Undergraduate Lecture Series 2015

Prof. Pawan Sinha - MIT - "Modeling vision: Project Prakash"
Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Laboratory for Vision Research at MIT

• Pawan Sinha's TED talk - "How the brain learn to see" 
• Pawan Sinha's website
• An Interview with Pawan Sinha on NPR
• Project Prakash in India (PDF)

Patrick Winston - MIT - "The Genesis Group"
CBMM Coordinator for Research & Thrust 3 Investigator – Visual Intelligence, and Ford Professor of Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science

• Partrick Winston's website

Rebecca Saxe - MIT - "Theory of Mind"
CBMM Research Thrust 1 Investigator – Development of Intelligence, and Associate Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience,  Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences

• Rebecca Saxe's Ted Talk
• Rebecca Saxe's website
• Book Chapter by Gweon and Saxe (PDF)

Ken Nakayama - Harvard University - "Face Recognition"
CBMM Research Thrust 4 Investigator – Social Intelligence, Edgar Pierce Professor of Psychology

• Ken Nakayama's website
• Developmental prosopagnosia: a window to content-specific face processing (PDF) - A 2006 review article on Developmental prosopagnosia by Bradley Duchaine and Ken Nakayama  
• Super-recognizers: People with extraordinary face recognition ability (PDF) - a great 2009 article by Russell, Duchaine and Nakayama on the study of individuals with superior face recognition abilities. 
• Lecture Slides (PPTX)

Talia Konkle - Harvard University - " "
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology

• Lecture Recording part 1
• Lecture Recording part 2
• Lecture Recording part 3
• Talia Konkle's website
• The functional architecture of the ventral temporal cortex and its role in categorization (PDF) - A review by Grill-Spector & Weiner on the anatomy of the VTC 

Ed Boyden - MIT - "Tools for mapping and repairing the brain"
CBMM Research Thrust 2 Investigator – Circuits for Intelligence, and Associate Professor of Biological Engineering and Brain and Cognitive Sciences

• Lecture Recording part 1
• Lecture Recording part 2
• Lecture Recording part 3
• Ed Boyden's TED Talk
• Boyden video collection
• Ed Boyden web page: The Synthetic Neurobiology Group
• Review paper on Optogenetics (PDF) - "Optogenetic investigation of neural circuits underlying brain disease in animal models" 
• Ed Boyden's Lecture Slides (PPTX)
• Paper on Expansion Microscopy (PDF) - A Tool for mapping the molecular structure of the brain
• Research paper #1 - "Independent optical excitation of distinct neural populations" 
• Research Paper # 2 from the Boyden Group - "Simultaneous whole-animal 3D imaging of neuronal activity using light-field microscopy"

Leyla Isik - MIT - " "
CBMM Research Thrusts 2 & 4 Postdoctoral Associate - Circuits for Intelligence, Social intelligence

• Lecture Recording
• Leyla Isik's website

Liz Spelke - Harvard University - " "
CBMM Associate Director and CBMM Research Thrusts 1, 4 & 5 Investigator, Development of Intelligence, Social Intelligence, Theories for Intelligence, Professor - Department of Psychology

• Lecture Recording
• Liz Spelke's website

Nancy Kanwisher - MIT
CBMM Research Thrust 4 Leader – Social Intelligence, and Walter A. Rosenblith Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences

• Lecture Recording part 1
• Lecture Recording part 2
• Lecture Recording part 3
• Lecture Recording part 4
• Nancy Kanwisher's TED Talk
• Nancy's Brain talks - A wonderful collection of short introductory videos on the science of face recognition  
• Nancy Kanwisher's website
• Background on MRI technology - This is a YouTube video explaining the physics behind MRI 
• Introduction to fMRI technology (PPT) - This is a powerpoint presentation prepared by Monica Gates to introduce fMRI