Controlling attention with brain waves
Study shows that people can boost attention by manipulating their own alpha brain waves.
Study shows that people can boost attention by manipulating their own alpha brain waves.
System from MIT CSAIL sizes up drivers as selfish or selfless. Could this help self-driving cars navigate in traffic?
Political science doctoral student Clara Vandeweerdt studies how identity shapes beliefs on complex political topics such as climate change.
Move over, Alexa and Siri. Talking Mabu robot provides one-to-one support while relaying information to doctors.
Brain and cognitive sciences professor studies how the human mind is able to learn so rapidly.
Detailed observations in the lateral septum indicate region processes movement and reward information to help direct behavior.
How people interpret musical notes depends on the types of music they have listened to, researchers find.
System could help with diagnosing and treating noncommunicative patients.
Focusing awareness on the present moment can enhance academic performance and lower stress levels.
Making electrophysiology more informative, team shows how to distinguish four classes of cells by spike waveform.
In “semiautonomous” cars, older drivers may need more time to take the wheel when responding to the unexpected.
Model replaces the laborious process of annotating massive patient datasets by hand.
Researchers hope the system can zero in on the right patients to enroll in clinical trials, to speed discovery of drug treatments.
Whitehead Institute team finds drugs that activate a key brain gene; initial tests in cells and mice show promise for rare, untreatable neurodevelopmental disorder.
Economist’s study of rickshaw drivers shows effects of alcohol consumption on financial decision-making.