Keynote Lecture: Nancy Kanwisher

Tuesday, August 12, 11:30 am – 12:30 pm, Room A0.01, Overflow Rooms A1.02, A1.03, C1.03

Nancy KanwisherNancy Kanwisher, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Walter A. Rosenblith Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience

Nancy Kanwisher received her B.S. and Ph.D. from MIT, working with Professor Molly Potter. After a postdoc as a MacArthur Fellow in Peace and International Security, and a second postdoc in the lab of Anne Treisman at UC Berkeley, she held faculty positions at UCLA and then Harvard, before returning to MIT in 1997, where she is now an Investigator at the McGovern Institute for Brain Research, and a faculty member in the Department of Brain & Cognitive Sciences. Kanwisher uses brain imaging and other methods to discover the functional organization of the human brain as a window into the architecture of the mind. Kanwisher has received the Troland Award, the Golden Brain Award, the Carvalho-Heineken Prize, the Kavli Prize in Neuroscience, the António Champalimaud Vision Award, and a MacVicar Faculty Fellow teaching Award from MIT, and she is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. You can view the lectures from her undergraduate course The Human Brain here: https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/brain-and-cognitive-sciences/9-13-the-human-brain-spring-2019/