1. Introduction to the Human Brain
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Published 2021-10-27
Instructor: Nancy Kanwisher
View the complete course: ocw.mit.edu/9-13S19
YouTube Playlist: • MIT 9.13 The Human Brain, Spring 2019
Prof. Kanwisher tells a true story to introduce the course, then covers the why, how, and what of studying the human brain and gives a course overview.
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All Comments (21)
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View the complete course: ocw.mit.edu/9-13S19 YouTube Playlist: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUl4u3cNGP60IKRN_pFptIB…
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Me, a poor inner-city kid sitting through an MIT lecture like this. Unreal. Thank you all.
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I like how MIT is like "we can literally make our lectures free to watch and it'll have no negative impact on our admissions because we're just that good."
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I love the fact that this is free information open to the world
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I love how people are here just for access to this knowledge. Not to get a degree, but just just a raw thirst for knowledge!
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Isn’t it marvelous when gifted teachers have great story telling skills. I’m hooked for the full course.
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what a privilege to be getting these high quality lessons for free. grateful to our educators and those associated for making this accessible to laypeople, not just those who can afford and/or qualify in. you a doing good for the public by doing this i hope everyone is having a great week and staying healthy
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Wow, she even teaches students how to read academic papers by going through an example! every junior grads student should watch that! (the example starts around 1:15:00)
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Im a drug addict homeless and I can’t believe I watched through a MIT lecture like this. Thank you.
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This the reason why Internet has been built : to spread knowledge everywhere to everybody. Not to create stories on Instagram or TikTok. Thanks. Great course.
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I am a housewife in Turkey and I love to learn new things, especially the human brain. Everything about brain and mind take my attention. Thanks to MIT for those open courses to give us a chance to learn these profound information ( sorry for my poor english) .
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This lecture is why the internet is one of the greatest inventions of human history 🤩🤩🤩
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I find it fascinating how in the last 4 years, almost everything she is saying about AI is out of date. AI is currently absurdly good at performing all of these tasks, and actually outperform humans on it (whether you look at Google/Microsoft/Meta's AIs, they all outperform humans). Crazy that the majority of this was done in the last 1 year. That paper she mentioned was coauthored by Geoffery Hinton who recently left Google because of how rapidly AI was growing. Fascinating stuff y'all.
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I am a 17 year old horse trainer in indiana. I never imagined I would get to sit in on a MIT lecture. This is fascinating. Thank you so much
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Never thought that this course would be much more interesting than most of Netflix shows
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Professor Kanwisher's lectures are really intresting and she teaches in a very calm and composed way. Whenever I feel low or tensed, I come here to watch her lectures on neuroscience. She is just amazing.
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I feel privileged learning through such dignified professors for free
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I wish my profs in school loved their curriculum as much as this one does. I love her.
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Every single professor in the world deserves to have their field of passion shared by them like this and every other human deserves to access it for free. For humanity.
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I’m in middle school and want to be a psychologist. Found this and thought “…may as well see what I’m getting myself into”. I watched the whole video and was interested the entire time!
