Natalie Portman is best known for her roles in Hollywood movies like Star Wars, Cold Mountain and V for Vendetta. What is less known is that she was co-author of a scientific paper on the neuroscience of child development. This is about her research.
Portman, whose real name is Natalie Hershlag, left acting to pursue a psychology degree at Harvard during 2000.
While there she was employed as a research assistant in
Prof Stephen Kosslyn's neuropsychology lab where she got involved in a study investigating the link between frontal lobe development and visual knowledge in infants.
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