Columbia University in the City of New York

BrainSTEM: Inside the Brain’s Recognition System: How We Know We Know Someone

Level

High School

 

Essential Questions

How is vision processed by the eye and brain?

What role does memory and context play in social recognition?

How does the brain recognize familiar faces?

 

Materials

Lesson Slides

Student Worksheet + Exit Ticket

 

 

 

 

Source Material

 

The Stavros Niarchos Brain Insight Lecture, "How We Perceive Ourselves and Others" 

By Steven A. Siegelbaum, PhD. and Jon B. Freeman, PhD

 

Created by:

Andrew Anderson


Edited by:

Maia Gumnit, PhD

 

With input from:

 

Alejandro Mundo

Christine Chan

Claryliz Peralta Rodriguez

Deborah Reich

Emma Schmich

Gwendolyn Salas

Jason Econome

Jorge Torres

Madalyn McDaniel

Mariya Barreras

Mariya Barreras

Meng-Ping Tu

Michael Becker

Mosammat Rahim

Ramona Fittipaldi

Ramsha Farooq

Reva Hinds

Sean McFadden

Stephen Kos

Sylvie Ozon

Theresa Stanley

 

 

 

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