Ready to learn? Brain scans can tell you
Neuroscientists identify brain activity that predicts how well you will remember images.
McGovern Institute
Scene perception versus action in the brain
Cognitive neuroscientists shed light on how the brain responds to scenes and their mirror-image reversals.
Recognizing voices depends on language ability
Study finds that for people with dyslexia, it’s much harder to identify who is speaking.
Daniel Schmidt, neurobiology postdoc, wins cancer fellowship
Brain-tumor researcher named among 18 fellows
How to grow wires and tiny plates
Liquid processing method developed at MIT can control the shapes of nanowires and produce complete electronic devices.
Of minds and machines
Final installment of MIT’s 150th anniversary symposia explores intelligence — both human and artificial.
The benefits of meditation
MIT and Harvard neuroscientists explain why the practice helps tune out distractions and relieve pain.
Seeing the light
Optogenetic technology restores visual behavior in mice, holds promise for treating human blindness.
Re-creating autism, in mice
Mice with a particular gene mutation avoid interacting with other mice and show compulsive, repetitive behavior.
A new way to evaluate dyslexia
Neuroscientists show that brain scans can predict whether children’s reading ability will improve.
When gender isn’t written all over one’s face
Neuroscientists find that the same face may look male or female, depending on where it appears in a person’s field of view.
Force of habit
New study shows that costs and rewards of behavior help the brain form optimal habits.
5 from MIT win NIH awards
The grants are designed to promote risky, innovative research with the potential to transform a field of study.