"Face Blindness: When everyone is a stranger"

The fusiform face area: A module in human extrastriate cortex specialized for face perception

Electrical stimulation of human fusiform face-selective regions distorts face perception

The functional organization of the ventral visual pathway in humans

A cortical representation of the local visual environment

Functional analysis of human MT and related visual cortical areas using magnetic resonance imaging

A cortical area selective for visual processing of the human body

Cortical pitch regions in humans respond primarily to resolved harmonics and are located in specific tonotopic regions of anterior auditory cortex

Functional specificity for high-level linguistic processing in the human brain

People thinking about thinking people: The role of the temporo-parietal junction in 'theory of mind'

Domain specificity in visual cortex

Broad domain generality in focal regions of frontal and parietal cortex

Beyond intuition and instinct blindness: toward an evolutionarily rigorous cognitive science

CLARITY for mapping the nervous system

Voice-sensitive regions in the dog and human brain are revealed by comparative fMRI

ナンシー・カンウィッシャー: 脳の神経が描く私達の思考

脳の神経が描く私達の思考

脳画像のパイオニア、ナンシー・カンウィッシャーは、fMRIで主に自分の脳の各領域で起こる活動の画像を撮り、彼女の同僚と共に研究した結果 — 私たちの脳は、非常に特殊に分化した領域と、汎用の機能を持つ組織とで成っている — という発見を、このトークで私達と共有します。驚く事に、それでも脳には未知の課題が多く残されているのです。

The human brain is made up of specialized regions, each finely tuned to tackle different tasks, from recognizing faces to understanding language. A striking example is prosopagnosia, where damage to one small brain area erases the ability to recognize faces but spares other functions. Modern imaging reveals both highly specialized neural 'tools' and broad, flexible systems working together. Science is just beginning to map this complex landscape, with many mysteries still unexplored.