A study led by then-undergraduate Gabriel Grand, now a graduate student in EECS, and Idan Blank PhD '16, now an assistant professor at UCLA, while they were in the Fedorenko lab in BCS and the McGovern Institute, reveals the rich knowledge within computational language models and demonstrates just how much can be learned about the world through language alone.

An innovative brain-wide mapping study provides the most comprehensive and rigorous evidence yet that the mammalian brain stores a single memory across a widely distributed, functionally connected complex spanning many brain regions, rather than in just one or even a few places.

Department Head Michale Fee and Associate Dean Rebecca Saxe are two of seven MIT faculty members elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.