MIT senior in brain and cognitive sciences and women's and gender studies honored for community work supporting mental health and women in STEM.
Three-in-one design allows genetic, chemical, optical, and electrical inputs and outputs.
Noninvasive technique reduces beta amyloid plaques in mouse models of Alzheimer’s disease.
My interest in cognitive science first manifested itself as a passion for learning foreign languages, in my case French and American Sign Language.
Software that learns to recognize written characters from just one example may point the way towards more powerful, more humanlike artificial intelligence.
As we age, neurons in our brains can become damaged by free radicals. MIT biologists have now discovered that this type of damage, known as oxidative stress, produces an unusual pileup of short snippets of RNA in some neurons.
Cognitive flexibility — the brain’s ability to switch between different rules or action plans depending on the context — is key to many of our everyday activities. For example, imagine you’re driving on a highway at 65 miles per hour.
Looking up at the sun-filled atrium of the Brain and Cognitive Sciences Complex, MIT senior Kerrie Greene smiles. “I love this building,” she says about the place that houses the lab where she first became interested in the inner workings of the human brain.
