Neuroscientists reverse memories’ emotional associations
MIT study also identifies the brain circuit that links feelings to memories.
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Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Try, try again? Study says no
Neuroscientists find that trying harder makes it more difficult to learn some aspects of language.
Controlling movement with light
MIT neuroscientists inhibit muscle contractions by shining light on spinal cord neurons.
Rett syndrome drug shows promise in clinical trial
MIT neuroscientists report more detail on how the disease arises.
When it comes to numbers, culture counts
In a Bolivian rainforest society, children learn to count just like in the U.S., but on a delayed timetable.
MIT launches online lab to study early childhood learning
Families contribute to research via browser and webcam
Synchronized brain waves enable rapid learning
MIT study finds neurons that hum together encode new information.
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.
Four professors elected to the National Academy of Sciences
Acemoglu, Brown, Grossman, and Grove bring to 77 the number of MIT faculty who are NAS members.