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Rebecca Saxe

Rebecca Saxe is a neuroscientist at the Saxelab at MIT. Her works focuses on Theory of Mind, the way that people think about other people’s thoughts.

Stories from this author

Scientists reconfigured a magnetic resonance scanner to capture a woman and her baby.

Why I Captured This MRI of a Mother and Child

A venerable symbol of human love, as you’ve never seen it before