As brain extracts meaning from vision, study tracks progression of processing
Six brain regions participate in a more blended way than has been appreciated.
Six brain regions participate in a more blended way than has been appreciated.
MIT study finds synapses develop strength with calcium, maturation.
MIT neuroscientists find posterior parietal cortex region is crucial to connecting perception to action.
Study reveals how, when a synapse strengthens, its neighbors weaken.
MIT researchers find that encountering novel contexts cues the brain to churn out neurogranin.
Six faculty members are granted tenure in four departments.
Taking time to understand underlying causes of stress can help children escape debilitating health effects, symposium speakers argue.
Study reveals why people with the APOE4 gene have higher risk of the disease.
Scientists pinpoint neural interactions that are necessary for observational learning.
Picower Institute study explains what happens when working memory reaches its full capacity.
Seven staff members honored for their outstanding contributions to the MIT community.
Study finds that major vault protein is needed for homeostatic plasticity.
Emery N. Brown explains how statistics and neuroscience improve anesthesiology at the American Association for the Advancement of Science's annual meeting.
With a new grant, a Picower Institute team is studying the role of astrocytes, which may partner with neurons to process information in the brain.
Brain rhythms act as a gate for information entering and leaving the mind.