Our brains are famously flexible, or “plastic,” because neurons can do new things by forging new or stronger connections with other neurons.
Getting robots to do things isn’t easy: Usually, scientists have to either explicitly program them or get them to understand how humans communicate via language.
Swanny Lamboy Rodriguez is not one to complain.
Antonio Torralba has been named the inaugural director of the MIT Quest for Intelligence, effective immediately, Provost Martin Schmidt announced today in an email to the MIT community.
Entering an unfamiliar place provides the chance to make a new memory.
Humans can perform a vast array of mental operations and adjust their behavioral responses based on external instructions and internal beliefs.
Senior Annamarie Bair was determined to become a medical doctor when she arrived at MIT from the Midwest nearly four years ago.
