Lecture 1.1: Nancy Kanwisher - Human Cognitive Neuroscience

MIT RES.9-003 Brains, Minds and Machines Summer Course, Summer 2015
Instructor: Nancy Kanwisher

Functional architecture of the human brain. Historical evolution of theories and empirical methods revealing areas of functional specialization for mental processes. Introduction to fMRI.

License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA

[billywhite]

Man, Nancy is really a treasure. she really has a way of bringing out the Cool in this subject. Thanks Dr. Kanwisher and thanks MIT!

[moonxx]

I love neuroscience thankyou so much for free lectures !!

[HitomiAyumu]

You're an amazing teacher Nancy. I don't know a lick of psychology yet I understood you very easily.

[colza]

I'm very interested in Cognitive Neuroscience and now spending time studying it. However, after watching this video, I realised I need to study some more pre-material before fully understanding this course. If anyone can give me some info or link, I will really appreciate. I'll also keep googling to see what I can find. Thanks!

[SachinYadav-wtcf]

Thank you MIT,
can anyone tells me where these students talk about these lectures?

[JaysonSunshine]

At 24:34, I would somewhat disagree with Nancy that no part of the brain can ever be sufficient. I think we should define a new concept, sufficient-given-input, i.e. if you have proper inputs supplied to the module/region, is that module/region sufficient for process X.

[saharusa]

My question is: whether s worth to get a master in Cog Neuroscience?
My background is in healthcare IT but i want to know whether the ms in CN provide better and easier career development?

[muhammedcagrkartal]

is there a 2021 or 2020 version of this

[thaddsreal]

Dr. Kanwisher, I truly hope this gets to you. I listen to you summarizing your work and expressing what irritated you and one thing comes to mind. Your privilege and budget allow you to be so detailed in your research. Its not that the rest of us from underserved communities, do not have your resources to express ourselves. We can't even get 150k to finish the masterplan for an African American 3 year ag and tech college to bring our youth through based on heuristic techniques because we can't afford to do what you have a budget to do. Its difficult to explain to the rural kids why they don't have a building to set up a microscope to look at our river water. My friend, your privilage tells me you have nothing to gain from this comment and we have everything to lose for using our noodle. Yet you gain for having the overwhelming privilege you do. What good is your work if rural kids don't understand their development.

[mayc]

The "respectable society" back then was very closed minded.

[SebastianBeresniewicz]

Great information but the judgementally towards claims she doesn't agree with takes away from her credibility. calling something stupid or idiotic doesn't tell me anything informative other than you don't agree with it and it triggers an emotional response that you cannot control the knee-jerk reaction to

[bzgtzir]

Unacceptable behavior calling someone idiotic, stopped watching there.