11. Development, Nature & Nurture II (2018)
[LOGO SOUNDS] NANCY KANWISHER: So I'm doing another one of these big mongo lectures that takes a whole week, so this is really a continuation of last time. This is the outline for the whole week. We got through most of the stuff on face perception. I'll do some more today. We're right there. And we're going to go on and consider this question of, what's innate, and how do you wire up brains? So first, a brief recap of main points from last time. What, if anything, is innate about face perception? We considered lots of different kinds of evidence, behavioral and neural. And the bottom line is, maybe not that much. So there's a few things that are sort of suggestive, like newborns have this bias to look at faces more than other non-face stimuli that are pretty similar-- schematic faces versus scrambled schematic faces. And that's suggestive. But then there's the possibility that that's just due to some very, very simple property of those ...