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          Rebecca Saxe

          American cognitive neuroscientist

          Rebecca Saxe is a professor of cognitive neuroscience and associate Dean of Science[1] at MIT.

          She is an associate member of the McGovern Institute for Brain Research and a board member of the Center for Open Science.

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        4. Rebecca Saxe is a professor of cognitive neuroscience and associate Dean of Science at MIT. She is an associate member of the McGovern Institute for Brain Research and a board member of the Center for Open Science.
        5. Biography of Rebecca Saxe.

          6. She is known for her research on the neural basis of social cognition. She received her BA from Oxford University where she studied Psychology and Philosophy, and her PhD from MIT in Cognitive Science. She is the granddaughter of Canadian coroner and Ontario provincial legislator Morton Shulman, and daughter of Toronto city councillor Dianne Saxe.

          Scientific contributions

          As a graduate student, Saxe demonstrated that a brain region known as the right temporoparietal junction (rTPJ) is specifically activated by ‘theory of mind’ tasks that require understanding the mental states of other people.[2] She continues to study this brain region, and has recently demonstrated that rTPJ is involved in