Speakers Rebecca Saxe: Cognitive neuroscientist
Rebecca Saxe studies how we think about other people's thoughts. At the Saxelab at MIT, she uses fMRI to identify what happens in our brains when we consider the motives, passions and beliefs of others.
Why you should listen to her:
While still a graduate student, Rebecca Saxe made a breakthrough discovery: There's a specific region in our brain that becomes active when we contemplate the workings of other minds. Now, at MIT's Saxelab, she and her team have been further exploring her grad-school finding, exploring how it may help us understand conditions such as autism.
As Saxe delves into the complexities of social cognition, this young scientist is working toward revealing the enigma of human minds interacting.
"One of the most astonishing discoveries in the field of human cognitive neuroscience."Nancy Kanwisher, the Ellen Swallow Richards Professor of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT
Quotes by Rebecca Saxe
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“Although we human adults are really good at understanding other minds, we weren’t always that way. It takes children a long time to break into the system.”
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Rebecca Saxe: How we read each other's minds
- 16:51 Posted: Sep 2009
Rebecca Saxe on the Web
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Conferences
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- TEDGlobal 2009