Dyslexia independent of IQ
Brain-imaging study suggests that reading difficulties are the same regardless of overall intelligence — and that more children could benefit from support in school.
How to reverse general anesthesia
Neuroscientists find that Ritalin could help bring surgical patients out of surgery much more quickly, with less grogginess.
Five from MIT win NIH grants
Grants support biomedical research that will ‘challenge the status quo’ with risk-taking, innovative ideas.
MIT part of $18.5 million effort to create mind-machine interface
New multi-institution center will work on robotic interaction with nervous system
When things go wrong, who’s to blame?
New study shows that infants are surprisingly adept at figuring out whether they made a mistake or if something is wrong in the world.
When four is not four, but rather two plus two
MIT neuroscientists redefine the limits of visual working memory.
Moving inventions to the marketplace
MIT/Harvard symposium seeks commercial opportunities for emerging technologies.
What makes an image memorable?
Hint: We tend to remember pictures of people much better than wide open spaces.
Of minds and machines
Final installment of MIT’s 150th anniversary symposia explores intelligence — both human and artificial.
The benefits of meditation
MIT and Harvard neuroscientists explain why the practice helps tune out distractions and relieve pain.
Jerome Lettvin, MIT professor emeritus, dies at 91
Dynamic cognitive scientist made key contributions to neurophysiology and vision science.
Seeing the light
Optogenetic technology restores visual behavior in mice, holds promise for treating human blindness.
Re-creating autism, in mice
Mice with a particular gene mutation avoid interacting with other mice and show compulsive, repetitive behavior.