Nancy Kanwisher: Your Brain is a Swiss Army Knife
Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda - A podcast by Alan Alda - Tuesdays
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Nancy Kanwisher has discovered many areas of the brain that are specialized for one particular purpose— like recognizing faces – which is interesting to Alan because of his inability to remember the faces of people he meets. Other specialized areas include identifying food, which Alan so far has no trouble with.
