Rebecca Saxe

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Cognitive neuroscience at MIT. Open science. 🇨🇦 Saxelab.mit.edu

An infant and fMRI images
Graphic showing two alternative theories of the sequence and timing of development of cortical face responses: slow and sequential, or early and parallel.
Plots showing the average looking time is higher for unexpected than expected trials in the in-lab, zoom, and automated versions of the same experiment.
Displays used in the experiment. Top: A red ball jumps over a tall wall to reach a blue triangle. Bottom: (a) unexpected: the wall is short but the ball still jumps as high; (b) expected: the wall is short and the ball jumps just high enough to clear the wall.
Eight women in black tie clothes; they are eminent scientists.