cultural environments has become more and more important. This approach has emerged in all fields that have been associated with cognitive science, from neuroscience to philosophy of mind.
We believe it is indispensable to look at different cultures and diverse participant populations so that we can understand what kind of findings from the mostly Western research body generalize (or not) to diverse populations and across cultures. We want to explore, for example, how cultural inventions like written words, numbers, music, and belief systems shape the mind and brain from the beginning of our lives and through exposure to cultural objects across the lifecycle. We welcome contributions from all these fields of research.This society aims to encourage discussion of the latest developments in the cognitive science of culture, to provide a platform for exchanging ideas, and a network to foster collaborations among interested researchers. We particularly encourage research involving non-WEIRD participant populations. We want to understand the human mind (and not just the minds of Western undergraduates) and how cultural objects (e.g., literacy; religion), including those within culture at macro-level, can shape the human brain and mind. We especially encourage participation by researchers from all parts of the world. Another important aim of the society is public outreach, for instance, to promote the application of research findings for the greater good of humanity.
Carmit Altman (Bar-Ilan University, Israel), [email protected]
Susana Araújo (University of Lisbon, Portugal), [email protected]
Sharon Armon-Lotem (Bar-Ilan University, Israel), [email protected]
Veeky Baths (Bits-Pilani University Goa, India),[email protected]
Michal Ben-Shachar (Bar-Ilan University, Israel), [email protected]
Gal Ben-Yehudah (Open University of Israel), [email protected]
Tali Bitan (University of Haifa, Israel), [email protected]
Silvia Brem (University of Zürich, Switzerland), [email protected]
Sao Luis Castro (University of Porto, Portugal), [email protected]
Peter Daniels (Independent Scholar, US), [email protected]
Tamar Degani (University of Haifa, Israel), [email protected]
Jon Andoni Duñabeitia (Nebrija University, Spain), [email protected]
Zohar Eviatar (University of Haifa, Israel), [email protected]
Laurie Feldman (State University of New York at Albany, US) ,[email protected]
Tânia Fernandes (University of Lisbon, Portugal), [email protected]
Naama Friedmann (Tel Aviv University, Israel), [email protected]
Falk Huettig (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands), [email protected]
Asaid Khateb (University of Haifa, Israel), [email protected]
Régine Kolinsky (Free University of Brussels, Belgium), [email protected]
Hamutal Kreiner (Ruppin Academic Center, Israel), [email protected]
Thomas Lachmann (University of Kaiserslautern, Germany), [email protected]
Nira Mashal (Bar-Ilan University, Israel), [email protected]
Ramesh Mishra (University of Hyderabad, India), [email protected]
José Morais (Free University of Brussels, Belgium), [email protected]
John Myhill (University of Haifa, Israel), [email protected]
Joao Batista Oliveira (Alfa e Beto Institute, Brazil), [email protected]
Prakash Padakannaya (University of Mysore, India), [email protected]
Lekhnath Pathak (Tribhuvan University Kathmandu, Nepal), [email protected]
Orna Peleg (Tel Aviv University, Israel), [email protected]
Manuel Perea (University of Valencia , Spain), [email protected]
Anat Prior (University of Haifa, Israel), [email protected]
Alexandra Reis (University of Algarve, Portugal), [email protected]
Dave Roberts (Independent Scholar, Togo), [email protected]
Elinor Saiegh-Haddad (Bar-Ilan University, Israel), [email protected]
David Share (University of Haifa, Israel), [email protected]
Mila Schwartz (University of Haifa, Israel), [email protected]