Bruno Cabral

Bruno Cabral is currently a fourth year student of Philosophy in The University of Chicago College. He was born in Sao Paulo, Brazil and moved to the United States at a very early age. Over time, Bruno has worked in the Birth Certificate Registry at The Consulate General of Brazil in New York City, as an editor for Revista Amanha in Porto Alegre, Brazil, as a consultant for Burgeon Education in Hangzhou, China and as a fry-cook for the Westchester Country Club.

Bruno has a wide array of intellectual interests that range from eschatological theology and futurology to cryptography and computation. He is an active musician who practices two-handed guitar tapping, drumming, throat singing, noise manipulation and free improvisation. He has also produced several commissioned mixed-media artworks that have involved contact microphones, engraved mirrors and lasers.

These multifarious interests have led Bruno to join Howard Nusbaum’s cognitive psychology lab in his third year as an undergraduate and has since then been conducting work on sound symbolism, linguistic auditory processing and attention. His current work investigates the degree to which linguistic encoding facilitates semantic decision-making. Along with this plan of research Bruno also hopes to investigate computer-mediated communication, neuronal population encoding for linguistic abilities as well as the neural substrates of meditation.