Lectures from Nancy’s New Course: The Human Brain

1.1 - Nancy Tells a Story to Introduce her New Course: The Human Brain [updated 2019]
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1.2 - How Can We Study the Human Mind and Brain? Marr’s Level’s of Analysis
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1.3 - What this Course will Cover
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1.4 - Goals of the Course
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2.1 - Face Recognition: What are the Questions?
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2.2 - Face Recognition at the level of Computational Theory (Lite)
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2.3 - Face Recognition: Clues from Introspection
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2.4 - Face Recognition: Clues from Behavioral Experiments - The Face Inversion Effect
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2.5 - Face Recognition: Clues from Behavioral Experiments - Holistic Processing
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2.6 - Recap of previous lecture
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2.7 - Face Recognition: Behavioral evidence against invariant representations of unfamiliar faces. (Jenkins et al., 2011)
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2.8 - Recap on what we have learned about face recognition from behavioral experiments
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2.9 - Event-Related Potentials (ERPs)
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2.10 - Magnetoencephalography (MEG)
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2.11 - fMRI
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2.12 - Intracranial Recording
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2.13 - Why We Need Disruption Methods in Cognitive Neuroscience (Prosopagnosia)
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2.14 - Double Dissociations (Prosopagnosia vs. Agnosia)
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2.15 - TMS
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2.16 - Intercranial Electrical Stimulation
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2.17 - Recap: Questions about face perception and the human methods that can address them
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2.18 - On the use of Animals in Cognitive Neuroscience Research
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2.19 - The Face System In Macaques
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3.1 - Why study Vision, and What is Vision for?
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3.2 - The Retina
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3.3 - Receptive Fields of Retinal Ganglion Cells
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3.4 - LGN & V1
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3.5 - Retinotopic Maps
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3.6 - Orientation Selectivity
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3.7 - Ocular Dominance Columns
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3.8 - Beyond V1: Lots of Visual Areas
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3.9 - Example: Visual Motion Area MT
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4.1 - Evidence from brain damage for the two pathways
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4.2 - Shape processing in The Ventral Visual Pathway (LOC)
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4.3 - Category Selectivity in the VVP
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4.4 - Haxby's Challenge to Category Selectivity and MVPA
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4.5 - A Response to Haxby’s Challenge
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4.6 - Neural Decoding
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5.1 - Feats of Animal Navigation
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5.2 - The Fundamental Problems of Navigation
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5.3 - The Parahippocampal Place Area Studied with fMRI
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5.4 - Causal tests of the role of the PPA
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5.5 - The Broader Scene Navigation Network
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6.1 - Recap of the Ventral Visual Pathway, Topographic Disorientation, and the PPA
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6.2 - The Navigation Network PPA, RSC, & OPA
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6.3 - Hippocampus and Place Cells
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6.4 - Head Direction Cells, Grid Cells, and Border Cells
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6.5 - Reorientation, the Geometric Module, and Informational Encapsulation
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6.6 - What are Place Cells doing during Reorientation
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6.7 - Coding for the Time and Location of Remembered Events in the Hippocampus
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6.8 - Using Grid & Place Cells for Much More than Space
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6.9 - Recap
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7.1 - Which aspects of mental structure are innate and which are learned
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7.2 - Basic Facts about Brain Development
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7.3 - What we need to know to understand development
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7.4 - Face Detection in Newborns
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7.5 - Face Discrimination in Newborns
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7.6 - Perceptual Narrowing in Infant Face Perception
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7.7 - Sugita’s Face Deprivation Behavioral Study
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7.8 - The Development of Face Processing Regions of Cortex
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7.9 - So, what if anything is innate about face perception
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8.1 - Recap of last lecture
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8.2 - Diffusion imaging & diffusion tractography
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8.3 - Connectivity fingerprints in adults
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8.4 - Connectivity as a constraint on development: rewired ferrets (Sur)
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8.5 - The visual word form area: a cortical region whose selectivity depends on individual experience
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8.6 - Connectivity fingerprints predict the location of the VWFA (Saygin et al 2016)
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8.7 - Kant and Innate Representations of Space in Rodents
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8.8 - Reorientation in Chicks Reared without Geometric Experience
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8.9 - Recap: what cortical selectivities are innate?
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8.10 - Could brain organization be different: a) after early brain damage, or b) from very different experience?
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8.11 - Can the brain reorganize after brain damage?
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8.12 - Functional reorganization in congenital blindness
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