How Brains Think about Minds

Rebecca Saxe spricht über das Nach-Denken der Gedanken anderer

Rebecca Saxe, Professorin am Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences am MIT, präsentiert in ihrem Vortrag Erkenntnisse aus fMRI- und TMS-Studien und zeigt so Mechanismen der Theory of Mind und des moralisches Urteilens auf neuronaler Ebene.

Über den Vortrag: 

When we look at other people, the features visible on the outside are only a small part of what we see. We are much more interested in seeing, or inferring, what’s going on inside: other people’s thoughts, beliefs and desires. If a person checks her watch, is she uncertain about the time, late for an appoint-ment, or bored with the conversation? If a person shoots his friend on a hunting trip, did he intend revenge or just mistake his friend for a partridge?

One of the most amazing discoveries of recent human cognitive neuroscience is that humans use a specific group of brain regions for thinking about thoughts. What do these regions do? How do they develop? Rebecca Saxe will present evidence from fMRI, developmental fMRI, and TMS studies of the neural mechanisms for Theory of Mind and moral judgment.

Rebecca Saxe is a Professor at the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and one of the key scientists studying the human ability to reason about another person’s mind (Theory of Mind). Her work is influenced by different perspectives and disciplines (such as neuroscience, psychology, philosophy and linguistics), applying different neurophysiological and -psychological methods all aimed to study the question How does the brain – an electrical and biological machine – construct abstract thoughts?

Rebecca Saxe
How Brains Think About Minds

Mittwoch, 30. Juni
16 Uhr

Raum KL 32/202

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