Seminar: Mriganka Sur, "Cortical Plasticity"
May 26, 2020
Seminar: Mriganka Sur, "Cortical Plasticity"
Plasticity shapes the brain during development, and mechanisms of plasticity continue into adulthood to enable learning and memory.
Research
Seminar: Earl Miller, "Working Memory 2.0"
May 8, 2020
Seminar: Earl Miller, "Working Memory 2.0"
Working memory is the sketchpad of consciousness, the fundamental mechanism the brain uses to gain volitional control over its thoughts and actions.
How attention helps you remember
September 27, 2012
How attention helps you remember
by
Anne Trafton, MIT News Office
A new study from MIT neuroscientists sheds light on a neural circuit that makes us likelier to remember what we’re seeing when our brains are in a more attentive state.
Explaining the origins of word order using information theory
October 10, 2012
Explaining the origins of word order using information theory
by
Larry Hardesty, MIT News Office
The majority of languages — roughly 85 percent of them — can be sorted into two categories: those, like English, in which the basic sentence form is subject-verb-object (“the girl kicks the ball”),
Brain’s language center has multiple roles
October 16, 2012
Brain’s language center has multiple roles
by
Anne Trafton, MIT News Office
A century and a half ago, French physician Pierre Paul Broca found that patients with damage to part of the brain’s frontal lobe were unable to speak more than a few words.
Calcium reveals connections between neurons
October 17, 2012
Calcium reveals connections between neurons
by
Anne Trafton, MIT News Office
A team led by MIT neuroscientists has developed a way to monitor how brain cells coordinate with each other to control specific behaviors, such as initiating movement or detecting an odor.
How the brain controls our habits
October 29, 2012
How the brain controls our habits
by
Anne Trafton, MIT News Office
Habits are behaviors wired so deeply in our brains that we perform them automatically.
Brain waves encode rules for behavior
November 21, 2012
Brain waves encode rules for behavior
by
Anne Trafton, MIT News Office
One of the biggest puzzles in neuroscience is how our brains encode thoughts, such as perceptions and memories, at the cellular level.
Scientists image brain structures that deteriorate in Parkinson’s
November 26, 2012
Scientists image brain structures that deteriorate in Parkinson’s
by
Anne Trafton, MIT News Office
A new imaging technique developed at MIT offers the first glimpse of the degeneration of two brain structures affected by Parkinson’s disease.
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