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Un retrato neuronal de la mente humana

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La pionera en imágenes cerebrales Nancy Kanwisher, que usa la IRMf para ver la actividad en las regiones del cerebro (a veces del suyo), nos comparte lo que ella y sus colegas han aprendido. El cerebro está hecho tanto de componentes especializados como de una maquinaria de uso general. Otra sorpresa: aún queda mucho por aprender.

La pionera en imágenes cerebrales Nancy Kanwisher, que usa la IRMf para ver la actividad en las regiones del cerebro (a veces del suyo), nos comparte lo que ella y sus colegas han aprendido. El cerebro está hecho tanto de componentes especializados como de una maquinaria de uso general. Otra sorpresa: aún queda mucho por aprender.

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Nancy Kanwisher

Brain researcher

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Using fMRI imaging to watch the human brain at work, Nancy Kanwisher’s team has discovered cortical regions responsible for some surprisingly specific elements of cognition.

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For more information, see my collection of short talks on how scientists actually study the human mind and brain using fMRI and other methods, and what they have learned so far.

Stanley Finger | Oxford University Press, 2001 | Book

Origins of Neuroscience

The idea that the mind and brain are composed of distinct components, each carrying out a different function, goes back at least two centuries to neurologists like Franz Josef Gall and Paul Broca. For a delightful history of the colorful characters of this early era, read this book.

Nancy Kanwisher | PNAS, 2010 | Article

Functional specificity in the human brain: A window into the functional architecture of the mind

See my 2010 PNAS article to read a review of the recent evidence for this view of brain imaging.

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