To better find out how we think, an innovative institute has vaulted disciplinary divides. What goes on in our heads is fundamentally interdisciplinary. And you have the mind, the higher functions of perception, consciousness, memory, creativity, and intellection.
Anatomy meets cognition meets psychology, in a continuous cranial seminar.
In the mid-1980s, a group of men at Hopkins led by Steven Muller, then president, and Vernon Mountcastle, now professor emeritus of neuroscience, met to discuss the accelerating breakthroughs in the study of the brain. Many suggestions were made by people, largely pertaining to increasing the size and efficiency of their separate enterprises. I made the statement that this wasn't the way to go, that there's a new wave in brain science. I described what I thought would be an ideal solution. It turns out that we are living in a time when we are learning a tremendous amount about the brain, and we are in the position to also learn more about how the mind works.