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Nancy Kanwisher is the Walter Rosenblith Professor in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and an investigator at the McGovern Institute for Brain Research. She received her B.S. in 1980 and her Ph.D. in 1986 from MIT. Prior to her current position, Kanwisher worked in the psychology departments at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and Harvard University, returning to MIT in 1997. Her research has greatly contributed to the identification and characterization of various regions of the human brain associated with specific cognitive functions, particularly in visual perception. Kanwisher has been recognized with several prestigious awards, including the Troland Research Award from the National Academy of Sciences in 1999, the MacVicar Faculty Fellow teaching Award at MIT in 2002, and the Carvalho-Heineken Prize for Cognitive Science in 2018. She was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2005 and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2009. Kanwisher's lab focuses on understanding the organization and functioning of the brain and how these relate to specific cognitive processes.