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June 24, 2009

MIT professor Rebecca Saxe discusses the challenges and promise of neuroscience today.

In this interview, MIT professor Rebecca Saxe discusses the challenges and promise of neuroscience today, including the most interesting things we've learned about the brain so far, and the big breakthroughs she expects to see in the next 5 years. Saxe also talks about the potential, and potential ethical problems, with using neuro-imaging in marketing and advertising.

Credit: National Science Foundation and Discover magazine


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