Nancy Kanwisher
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Nancy Gail Kanwisher FBA (born 1958)[1] is the Walter A Rosenblith Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an investigator at the McGovern Institute for Brain Research. She studies the neural and cognitive mechanisms underlying human visual perception and cognition.[2]
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Nancy G. Kanwisher | |
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Born | 1958 (age 65ā66) |
Nationality | American |
Alma mater | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Known for | Fusiform face area |
Awards | Golden Brain Award Heineken Prize |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Cognitive psychology |
Institutions | UCLA Harvard University Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Thesis | Repetition blindness: type recognition without token individuation (1986) |
Doctoral advisor | Mary C. Potter |
Doctoral students | Frank Tong |
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