How working memory gets you through the day
A new model shows how brain waves are key to both maintenance and control of information in the mind.
A new model shows how brain waves are key to both maintenance and control of information in the mind.
Strategies to compensate for uncertainty help the brain succeed at difficult mental computations.
Technique could be used to detect light or electrical fields in living tissue.
Neurons in human and rat brains carry electrical signals in different ways, scientists find.
Picower Institute researchers find that a key protein linked to intellectual disability shapes electrical currents in neural connections.
A principled approach can lead to less need for drugs, especially opioids, Emery Brown and colleagues say.
Community event generates ideas for sparking innovative and ambitious plans to advance research in human and machine intelligence.
Inaugural director of The Quest discusses what's been accomplished since last spring's launch and what is on the horizon.
Advances in computer vision inspired by human physiological and anatomical constraints are improving pattern completion in machines.
New faculty join the departments of Biology, Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Chemistry, Physics, Mathematics, and Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences.
McGovern Institute scientist is recognized with award for outstanding and creative achievements made in the life and medical sciences.
MIT neuroscientist is among five people selected to receive the early career award.
Three MIT postdocs earn competitive Howard Hughes Medical Institute fellowships that support diversity in the sciences.
Tiny probes could be useful for monitoring patients with Parkinson’s and other diseases.
Neural plasticity and arbor growth decline with age, study in mice shows.