The neuroscience of inclusion
A live, public webinar on the Neuroscience of Inclusion was held in June 2022. Video recordings are available on this page in English, French, and American Sign Language. A reference list of sources cited in the presentation is also available on this page.
This 45-minute video provides an introduction to three main topics at the intersection of neuroscience and inclusion:
Cognitive diversity: how our brains each work differently, and action you can take to build spaces where all brains can thrive.
The neuroscience of bias: research showing unconscious bias happening in the brain, and corresponding strategies to mitigate the effects of bias in the workplace.
Belonging and the brain: how inclusion positively impacts the brain, and corresponding strategies for building belonging in the workplace.
English video
Vidéo en français
L'interprétation en français parlé est fournie par Myrlène Metellus.
American Sign Language video
American Sign Language interpretation provided by Mary Ann Decasa.
Reference list
Sources cited in the webinar are listed here in the order they appear in the webinar.
Zarnhofer et al., 2013. Individual differences in solving arithmetic word problems.
Zarnhofer et al., 2012. The influence of verbalization on the pattern of cortical activation during mental arithmetic.
Lai et al., 2019. Brain gray matter correlates of extraversion: A systematic review and meta-analysis of voxel-based morphometry studies.
Karpati et al., 2017. Dance and music share gray matter structural correlates.
DeCusatis, 2008. Creating, growing and sustaining efficient innovation teams.
Reynolds & Lewis, 2017. Teams solve problems faster when they’re more cognitively diverse.
Menold and Jablokow, 2018. Exploring the effects of cognitive style diversity and self-efficacy beliefs on final design attributes in student design teams.
Aggarwal and Woolley, 2019. Team creativity, cognition, and cognitive style diversity.
Meissner and Wulf, 2017. The effect of cognitive diversity on the illusion of control bias in strategic decisions: An experimental investigation.
Hinton, 2017. Implicit stereotypes and the predictive brain: Cognition and culture in “biased” person perception. Bar-Haim et al., 2006. Nature and nurture in own-race face processing.
Ito & Urland, 2003. Race and gender on the brain: Electrocortical measures of attention to the race and gender of multiply categorizable individuals.
Mai, Grootswagers, & Carlson, 2019. In search of consciousness: Examining the temporal dynamics of conscious visual perception using MEG time-series data.
Golby et al., 2001. Differential responses in the fusiform region to same-race and other-race faces.
Feng et al., 2011. The other face of the other-race effect: An fMRI investigation of the other-race face categorization advantage.
Cao et al., 2015. Racial bias in neural response to others’ pain is reduced with other-race contact.
Contreras-Huerta et al., 2013. Racial bias in neural empathic responses to pain.
Johnson et al., 2016. If there’s only one woman in your candidate pool, there’s statistically no chance she’ll be hired.
Williams & Multhaup, 2018. For women and minorities to get ahead, managers must assign work fairly.
Qualtrics. 2021 employee experience trends.
BetterUp, 2019. The value of belonging at work: The business case for investing in workplace inclusion.
Tabibnia et al., 2008. The sunny side of fairness.
Izuma et al., 2008. Processing of social and monetary rewards in the human striatum.
Decety et al., 2004. The neural bases of cooperation and competition: an fMRI investigation.
Eisenberger et a., 2007. Neural pathways link social support to attenuated neuroendocrine stress responses.
Brown et al., 2015. Employee trust and workplace performance.0
Cui et al., 2015: Trust in the workplace: The role of social interaction diversity in the community and in the workplace.
Krueger et al., 2007. Neural correlates of trust.
