Nancy Kanwisher
Nancy G. Kanwisher | |
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| Born | 1958 (age 66–67) |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Known for | Fusiform face area |
| Awards | Golden Brain Award Heineken Prize Kavli Prize |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Cognitive psychology |
| Institutions | UCLA Harvard University Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Thesis | Repetition blindness: type recognition without token individuation (1986) |
| Doctoral advisor | Mary C. Potter |
| Doctoral students | Frank Tong |
Nancy Gail Kanwisher FBA (born 1958) 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.