Rebecca Saxe

Rebecca Saxe (* in Toronto) ist eine kanadische Neurowissenschaftlerin. Sie ist John W Jarve Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience am Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Ihr Hauptforschungsgebiet ist die Theory of Mind.

Saxe studierte bei Kia Nobre an der Oxford University. 2003 wurde sie bei Nancy Kanwisher am MIT zum PhD promoviert. Anschließend wechselte sie als PostDoc an die Harvard University bei Susan Carey.

Auszeichnungen

• 2012: Young Global Leader (World Economic Forum)
• 2014: Troland Research Award

Schriften

• Thomas, A. J., Woo B., Nettle D., Spelke E., & Saxe R. (2022): Early concepts of intimacy: Young humans use saliva sharing to infer close relationships. Science. 375(6578), 311-315.
• Thomas AJ, Saxe R, Spelke ES: Infants infer potential social partners by observing the interactions of their parent with unknown others. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2022 Aug 9;119(32):e2121390119. doi:10.1073/pnas.2121390119.
• Kamps, F. S., Richardson H., N. Murty A. Ratan, Kanwisher N., & Saxe R. (2022): Using child-friendly movie stimuli to study the development of face, place, and object regions from age 3 to 12 years. Human Brain Mapping. 43, 2782-2800.
• H. Barrett, C., & Saxe R. (2021): Are some cultures more mind-minded in their moral judgements than others?. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B. 376(1838).
• Jamali, M., Grannan B. L., Fedorenko E., Saxe R., Báez-Mendoza R., & Williams Z. M. (2021): Single-neuronal predictions of others’ beliefs in humans. Nature. 591(7851), 610-614.
• Deen, B., Saxe R., & Kanwisher N. (2020): Processing communicative facial and vocal cues in the superior temporal sulcus. NeuroImage. 221(1), 117191.
• Raz, G., & Saxe R. (2020): Learning in infancy is active, endogenously motivated, and depends on the prefrontal cortices. Annual Review of Developmental Psychology. 2, 247-268.
• Powell LJ, Kosakowski HL, Saxe R: Social Origins of Cortical Face Areas. Trends Cogn Sci. 2018 Sep;22(9):752-763. doi:10.1016/j.tics.2018.06.009.
• Saxe, R., & Houlihan S. Dae (2017): Formalizing emotion concepts within a Bayesian model of theory of mind. Current Opinion in Psychology. 17, 15 - 21.
• Richardson, H., & Saxe R. (2016): Using MRI to Study Developmental Change in Theory of Mind. Social Cognition: Development Across the Life Span. 210.
• Saxe, R., & Powell, L. J. (2006): It’s the Thought That Counts: Specific Brain Regions for One Component of Theory of Mind. Psychological Science, 17(8), 692–699. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9280.2006.01768.x
• Rebecca Saxe, Tania Tzelnic, Susan Carey: Five-month-old infants know humans are solid, like inanimate objects, Cognition, Volume 101, Issue 1, 2006, Pages B1-B8, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2005.10.005.
• Saxe R: Against simulation: the argument from error. Trends Cogn Sci. 2005 Apr;9(4):174-9. doi:10.1016/j.tics.2005.01.012.
  • comment: Goldman AI, Sebanz N. Simulation, mirroring, and a different argument from error. Trends Cogn Sci. 2005 Jul;9(7):320; author reply 321. doi:10.1016/j.tics.2005.05.008.
• Rebecca Saxe, Anna Wexler: Making sense of another mind: The role of the right temporo-parietal junction, Neuropsychologia, Volume 43, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 1391-1399, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2005.02.013.
• Saxe R, Kanwisher N.: People thinking about thinking people. The role of the temporo-parietal junction in "theory of mind". Neuroimage. 2003 Aug;19(4):1835-42. doi:10.1016/s1053-8119(03)00230-1.

Weblinks

• saxelab.mit.edu
• oge.mit.edu
• www.mitkidsbrains.com
• news.mit.edu
• news.mit.edu/2012/rebecca-saxe-named-young-global-leader
• mcgovern.mit.edu
• TED talk (2009) "How we read each other's minds"
• TED talk "Baby Brains: Unlocking Our Humanity"
• Rebecca Saxe: The Brain vs. The Mind
• Podcast 2024 "Robust Science with Prof. Rebecca Saxe"