Neuroscientists reveal how the brain can enhance connections
Newly identified mechanism allows the brain to strengthen links between neurons.
What counts as fair?
Neuroscientists find that children’s ability to count is key to distributing resources based on merit.
Learning spoken language
System learns to distinguish words’ phonetic components, without human annotation of training data.
DNA breakage underlies both learning, age-related damage
Process that allows brains to learn and remember also leads to degeneration with age.
How the brain tells good from bad
Neuroscientists identify neurons in the amygdala that assign emotions to experience.
Picower and MIT scientists awarded BRAIN Initiative grants
Researchers will advance our understanding of the human mind and discover new ways to treat, prevent, and cure neurological disorders.
Neuroscientists identify key role of language gene
Mutation that arose long ago may be key to humans’ unique ability to produce and understand speech.
ScratchJr: Coding for kindergarten
With a new app, young children learn important skills as they program stories and games.
Try, try again? Study says no
Neuroscientists find that trying harder makes it more difficult to learn some aspects of language.
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.
MIT and Harvard release de-identified learning data from open online courses
Dataset contains the original learning data from the 16 HarvardX and MITx courses offered in 2012-13.
Goodbye, USA; Sawubona, South Africa!
Terrascope student sees firsthand the complexity of water security in South Africa.