Bringing Indigenous ways of knowing to neuroscience

University of British Columbia researchers, including IBI Chair Dr. Judy Illes, are working with Indigenous scholars and communities to bring Indigenous perspectives into brain science. In a paper published this week in Nature, Dr. Judy Illes, and IBI Crosscultural Working Group Lead, Dr. Melissa Perreault (University of Guelph), explore approaches to integrating Indigenous knowledge with Western approaches in neuroscience. The paper is a product of the Crosscultural Working Group of the International Brain Initiative. It was also informed, in part, by the work of former UBC graduate student, Louise Harding.

Read the News Release: https://news.ubc.ca/2025/02/two-eyed-seeing-in-neuroscience/

Read the Nature article here: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08437-2