{"id":1502,"date":"2017-01-13T08:00:21","date_gmt":"2017-01-13T08:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/braindevs.net\/blog\/blog\/?p=1502"},"modified":"2017-12-30T16:56:24","modified_gmt":"2017-12-30T16:56:24","slug":"kitchen-knives-and-face-blindness-an-fmri-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/kitchen-knives-and-face-blindness-an-fmri-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Kitchen Knives and Face Blindness: An fMRI story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1506 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/braindevs.net\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/AdobeStock_32506335_Credit-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"AdobeStock_32506335_Credit\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/AdobeStock_32506335_Credit-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/AdobeStock_32506335_Credit-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Nancy Kanwisher <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/nancy_kanwisher_the_brain_is_a_swiss_army_knife\" target=\"_blank\">asks<\/a>: is the brain like a kitchen knife, or is it like a Swiss Army knife?<\/p>\n<p>That is: is it one big all-purpose instrument that\u00a0we use to accomplish many different tasks? Or, is it made up of many distinct mini-tools, each one to be used in a special way under special circumstances?<\/p>\n<p>And: what tool can we use to answer that question?<\/p>\n<p>Using functional magnetic resonance imaging, Kanwisher starts hunting for a part of the brain that recognizes faces. Even more intriguing, she looks for the\u00a0part of HER brain that recognizes faces.<\/p>\n<p>The result: a fascinating exploration of our Swiss-Army-Knife brain, and the limits of our knowledge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nancy Kanwisher asks: is the brain like a kitchen knife, or is it like a Swiss Army knife? That is: is it one big all-purpose instrument that\u00a0we use to accomplish many different tasks? Or, is it made up of many distinct mini-tools, each one to be used in a special way under special circumstances? And: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":1506,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[17],"class_list":["post-1502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lb-blog","tag-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1502"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1508,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1502\/revisions\/1508"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}