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What Kinds of Minds and Brains Do We Have?

Nancy’s TED talk: A neural portrait of the human mind

This talk describes brain imaging research conducted over the last 15 years that has discovered a number of regions of the human brain, each of which conducts a remarkably specific mental function, from perceiving visual motion, to understanding language, to thinking about…
1.1 – Nancy Tells a Story to Introduce her New Course: The Human Brain [updated 2019]

[Video has been updated from Spring 2019 class] Dear Viewers of these Videos- These lectures are from my undergrad course The Human Brain, currently being taught in the spring of 2018 at MIT. Lectures will be added as the course proceeds.…
Special Parts of the Human Brain (Nancy at the Museum of Science, Boston)

Our brains are wired with specific regions for face-recognition, color perception, language, music, and even for thinking about how other people think. MIT neuroscientist Nancy Kanwisher reveals the techniques used to localize brain activity and to track its development from infancy. Produced…
Functional Imaging of the Human Brain: A Window into the Organization of the Human Mind

On June 19, 2019, Prof. Nancy Kanwisher gave a talk about a wide range of aspects of the human brain, how it works and how it is studied to a group of visiting summer research students.
Modular Design of the Human Brain

This talk discusses “modular design”, the idea that the mind and brain are composed of distinct components, each carrying out a different function. I discuss what the idea is, why it makes sense from an engineering perspective, the controversial nature of the…
Humans are a highly social species

Perceiving, understanding and interacting with other people is at the core of what it means to be human, and brain regions supporting different aspects of social cognition take up a large area of the cortex. Related Videos The Neuroanatomy Lesson(Director’s Cut) Discovering…
The Neuroanatomy Lesson

MIT neuroscientist Nancy Kanwisher bares all to teach neuroanatomy. Related Videos Watch Nancy’s brain get zapped with transcranial magnetic stimulation Nancy’s TED talk: A neural portrait of the human mind What happens when you stimulate the face area?
The Neuroanatomy Lesson (Director’s Cut)

With the help of neuro artist & grad student Rosa Lafer-Sousa, Nancy goes to ludicrous extremes to show you where in the head some of the functionally specific brain regions lie. Related Videos Nancy’s TED talk: A neural portrait of the human…
Functional Specificity in the Human Brain: A Very Brief History

Nancy describes the history of attempts to localize functionally specific regions in the brain, from the 18th century onwards.
Functional Specificity: What it means, and what it doesn’t

Nancy discusses what it means for a particular cognitive function to “live” in a specific area of the brain.

How Can You Study the Human Mind and Brain

Does stimulation of the face area change the appearance of faces?

In this astonishing video from Josef Parvizi and Kalanit Grill-Spector at Stanford, you meet a man who has electrodes right on his face area (for medical reasons), and he tells us what he sees when that region of his brain is stimulated.
1.1 – Nancy Tells a Story to Introduce her New Course: The Human Brain [updated 2019]

[Video has been updated from Spring 2019 class] Dear Viewers of these Videos- These lectures are from my undergrad course The Human Brain, currently being taught in the spring of 2018 at MIT. Lectures will be added as the course proceeds.…
Functional Imaging of the Human Brain: A Window into the Organization of the Human Mind

On June 19, 2019, Prof. Nancy Kanwisher gave a talk about a wide range of aspects of the human brain, how it works and how it is studied to a group of visiting summer research students.
Carvalho-Heineken Talk at Cog Sci 2019: Functional Imaging of the Human Brain: A Window
Does stimulation of the face area change the appearance of things that are not faces?
What Happens when you Stimulate the Face Area?

Related Videos How good are we at face recognition Discovering a face specific region with fMRI Watch Nancy’s brain get zapped with transcranial magnetic stimulation
Many ways to understand a mental process

Cognition can be studied in many different ways, including introspection, computational theory, measuring behavior, monitoring neural activity, and even disrupting neural activity. Related Videos What you can learn from studying behavior What is fMRI? Watch Nancy’s brain get zapped with transcranial magnetic…
What you can learn from studying behavior

This talk uses face perception as a case study to illustrate the power of low-tech behavioral methods; observations from reaction and time and accuracy in face perception tasks reveal “signatures” of face recognition (inversion effects, composite effects, part-whole effects) that yield fundamental…
How do you ask a preverbal infant what she can see?

A simple but powerful method called “habituation of looking time” enables developmental psychologists to discover what a preverbal infant sees, understands, and expects Related Videos What is fMRI? How early does face perception develop in childhood? What is the role of experience…
What is fMRI?

The bare basics on functional MRI, a noninvasive method for measuring neural activity in the human brain with (almost) millimeter resolution. Related Videos Watch Nancy’s brain get zapped with transcranial magnetic stimulation Explaining a very simple fMRI experiment Watch a very simple…
Watch Nancy’s brain get zapped with transcranial magnetic stimulation

Measuring neural activity (with fMRI, MEG, ERPs, etc) cannot tell you which brain regions or neural responses are necessary for a given aspect of perception or cognition. To find out if a region is necessary, you have to mess with it. One…

Face Perception

Does stimulation of the face area change the appearance of faces?

In this astonishing video from Josef Parvizi and Kalanit Grill-Spector at Stanford, you meet a man who has electrodes right on his face area (for medical reasons), and he tells us what he sees when that region of his brain is stimulated.
Shortcomings of human face recognition

In some situations, humans are surprisingly bad at face recognition. Related Videos Individual differences in face recognition and developmental prosopagnosia What is the role of experience in the development of face recognition?
Does stimulation of the face area change the appearance of things that are not faces?
What Happens when you Stimulate the Face Area?

Related Videos How good are we at face recognition Discovering a face specific region with fMRI Watch Nancy’s brain get zapped with transcranial magnetic stimulation
Individual differences in face recognition and developmental prosopagnosia

People differ markedly from each other in their face recognition ability. Face recognition ability is heritable and is not correlated with IQ, and some otherwise normal, perfectly smart people are so bad at face recognition they routinely fail to recognize close friends…
How good are we at face recognition

Until very recently, humans were much better at face recognition than any computer vision system. But all of a sudden computers seem to be nearly matching human performance. But might we still be better than computers in more real-world face recognition tasks?…
What you can learn from studying behavior

This talk uses face perception as a case study to illustrate the power of low-tech behavioral methods; observations from reaction and time and accuracy in face perception tasks reveal “signatures” of face recognition (inversion effects, composite effects, part-whole effects) that yield fundamental…
How early does face perception develop in childhood?

It was once thought that face recognition takes abut ten years to develop fully, but more recent research shows that adult-like face recognition is present at the earliest ages scientists have been able to test it. Related Videos What is the role…
What is the role of experience in the development of face recognition?

Experience with faces does affect our face recognition abilities, but not in the way you might expect. Related Videos Discovering a face specific regionwith fMRI How early does face perception develop in childhood?
Discovering a face specific region with fMRI

Here I describe the basic fMRI evidence for the fusiform face area, how we test alternative hypotheses to face specificity, and the functional region of interest method. Related Videos What happens when you stimulate the face area? An important challenge to the…

fMRI: Imaging of the Human Brain at Work

1.1 – Nancy Tells a Story to Introduce her New Course: The Human Brain [updated 2019]

[Video has been updated from Spring 2019 class] Dear Viewers of these Videos- These lectures are from my undergrad course The Human Brain, currently being taught in the spring of 2018 at MIT. Lectures will be added as the course proceeds.…
Carvalho-Heineken Talk at Cog Sci 2019: Functional Imaging of the Human Brain: A Window
What is fMRI?

The bare basics on functional MRI, a noninvasive method for measuring neural activity in the human brain with (almost) millimeter resolution. Related Videos Watch Nancy’s brain get zapped with transcranial magnetic stimulation Explaining a very simple fMRI experiment Watch a very simple…
Explaining a very simple fMRI experiment

The bare bones of the design and analysis of a very simple fMRI experiment, and some basic terminology. Related Videos Watch a very simple fMRI experiment Discovering a face specific region with fMRI A few tips for critically evaluating fMRI studies
Watch a very simple fMRI experiment

Watch my lab tech Jenelle Feather scan me on that very simple experiment while course TA (and MIT graduate student) Hilary Richardson narrates. Related Videos Discovering a face specific region with fMRI Explaining a very simple fMRI experiment
Discovering a face specific region with fMRI

Here I describe the basic fMRI evidence for the fusiform face area, how we test alternative hypotheses to face specificity, and the functional region of interest method. Related Videos What happens when you stimulate the face area? An important challenge to the…
An important challenge to the specificity of the fusiform face area

In a paper published in 2001 Jim Haxby made the important point that a region of the brain can contain information about classes of stimuli that it does not respond to above baseline, if the pattern of response across voxels in that…
Why Use Functional Regions of Interest (fROIs)?

Nancy discusses how we can use fROIs to explore human cognition, and why it provides unique advantages over other functional imaging methods.
Functionally Characterizing Regions with Response Profiles

How do we figure out not just what a region likes (i.e., responds to most), but what it does? One way is to measure its response to a lot of other kinds of stimuli, that is measure its “response profile”. Related Videos…
Functional MRI adaptation

How can we tell what information is represented in each voxel or region? Even if the mean response of the voxel is the same to the two kinds of stimuli, different neural populations in the voxel may respond to the two stimuli,…
Multiple Voxel Pattern Analysis

Multiple voxel pattern analysis (MVPA) is the other method (besdies fMRI adaptation) that enables us to figure out what information is repesented in a given region. If the pattern of response across voxels in that region is stably different for one kind…
A few tips for critically evaluating fMRI studies

Here I give a few tips for evaluating published fMRI studies by pointing out three common flaws in imaging studies. Related Videos Discovering a face specific region with fMRI Explaining a very simple fMRIexperiment What is fMRI?

Guest Lectures

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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