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Actor and activist Christopher Reeve

Reeve speaks out on research

March 5, 2003

Assistant Professor Anthony Wagner and and postdoctoral fellow Lila Davachi used brain imaging techniques at the Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging for their research on how parts of our brains build memories.

Building memories uses two parts of the brain

February 12, 2003

Assistant Professor Anthony Wagner and and postdoctoral fellow Lila Davachi used brain imaging techniques at the Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging for their research on how parts of our brains build memories.

Multiple learning mechanisms identified in human brains

February 11, 2003

Physicists uncover toxic protein strings in Alzheimer's

January 29, 2003

Morgan Sheng

MIT work may help prevent loss of brain synapses

January 23, 2003

Rats replay tasks during slow wave sleep

January 8, 2003

Co-creator Yuri Ostrovsky occupies the viewer evaluation spot on the EasyMixing.com web site

What can you tell from a face?

December 4, 2002

Morgan Sheng, Menicon Professor of Neuroscience, makes his presentation for "Brainwork: Knowing What We See and Changing What We Know."

Basic research is key to future brain treatments

October 9, 2002

This figure shows a sequence of eye movements made by a monkey that is freely viewing a natural image, a seal on a rocky beach. The circles represent fixation locations. Natural viewing is an active process in which the eye moves between image locations that vary in content.

Scientists find pattern in eye movements

October 2, 2002

The figure above shows a sequence of eye movements made by a monkey that is freely viewing a natural image (the circles represent fixation locations). Natural viewing is an active process in which the eye moves between image locations that vary in content

MIT Picower Center neuroscientists find method in the mad rush of eye movements and brain response

September 27, 2002

The chart behind Professor of Neuroscience Earl Miller in this photo-composite shows examples of the stimulus displays used to train monkeys to judge whether successive displays contained the same number of items.

Monkey see, one-two-three: innate number sense discovered

September 11, 2002

MIT Professor of Neuroscience Earl Miller and a chart showing examples of the stimulus displays that were used to train monkeys how to judge whether successive displays contained the same number of items.

MIT researchers explore neural mechanisms of counting

September 5, 2002

Graduate student Andrew Yip (left) and Assistant Professor Pawan Sinha stand before a screen showing blurred faces of celebritiesï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½images used in their experiment on facial recognition. Click here to try the recognition test yourself and find out the identities of the celebrities.

Color cues help in face recognition

August 14, 2002

Click on an image above to take a face-recognition "quiz."

Color helps in face recognition, research shows

July 31, 2002

Research scientist Kazutoshi Nakazawa (left), Professor Susumu Tonegawa (center) and Professor Matthew Wilson stand next to the water tank where mice were tested for their memory of the location of a submerged platform.

Gene involved in memory retrieval identified

June 5, 2002