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The Human Brain
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Lecture 1: Introduction
Nancy Kanwisher introduces the questions and approaches of the Human Brain course, beginning with a case that motivates the study of cognition.
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Lecture 2: Neuroanatomy
A preparatory review of cortical anatomy, major regions and topographic organisation in Kanwisher’s Human Brain course.
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Lecture 4: Cognitive Neuroscience Methods I
Introduces several ways of investigating human cognition, including behavioural experiments, brain imaging, electrophysiology, patient studies and stimulation.
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Lecture 5: Cognitive Neuroscience Methods II
Continues the course’s comparison of computational, behavioural, imaging, electrophysiological and intervention approaches to cognitive neuroscience.
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Lecture 6: Experimental Design
Revisits the preceding methods lectures through face recognition and the design of cognitive-neuroscience experiments.
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Lecture 7: Category Selectivity, Controversies, and MVPA
Presents competing interpretations of visual-system organisation alongside multivoxel pattern analysis and the distinction between visual pathways.
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Lecture 8: Navigation I
Examines scene perception and navigation through their functional organisation and associated brain structures.
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Lecture 9: Navigation II
“Lecture 9: Navigation II” is listed in The Human Brain. Its place in the course provides the learning context; an individual account of the lecture's content has not yet been checked.
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Lecture 10: Development, Nature & Nurture I
Examines how cortical organisation develops during infancy and childhood, with attention to genes and experience.
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Lecture 11: Development, Nature & Nurture II (2018)
Continues the discussion of genes, experience and cortical organisation, extending the question to change in adulthood.
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Lecture 13: Number
Explores how humans represent number and how the course relates numerical cognition to brain organisation.
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Lecture 15: Hearing and Speech
Introduces questions about the functional organisation of human hearing, including speech and music.
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Lecture 16: Music
Examines the functional organisation of music processing in the Human Brain course.
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Lecture 18: Language I
Introduces language organisation in the brain and the relationship between language and thought.
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Lecture 20: Mentalizing and Theory of Mind
Kanwisher presents a specialised-brain-region account of thinking about other people’s mental states.
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Lecture 21: Brain Networks
Introduces major white-matter pathways and questions about predicting function and relationships between brain regions.
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Lecture 24: Attention and Awareness
Examines how perceptual processing differs when information is consciously experienced and when it is not.