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.
By his own admission, Héctor Javier Vázquez Martínez was underprepared to move to Zurich for a semester during his junior year. His cell phone plan didn’t work, he’d forgotten to change his money, and he didn’t know German. However, it didn’t take him long to find his way.
In the basement of MIT’s Building 3, a robot is carefully contemplating its next move. It gently pokes at a tower of blocks, looking for the best block to extract without toppling the tower, in a solitary, slow-moving, yet surprisingly agile game of Jenga.
Pawan Sinha, a professor of vision and computational neuroscience in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, first met Poonam when the girl was 13 years old. She lived in a remote village far from the urban bustle of Delhi, the second most-populous city in India.
