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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