Complex brain function depends on flexibility
Neurons that can multitask greatly enhance the brain’s computational power, study finds.
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Brain and Cognitive Sciences
D-Lab Scale-Ups awards funds to three MIT social entrepreneurs
Shawn Wen ‘13, Kevin Cedrone SM ’10 PhD ‘13 and Sumana Shrestha MBA ‘13 to join the Phase I Fellowship Program
An unforgettable life
MIT neuroscientist Suzanne Corkin shares her memories of the world’s most famous amnesia patient.
Decoding ‘noisy’ language in daily life
Study shows how people rationally interpret linguistic input.
3Q: Robert Desimone on the federal BRAIN Initiative
Director of McGovern Institute discusses how new initiative to understand the human brain will affect neuroscience at MIT and beyond.
Exploring a breakdown in communication
Study reveals linguistic deficits behind autistic children’s difficulties understanding other people.
Four MIT researchers attend White House announcement of brain initiative
Obama invites Boyden, Brown, Desimone and Seung to launch of new federal initiative.
Students have engineering on the brain
MIT class offers student teams a chance to create business ventures based on neurotechnology research.
Four professors named 2013 MacVicar Fellows
Griffith, Miller, Schulz and Teng awarded the Institute’s highest undergraduate teaching honor.
Breaking down the Parkinson’s pathway
New study is first to analyze how affected brain cells respond during different behavioral tasks.
Boyden to share prestigious brain prize
Ed Boyden honored for his work on optogenetics; will share 1 million Euro prize with five other researchers.
How the brain loses and regains consciousness
Study reveals brain patterns produced by a general anesthesia drug; work could help doctors better monitor patients.
Exploring the brain, and the world
Brain and cognitive sciences major Joy Ekuta researches, learns and teaches her way around the globe.
MIT hosts American Junior Academy of Science delegates
The Institution provides day’s worth of activities for more than 200 conference attendees.
The relationship between child’s play and scientific exploration
Laura Schulz finds that babies learning about the world have much in common with scientists.