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This Professor Really, Really Cares that You Understand Neuroanatomy

posted by cmn32480 on Monday April 20 2015, @10:38AM   
from the don't-tell-the-zombies dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

Prof. Nancy Kanwisher at MIT shaved her head to give her students a 3D roadmap to the parts of the brain and its functions:

The video is an introduction to your cortex. This “large pizza”-sized layer of brain tissue is scrunched up to fit right under your scalp, and it is responsible for all your higher brain functions. Reading? Thinking? Face recognition? Check check check.

Once Kanwisher’s hair all shaved off, the folds of the cortex are drawn onto her skull and a few areas are highlighted and explained. And yes, they even scanned her brain to make sure the highlighted areas of the brain are drawn in the exact position. Intrigued? There are many more videos about the brain at Nancy’s Brain Talks,

There is no information available whether students in the class were subsequently happier about the $43,720 they pay in annual tuition.

• WTF?? WTF?? (Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 20 2015, @07:08PM

  by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 20 2015, @07:08PM (#173242)

  What's up with that last sentence? How the hell is that relevant? This guy can't submit a single story without finding some way to shit on something. Must be a real hoot at dinner parties.

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• Re:WTF?? (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 21 2015, @04:23AM

  by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 21 2015, @04:23AM (#173391)

  Sometimes, people just act like dummies or attention-seekers.

  In this case, I'm referring to the professor.

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