Rebecca Saxe

American cognitive neuroscientist

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. She is known for her research on the neural basis of social cognition.²

From Wikipedia’s article on Rebecca Saxe (this version), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Born 1950.¹

About

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.

From Wikipedia’s article on Rebecca Saxe, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.²

Companies

Center for Open ScienceBoard member 2018 to now²¹

Early life and education

2000 to 2003Massachusetts Institute of Technology Doctor of Philosophy^{3 4}
Date not recordedOriel College³

Career

Occupation: university teacher, neuroscientist.¹⁰

Since 2018Board member, Center for Open Science⁸
Since 2006Worked at Massachusetts Institute of Technology^{5 7}
2003 to 2006Worked at Harvard University^{5 6}
Date not recordedAssociate professor⁹

Known for: Rebecca Saxe: How we read each other's minds.¹¹

Personal life

Born1950, Toronto^{12 13}
CitizenshipCanada^{13 14}

Awards

2022Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences^{15 18}
2020Guggenheim Fellowship^{13 15}
2014Troland Research Awards^{15 17}
2008Packard Fellowship for Science and Engineering^{15 16}

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