Neuroscience

Monkeys looked at these computer-generated images of composite cats and dogs developed by MIT researcher Tomaso Poggio and pressed a joystick if an image was mostly cat or mostly dog. Individual neurons in the monkeys' brains became tuned to the entire category of "cat" and others to "dog."

MIT researchers find individual brain cells 'tuned' to entire categories of information

Monkeys learn to see differences between cats and dogs

January 11, 2001

James Biggs, postdoctoral associate in the Research Lab of Electronics (left), Professor Mandayam Srinivasan, director of MIT's Touch Lab, and mechanical engineering graduate student Jung Kim observe the movement of a robotic arm driven by signals from a monkey at Duke University.

Monkey controls robotic arm using brain signals sent over Internet

December 6, 2000

Rajesh Ranganathan (left) and Professor H. Robert Horvitz have discovered a fast receptor in worms that responds to serotonin.

Newfound receptor responds to serotonin

December 6, 2000

MIT researchers find new molecule that responds to serotonin

Knowledge may lead to the identification of new drug targets for serotonin, which regulates depression, appetite, sleep

November 22, 2000

Brain imaging distinguishes between seeing and imagining

November 8, 2000

Seeing and imagining are the same to the brain, MIT research shows

The different parts of the brain that are active when we look at faces and places also light up when we imagine them

November 1, 2000

MIT researchers identify a molecule that may give the adult brain more learning power and help treat neurological diseases

October 25, 2000

Biology professor Martha Constantine-Paton (right), graduate student Matthew Townsend and others have identified a molecule that may help the brain to learn. On the computer screen, they show evidence that direct input from the retina was received by neurons in the brain.

Researchers identify molecule that may give brain a learning boost

October 25, 2000

Talk on language and cognition planned

September 27, 2000

Student helps explore neural basis of racial evaluation

September 20, 2000

Alumnus creates chair and neuroscience fund

August 9, 2000

Left to right: MIT researchers Richard Hahnloser, a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences; H. Sebastian Seung, assistant professor of computational neuroscience; and Rahul Sarpeshkar, assistant professor of electrical engineering and computer science, were part of a team that created an electronic circuit that mimics the biological circuitry of the brain.

Electronic circuit mimics the brain

July 12, 2000

This electronic circuit, made up of 16 excitatory "neurons" and one inhibitory "neuron," mimics the biological circuitry of the cerebral cortex.

MIT and Bell Labs researchers create electronic circuit that mimics the brain's circuitry

Device may help create computers that work more like the brain

June 21, 2000

Dan Doherty, a physical therapist at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, helps Frances Heimberg work with MIT-Manus during her rehabilitation therapy following a stroke.

MIT-Manus robot aids physical therapy of stroke victims

June 7, 2000

Brain and cognitive sciences department cites students

May 31, 2000

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