When four is not four, but rather two plus two
MIT neuroscientists redefine the limits of visual working memory.
MIT neuroscientists redefine the limits of visual working memory.
MIT/Harvard symposium seeks commercial opportunities for emerging technologies.
Hint: We tend to remember pictures of people much better than wide open spaces.
Final installment of MIT’s 150th anniversary symposia explores intelligence — both human and artificial.
MIT and Harvard neuroscientists explain why the practice helps tune out distractions and relieve pain.
Dynamic cognitive scientist made key contributions to neurophysiology and vision science.
Optogenetic technology restores visual behavior in mice, holds promise for treating human blindness.
Mice with a particular gene mutation avoid interacting with other mice and show compulsive, repetitive behavior.
In people born blind, brain regions that usually process vision can tackle language.
Neuroscientists find evidence that autistic patients have trouble understanding other people’s intentions.
Neuroscientists’ new technique can stimulate brain cells, then reveal how those neurons influence the rest of the brain.
Neuroscientist Emery Brown hopes to shed light on a longstanding medical mystery: how general anesthesia works.
Neuroscientists show that brain scans can predict whether children’s reading ability will improve.
Neuroscientists find that the same face may look male or female, depending on where it appears in a person’s field of view.