1997 · Journal of Neuroscience
The Fusiform Face Area: A Module in Human Extrastriate Cortex Specialized for Face Perception
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Nancy Gail Kanwisher FBA is the Walter A Rosenblith Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a researcher at the McGovern Institute for Brain Research. She studies the neural and cognitive mechanisms underlying human visual perception and cognition.
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459 papers in total1998 · Nature
A cortical representation of the local visual environment
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2003 · NeuroImage
People thinking about thinking peopleThe role of the temporo-parietal junction in “theory of mind”
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2001 · Science
A Cortical Area Selective for Visual Processing of the Human Body
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2006 · Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
The fusiform face area: a cortical region specialized for the perception of faces
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2001 · Vision Research
The lateral occipital complex and its role in object recognition
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