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Celebrating McGovern

Sen. Kerry, Jane Pauley join in festivities

November 8, 2005

Neurons in a purely visual brain region called the inferotemporal (IT) cortex respond selectively to different images. As pictures were randomly presented to the monkey during specific intervals (top), neurons at different sites in IT produce distinct patterns of activity to each picture (bottom). For example, neurons at site 1 favor the toy and the yam, while neurons at site 3 prefer the monkey f...

Neuroscientists break code on sight

November 3, 2005

McGovern celebrates opening its new home Friday

November 2, 2005

Picower researcher's transgenic technique could lead to avian flu-resistant birds

October 31, 2005

Institute of Medicine elects 2 from MIT

October 24, 2005

MIT researchers used laboratory rats in a maze to study what happens when the brain forms a habit. Rats learned to associate the location of a sound, at left in diagram, with the location of a food reward. The researchers then changed the environment by removing the reward, in effect breaking the habit. When the reward was restored, however, the neural pathways created by the habit immediately ref...

Brain researchers explain why old habits die hard

October 19, 2005

Neuroscience events to mark brain and cog complex opening

October 18, 2005

Brain research makes move toward better prostheses

October 13, 2005

"Brain scientists team up to treat autism" - MIT Spectrum, Spring 2005

MIT launches effort to understand autism

October 3, 2005

Dr. Peter D. Kramer, author of 'Listening to Prozac,' served as moderator at Monday's conference, 'On Depression.'

MIT conference tackles depression

September 21, 2005

Team explores how brain cuts through clutter

September 9, 2005

Out of sight, out of mind? Not really

MIT researchers probe how brain learns to see

August 22, 2005

Brain scientists offer insight into vision

July 20, 2005

Picower researchers talk of mice and memory

June 13, 2005

Brain and Cognitive Sciences awards

June 1, 2005

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