Name: A neural portrait of the human mind
Uploaded: 2014-10-02T01:01:00Z
Duration: 17 min 31 s
Description: Brain imaging pioneer Nancy Kanwisher, who uses fMRI scans to see activity in brain regions (often her own), shares what she and her colleagues have learned: The brain is made up of both highly specialized components and general-purpose "machinery." Another surprise: There's so much left to learn.

"Face Blindness: When everyone is a stranger"

The fusiform face area: A module in human extrastriate cortex specialized for face perception

Electrical stimulation of human fusiform face-selective regions distorts face perception

The functional organization of the ventral visual pathway in humans

A cortical representation of the local visual environment

Functional analysis of human MT and related visual cortical areas using magnetic resonance imaging

A cortical area selective for visual processing of the human body

Cortical pitch regions in humans respond primarily to resolved harmonics and are located in specific tonotopic regions of anterior auditory cortex

Functional specificity for high-level linguistic processing in the human brain

People thinking about thinking people: The role of the temporo-parietal junction in 'theory of mind'

Domain specificity in visual cortex

Broad domain generality in focal regions of frontal and parietal cortex

Beyond intuition and instinct blindness: toward an evolutionarily rigorous cognitive science

CLARITY for mapping the nervous system

Voice-sensitive regions in the dog and human brain are revealed by comparative fMRI

Brain imaging pioneer Nancy Kanwisher, who uses fMRI scans to see activity in brain regions (often her own), shares what she and her colleagues have learned: The brain is made up of both highly specialized components and general-purpose "machinery." Another surprise: There's so much left to learn.

Nancy Kanwisher: A neural portrait of the human mind

A neural portrait of the human mind

Functional MRI revolutionizes our understanding, highlighting areas in our brain dedicated to faces, places, and even others' thoughts.

Exploring the brain's complex architecture reveals specialized regions for face recognition, proving its intricate specialization.

Stimulating the face area in the brain alters perception, confirming its critical role in how we recognize others' faces.

brain

visualizations

neuroscience

TED Stage Talk