Nancy Kanwisher
Nancy Kanwisher is a cognitive neuroscientist and professor at MIT known for identifying functionally specialized regions of the human cortex, including the fusiform face area. Her fMRI research maps how the brain represents faces, places, and other categories.
Other materials
- Cortical Face-Selective Responses Emerge Early in Human Infancy (research)
- Face perception: domain specific, not process specific (research)
- Perception of face parts and face configurations: an FMRI study (research)
- The fusiform face area subserves face perception, not generic within-category identification (research)
- The fusiform face area: a module in human extrastriate cortex specialized for face perception (research)