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Professor Nancy Kanwisher FBA

The functional organization of the human brain, as a window into the architecture of the mind, studied with functional MRI and other methods of cognitive neuroscience
Fellow type
International Fellow
Year elected
2017
Sections
Psychology
Website
https://mcgovern.mit.edu/principal-investigators/nancy-kanwisher

Current post

Walter A Rosenblith Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, and Investigator, McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Professor Daniel Freeman FBA

Clinical psychology; mistrust, paranoia, and delusions; psychological treatments for psychosis; virtual reality in understanding and treating mental health conditions

Professor Daniel Freeman FBA

Professor Stanislas Dehaene FBA

Experimental psychology and cognitive neuroscience of human higher cognitive functions: language, reading, mathematics; brain mechanisms of conscious versus non-conscious processing

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Professor Martin Eimer FBA

Cognitive and neural mechanisms of visual attention and working memory; Integration of attention across sensory modalities; Face perception and recognition and their impairment in prosopagnosia

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