Rebecca Saxe
Auszeichnungen
- 2008: Popular Science “Brilliant 10” scientists under 40
- 2008: Cognitive Neuroscience Society Young Investigator Award
- 2009: American Psychological Association Robert L. Fantz Award for Young Psychologists
- 2010: School of Science Prize for Undergraduate Teaching, MIT
- 2011: Doc Edgerton Junior Faculty Achievement award, MIT
- 2012: Young Global Leader (World Economic Forum)
- 2014: Troland Research Award
- 2015: Arthur C Smith Award for dedication to student life and learning, MIT
- 2017: BCS Awards for Excellence: in Graduate Mentoring; and in Undergraduate Teaching
- 2018: MIT Committed to Caring Award
- 2018: Fellow, American Psychological Association
- 2020: Guggenheim Fellow
Schriften
- Kosakowski, H. L., Cohen, M. A., Herrera, L., Nichoson, I., Kanwisher, N., & Saxe, R. (2024): Cortical face-selective responses emerge early in human infancy. eneuro, 11(7), ENEURO-0117.
- A. J. Thomas, B. Woo, D. Nettle, E. Spelke, R. Saxe: Early concepts of intimacy: Young humans use saliva sharing to infer close relationships. In: Science. Band 375, Nr. 6578, 2022, S. 311–315.
- A. J. Thomas, R. Saxe, E. S. Spelke: Infants infer potential social partners by observing the interactions of their parent with unknown others. In: Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. Band 119, Nr. 32, 9. Aug 2022, S. e2121390119. doi:10.1073/pnas.2121390119.
- F. S. Kamps, H. Richardson, N. Murty A. Ratan, Kanwisher N., Saxe R.: Using child-friendly movie stimuli to study the development of face, place, and object regions from age 3 to 12 years. In: Human Brain Mapping. Band 43, 2022, S. 2782–2800.
- H. C. Barrett, R. Saxe: Are some cultures more mind-minded in their moral judgements than others? In: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B. 376(1838), 2021.
- M. Jamali, B. L. Grannan, E. Fedorenko, R. Saxe, R. Báez-Mendoza, Z. M. Williams: Single-neuronal predictions of others’ beliefs in humans. In: Nature. Band 591, Nr. 7851, 2021, S. 610–614.
- B. Deen, R. Saxe, N. Kanwisher: Processing communicative facial and vocal cues in the superior temporal sulcus. In: NeuroImage. Band 221, Nr. 1, 2020, S. 117191.
- G. Raz, R. Saxe: Learning in infancy is active, endogenously motivated, and depends on the prefrontal cortices. In: Annual Review of Developmental Psychology. Band 2, 2020, S. 247–268.
- L. J. Powell, H. L. Kosakowski, R. Saxe: Social Origins of Cortical Face Areas. In: Trends Cogn Sci. Band 22, Nr. 9, Sep 2018, S. 752–763. doi:10.1016/j.tics.2018.06.009.
- R. Saxe, Houlihan S. Dae: Formalizing emotion concepts within a Bayesian model of theory of mind. In: Current Opinion in Psychology. Band 17, 2017, S. 15–21.
- H. Richardson, R. Saxe: Using MRI to Study Developmental Change in Theory of Mind. In: Development Across the Life Span., Social Cognition. 210, 2016.
- Bedny, M., Pascual-Leone, A., Dodell-Feder, D., Fedorenko, E., & Saxe, R. (2011): Language processing in the occipital cortex of congenitally blind adults. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 108(11), 4429–4434.
- Bedny, M., Caramazza, A., Grossman, E., Pascual-Leone, A., and Saxe, R. (2008): Concepts are more than percepts: the case of action verbs. J. Neurosci. 28, 11347–11353. doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3039-08.2008
- R. Saxe, L. J. Powell: It’s the Thought That Counts: Specific Brain Regions for One Component of Theory of Mind. In: Psychological Science. Band 17, Nr. 8, 2006, S. 692–699. doi: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. In: Cognition. Volume 101, Nr. 1, 2006, S. B1–B8, doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2005.10.005.
- R. Saxe: Against simulation: the argument from error. In: Trends Cogn Sci. Band 9, Nr. 4, Apr 2005, S. 174–179. doi:10.1016/j.tics.2005.01.012.
- comment: A. I. Goldman, N. Sebanz: Simulation, mirroring, and a different argument from error. In: Trends Cogn Sci. Band 9, Nr. 7, Jul 2005, S. 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. In: Neuropsychologia. Volume 43, Nr. 10, 2005, S. 1391–1399, doi:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2005.02.013.
- R. Saxe, N. Kanwisher: People thinking about thinking people. The role of the temporo-parietal junction in "theory of mind". In: Neuroimage. Band 19, Nr. 4, Aug 2003, S. 1835–1842. doi:10.1016/s1053-8119(03)00230-1.