How do we know what other people are thinking? How do we judge them, and what happens in our brains when we do?
MIT neuroscientist Rebecca Saxe is tackling those tough questions
and many others. Her goal is no less than understanding how the brain
gives rise to the abilities that make us uniquely human--making moral
judgments, developing belief systems and understanding language.
It's a huge task, but "different chunks of it can be bitten off in different ways," she says. Read More...