Kavli Carnegie Capitol Evening with Nancy Kanwisher
Kavli Carnegie Capitol Evening with Nancy Kanwisher
Face Value: How the Brain Shapes Human Connection
Join us on Wednesday, October 29, for an exciting conversation with 2024 Kavli Prize in Neuroscience recipient Nancy Kanwisher. Dr. Kanwisher's lab asks, what is the nature of the human mind? Using brain imaging to look for regions of the brain associated with aspects of the mind, she has identified cortical regions that are selectively engaged in the perception of faces, places, and bodies, and other regions specialized for uniquely human functions including music, language, and thinking about other people’s thoughts.
Attend online or in person at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Library in Washington, DC.
Speaker Bio
Nancy Kanwisher is the Walter A. Rosenblith Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences and a founding member of the McGovern Institute at MIT. She joined the MIT faculty in 1997, and prior to that, served on the faculty at UCLA and Harvard University. She is well-known for her role as a mentor to young neuroscientists, and cites her own mentor, MIT professor and cognitive psychologist Molly Potter, as the reason for her successful career in neuroscience. She hosts a website with short lectures for lay audiences about human cognitive neuroscience and her undergraduate course, “The Human Brain”, is freely available to the public through MIT OpenCourseWare.
To learn more about Nancy Kanwisher, read her biography here
The event will be moderated by Frank Sesno, Director of Strategic Initiatives and Professor at the School of Media and Public Affairs, and as the Executive Director of the George Washington University Alliance for a Sustainable Future. The Alliance is a broad pan-university initiative to amplify the university’s teaching, research, convening and impact relating to global challenges around climate change, environmental justice, and sustainability. Sesno is also a founder of PlanetForward.org, a multi-platform project that brings students and experts together to examine sustainable innovations that "move the planet forward."
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