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by The Tech. James DiCarlo, associate professor of neuroscience,
has been named head of the Department of Brain and Cognitive
Sciences. His five-year term will begin March 1. DiCarlo
succeeds Mriganka Sur, who will leave his position as department
head to become the director of the Simons Center for the Social
Brain at MIT, a new initiative that aims to catalyze innovative
research on the social brain and translate that work into the
improved diagnosis and treatment of autism spectrum disorders.
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November 2010 by The McGovern Institute for Brain Research.
Neuroscientists at MIT and Harvard have made the surprising
discovery that the brain sees some faces as male when they
appear in one area of a person’s field of view, but female when
they appear in a different location. The findings challenge a
longstanding tenet of neuroscienc