Nancy G. Kanwisher | |
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Born | 1958 (age 65–66) |
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 |
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 a researcher 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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