Three pioneers in face-perception research—Nancy Kanwisher, professor of cognitive neuroscience at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Winrich Freiwald, professor of neurosciences and behavior at Rockefeller University; and Doris Tsao, professor of neurobiology at the University of California, Berkeley—won the 2024 Kavli Prize for their discoveries of the regions—in both the human and monkey brains—responsible for identifying and recognizing faces. The next Kavli Prize will be awarded in 2026.
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2024 Kavli Prize awarded for research on face-selective brain areas