Roger
Bingham
ROGER BINGHAM, director of The Science Network, is a member
of the research faculty at the Center for Brain and Cognition, University
of California, San Diego, focusing on theoretical evolutionary neuroscience.
He is the co-author of The
Origin of Minds: Evolution, Uniqueness, and the New Science of the
Self that describes a new evolutionary
model of the mind. Previously, he was a visiting
associate in biology at the California Institute of Technology, and
the creator and host of award-winning PBS science programs on evolutionary
psychology and cognitive neuroscience.
Bingham’s last PBS series was the critically acclaimed The
Human Quest.
Bingham was Creator and Executive Producer of the KCET-TV
(PBS/Los Angeles) Science and Society Unit. His programs—notably
the Frontiers of the Mind series (including The Addicted Brain, The
Sexual Brain, The Time of our Lives and Inside Information)—have
been broadcast from Australia to Zimbabwe, in languages from Hebrew
to Mandarin Chinese, and are used in high schools and universities
worldwide. He has received many honors for his communication of science
- including the National Magazine Award, seven Los Angeles Emmy awards,
the American Psychological Association Award for Excellence in Television,
and the Writer’s Guild of America award for Outstanding Documentary
Script. Bingham may be the only member of the Society for Neuroscience
who is also a member of the Directors' Guild of America (DGA) and the
American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA).
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