Rebecca Saxe

Rebecca Saxe farfesa ce a fannin ilimin halayyar ɗan adam kuma mataimakiyar shugabar kimiyya [1] a MIT. Ta kasance mataimakiyar memba a Cibiyar Binciken Kwakwalwa ta McGovern kuma memba ce a kwamitin Cibiyar Kimiyyar Buɗaɗɗiya. An san ta da bincikenta kan tushen ilimin halayyar ɗan adam. Ta sami digirin farko na digiri na farko daga Jami'ar Oxford inda ta yi karatun Ilimin Halayyar ɗan adam da Falsafa, da kuma digirin digirgir na uku daga MIT a fannin Kimiyyar Fahimta. Ita jikanyar mai binciken gawar Kanada ce kuma ɗan majalisar dokokin lardin Ontario Morton Shulman, kuma 'yar kansilar birnin Toronto Dianne Saxe.

 Gudummawar kimiyya 
A matsayinsa na dalibi mai digiri, Saxe ya nuna cewa yankin kwakwalwa da aka sani da haɗin lokaci na dama (rTPJ) ana kunna shi musamman ta hanyar ayyukan 'ka'idar tunani' waɗanda ke buƙatar fahimtar yanayin tunanin wasu mutane. Ta ci gaba da nazarin wannan yankin kwakwalwa, kuma kwanan nan ta nuna cewa rTPJ yana da hannu a cikin hukunce-hukuncen ɗabi'a; a cikin wani aiki inda batutuwa ke jin labaru da kimanta halayyar halayen, rushewar rTPJ ya sa batutuwa su sanya ƙaramin nauyi a kan niyyar halayen. Mutanen da ke fama da autism suna nuna irin wannan tsari na martani, yana ba da shawarar yiwuwar rawar da rTPJ ke takawa a cikin asalin autism.

Baya ga aikinta a kan ka'idar tunani, Saxe kuma tana nazarin filastik na cortex  da kuma abubuwan da ke tattare da tausayi,  rikice-rikicen rukuni  da kuma nuna motsin rai. 

 Kyaututtuka da karbuwa 
Kafin ya shiga bangaren MIT, Saxe ya kasance ƙaramin ɗan'uwan Jami'ar Harvard Society of Fellows . A shekara ta 2008 an kira ta daya daga cikin masana kimiyya na Popular Science Magazine "Brilliant 10" a karkashin shekaru 40, kuma a shekarar 2012 Taron Tattalin Arziki na Duniya ya ba ta suna Matashi na Duniya. An kalli jawabinta na TED na 2009 fiye da sau miliyan 3.3. Saxe ta sami lambar yabo ta Troland Research daga Kwalejin Kimiyya ta Kasa a shekarar 2014.

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