Try, try again? Study says no
Neuroscientists find that trying harder makes it more difficult to learn some aspects of language.
McGovern Institute
Controlling movement with light
MIT neuroscientists inhibit muscle contractions by shining light on spinal cord neurons.
When good people do bad things
Being in a group makes some people lose touch with their personal moral beliefs, researchers find.
Inside the adult ADHD brain
Brain scans differentiate adults who have recovered from childhood ADHD and those whose difficulties linger.
Illuminating neuron activity in 3-D
New technique allows scientists to monitor the entire nervous system of a small worm.
Feng Zhang wins NSF's Alan T. Waterman Award
Waterman Award is NSF's highest honor recognizing an outstanding researcher under the age of 35.
How the brain pays attention
Neuroscientists identify a brain circuit that’s key to shifting our focus from one object to another.
MRI reveals genetic activity
New MIT technique could help decipher genes’ roles in learning and memory.
Patrick McGovern, founder of McGovern Institute for Brain Research, dies at 76
$350 million gift in 2000 aimed to broaden neuroscientists’ understanding of the human brain.
Even when test scores go up, some cognitive abilities don’t
MIT neuroscientists find even high-performing schools don’t influence their students’ abstract reasoning.
Balancing old and new skills
MIT model explains how the brain can learn novel tasks while still remembering what it has already learned.