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Nancy Kanwisher

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American cognitive neuroscientist

United StatesBorn 1958 · age 68
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Nancy Gail Kanwisher FBA 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.

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2024Kavli Prize in Neuroscience
2023Jean Nicod Prize
2022NAS Award in the Neurosciences
2021William James Fellow Award
2018C.L. de Carvalho-Heineken Prize for Cognitive Science
2018Davida Teller Award
2016National Institutes of Health Director's Pioneer Award
2007Golden Brain Award
1999Troland Research Awards
Fellow of the Cognitive Science Society
Fellow of the Society of Experimental Psychologists
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

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Nancy Gail Kanwisher FBA 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.

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Born 1958 · age 68
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