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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.
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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.…
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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.
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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
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
