How the brain assigns objects to categories
New findings may explain why children with autism tend to fixate on details instead of seeing the big picture.
New findings may explain why children with autism tend to fixate on details instead of seeing the big picture.
Mice with a particular gene mutation avoid interacting with other mice and show compulsive, repetitive behavior.
Presented by School of Science Dean's Colloquium.
Neuroscientists find evidence that autistic patients have trouble understanding other people’s intentions.
Collaboration is the first large-scale effort of computer and behavioral scientists to jointly address ASD.
Honored for thesis on neural correlates of visual illusions
Scientists find that neurons in the brain’s planning center can handle more than one kind of job.
MIT neuroscientists are using their knowledge of the brain to generate promising treatments for autism, mental retardation and Alzheimer’s disease.