[SEMCO] Special Seminar Sponsored by Falmouth STEM Boosters and WHOI Information Office on August 17

[Joanne Tromp]

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> photo courtesy Justin Knight
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> "Functional Imaging of the Human Brain as a Window into the Mind"
> Nancy Kanwisher, MIT
> Public lecture sponsored by the Falmouth STEM Boosters and the WHOI 
> Information Office
> Wednesday, August 17
> 7:30 - 8:30 PM
> WHOI’s Redfield Auditorium
> 45 Water Street, Woods Hole, MA 02543
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> Join Dr. Nancy Kanwisher, Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at MIT 
> and Investigator at MIT’s McGovern Institute for Brain Research, as 
> she shares striking new understandings of the human brain.  Some of 
> these findings were presented in a recent New York TImes article, “New 
> Ways Into the Brain’s Music Room.”
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> Twenty-five years ago with the invention fMRI it became possible to 
> image neural activity in the normal human brain.  Many regions have 
> been shown to carry out highly specific mental functions, like the 
> perception of faces, speech sounds, and music, and even very abstract 
> mental functions like understanding a sentence or thinking about 
> another person’s thoughts. Dr. Kanwisher will discuss some of the 
> evidence for highly specialized brain regions, what  these findings 
> imply and what they do not, and what is next. To see Kanwisher's short 
> talks on the brain, which require no scientific background, go to:
> http://nancysbraintalks.mit.edu/
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> The event is free and open to the public. Students are welcome and 
> encouraged! Donations made at the door will benefit the FalmouthSTEM 
> Boosters, a local non-profit organization connecting Falmouth Public 
> School teachers and students with science, technology, engineering and 
> math resources and opportunities.  For more information on the lecture 
> and the STEM Boosters, contact info at falmouthSTEMboosters.org 
> <mailto:info at falmouthstemboosters.org> or the WHOI Information Office 
> at 508-289-2252.
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