Nancy Kanwisher - James Haxby debate (1:29:43)
- Brains, Minds and Machines Summer Course 2016
Nancy Kanwisher, MIT & James Haxby, Dartmouth College
This debate highlights different perspectives on functional specificity in the human brain, addressing how studies from neuroscience and cognition are used to study the nature of neural representations of information from different modalities and cognitive processes, to determine, for example, the spatial localization of these representations and how later processing stages decode this information from earlier levels.
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