How the brain switches between different sets of rules
When you slow down after exiting the highway, or hush your voice in the library, you’re using this brain mechanism.
When you slow down after exiting the highway, or hush your voice in the library, you’re using this brain mechanism.
Mahdi Ramadan and Alexi Choueiri’s common experiences as Lebanese evacuees led both to study the human brain at MIT.
A new model shows how brain waves are key to both maintenance and control of information in the mind.
Scientists present dueling theories in the high-stakes quest to understand how we hold and juggle multiple pieces of information in mind.
Six brain regions participate in a more blended way than has been appreciated.
Study reveals how, when a synapse strengthens, its neighbors weaken.
MIT researchers find that encountering novel contexts cues the brain to churn out neurogranin.
Taking time to understand underlying causes of stress can help children escape debilitating health effects, symposium speakers argue.
Scientists pinpoint neural interactions that are necessary for observational learning.
Picower Institute study explains what happens when working memory reaches its full capacity.
Study identifies neurons that fire at the beginning and end of a behavior as it becomes a habit.
Neuroscientists discover a cellular pathway that encodes memories by strengthening specific synapses.
Brain rhythms act as a gate for information entering and leaving the mind.
MIT neuroscientists suggest a model for how we gain volitional control of what we hold in our minds.
Neuroscientists identify a circuit that helps the brain record memories of new locations.