Charles Whitehead

Charles Whitehead

Charles Whitehead is interested in integrating cognitive neuroscience with social anthropology. Following twenty years as Creative Director of an advertising agency, he gained his MSc in Social Anthropology at University College London, followed by a PhD in anthropology and neuroscience in 2003. He has published more than fifty papers, chapters, and articles on neuroscience, anthropology, consciousness, and related topics, and has presented regularly at international conferences on consciousness, psychology, and human behaviour. He teaches anthropology at Westminster University and investigates brain processes underlying social displays, mainly at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging at UCL.

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