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Shape-shifting cell protein helps us remember and forget

September 8, 2004

MIT post-doc Jessica R. Newton points at a respresentation of a section of a mouse's brain that had been "rewired" to receive visual cues in the hearing region of its brain. Looking on are neuroscience professor Mriganka Sur, center, head of the Department of Brain and Cognititve Sciences, and Susumu Tonegawa, director of the Picower Center for Learning and Memory at MIT.

Adult brain shows more plasticity than previously believed

August 23, 2004

Neuroscience professor Morgan Sheng points to image of glutamate receptors as he and MIT postdoctoral fellow Sang Hyoung Lee discuss their work on how brain cells build and eliminate synapses.

MIT study may hold key to boosting brainpower

July 21, 2004

Susumu Tonegawa, Nobel laureate and director of the Picower Center for Learning and Memory at MIT, surveys neurons on the monitor of research affiliates Mansuo Hayashi, center, and Hae-Yoon Jung, right.

Synapse size and shape key in storing long-term memories

June 10, 2004

Brain and cognitive sciences

June 2, 2004

Mark Bear (above, with an image of a neuron on his computer monitor) has done research that implicates a single mutated gene and protein in the many symptoms of fragile X syndrome.

Work offers hope for treating retardation

May 19, 2004

Objects can be defined both by intrinsic and contextual cues. In image (a), some of the runner's faces have enough intrinsic information to permit their classification as faces based on local image structure (b), while others almost entirely lack such intrinsic cues (c) and rely on contextual information. Many real-world viewing situations (such as observing objects at a distance, through haze or ...

New insights into how we recognize faces

April 7, 2004

Gene plays role in how neurons tell each other apart

April 7, 2004

Study examines how cells tell each other apart

April 2, 2004

Objects can be defined both by intrinsic and contextual cues. In image A, some of the runner's faces have enough intrinsic information to permit their classification as faces based on local image structure (image B), while others almost entirely lack such intrinsic cues (image C) and rely on contextual information. Many real-world viewing situations (such as observing objects at a distance, throug...

MIT team reports new insights in visual recognition

April 1, 2004

Brain circuitry findings could shape computer design

March 10, 2004

Brain circuitry findings could influence computer design

March 8, 2004

Memories with emotion light up areas of brain

March 3, 2004

Graduate student Arvind Govindarajan (left), Professor Susumu Tonegawa (center) and postdoctoral fellow Ray Kelleher look at films in the lab.

Team discovers memory formation mechanism

February 11, 2004

Graduate student Arvind Govindarajan (left), Professor Susumu Tonegawa (center) and postdoctoral fellow Ray Kelleher look at films in the lab.

MIT team discovers memory mechanism

February 5, 2004