Nancy Kanwisher, Ph.D., Winrich Freiwald, Ph.D., and Doris Tsao, Ph.D., were jointly awarded the 2024 Kavli Prize for Neuroscience.
The 2024 Kavli Prize in Neuroscience honors Nancy Kanwisher, Ph.D. (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Doris Ying Tsao, Ph.D. (University of California, Berkeley), and Winrich Freiwald, Ph.D. (Rockefeller University) for the discovery of a specialized system within the brain to recognize faces.
Their discoveries have provided basic principles of neural organization and made the starting point for further research on how the processing of visual information is integrated with other cognitive functions.
To learn more about the Kavli prize laureates and their NEI funded work, visit: https://www.kavliprize.org/prizes/neuroscience/2024