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MIT 9.11: The Human Brain (Spring 2018)

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Re: MIT 9.11: The Human Brain (Spring 2018)

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Hi Nancy, Any chance you've got material covering motor systems instead of the visual sensory systems?

Sorry, I did not cover the motor system in the course.

Ah well, thanks. I'm still gonna enjoy the perception material!

Re: MIT 9.11: The Human Brain (Spring 2018)

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I am about 4 hours in and still into it! Thank you for sharing the lectures. Just finished the series on Face Recognition. I was wondering if the fusiform face area (FFA) get activated while thinking of someone's face instead of actually looking at one? Might also be interesting to explore the memory of faces in persons with prosopagnosia? Haven't actuallly googled for these yet. Will do so in a bit.. after the next…

Thank you! It means so much to me that some people are appreciating these lectures. I knocked myself out all spring preparing this course, and it was quite a gut punch to read my course evaluations a few days ago, which ere pretty negative. I was so dispirited, I was actually thinking of stopping posting the lectures, but if you guys/gals are into it, that is awesome,I will keep at it! To answer your question: yes we…

Oh, please do don't stop, please. These are extremely intriguing. I haven't binge watched anything like this recently.
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