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Five MIT faculty elected to the National Academy of Sciences for 2024
May 14, 2024

Five MIT faculty elected to the National Academy of Sciences for 2024

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Leah Campbell | School of Science
Guoping Feng, Piotr Indyk, Daniel Kleitman, Daniela Rus, Senthil Todadri, and nine alumni are recognized by their peers for their outstanding contributions to research.
Using MRI, engineers have found a way to detect light deep in the brain
May 10, 2024

Using MRI, engineers have found a way to detect light deep in the brain

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Anne Trafton | MIT News
The new technique could enable detailed studies of how brain cells develop and communicate with each other.
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May 2, 2024

Brains on Brains: Celebrating achievement, exploring big questions

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Jarret Bencks

The Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences celebrated its scientists and their discoveries, while exploring some of the most pressing questions in their fields at the biennial Brains on Brains symposium April 29.

Natural language boosts LLM performance in coding, planning, and robotics
May 1, 2024

Natural language boosts LLM performance in coding, planning, and robotics

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Alex Shipps | MIT CSAIL
Three neurosymbolic methods help language models find better abstractions within natural language, then use those representations to execute complex tasks.
Eric Martinez
May 1, 2024

The language of the law

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Jarret Bencks

If there is a conventional path to advanced studies in cognitive sciences, Eric Martínez certainly didn’t take it.

May 1, 2024

Searching for discoveries in the ‘second brain’

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Jarret Bencks

Sharmelee Selvaraji was on the verge of accepting a position at another university in 2022 when a friend who worked in Polina Anikeeva's lab at the

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May 1, 2024

Exploring the brain's blueprint

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Jarret Bencks

Talya Kramer was given some advice when she started graduate school.

To understand cognition — and its dysfunction — neuroscientists must learn its rhythms
April 30, 2024

To understand cognition — and its dysfunction — neuroscientists must learn its rhythms

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David Orenstein | The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory
A new framework describes how thought arises from the coordination of neural activity driven by oscillating electric fields — a.k.a. brain “waves” or “rhythms.”
Three from MIT awarded 2024 Guggenheim Fellowships
April 26, 2024

Three from MIT awarded 2024 Guggenheim Fellowships

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Sarah Costello | School of Science
MIT professors Roger Levy, Tracy Slatyer, and Martin Wainwright appointed to the 2024 class of “trail-blazing fellows.”
Mapping the brain pathways of visual memorability
April 23, 2024

Mapping the brain pathways of visual memorability

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Rachel Gordon | MIT CSAIL
For the first time, researchers use a combination of MEG and fMRI to map the spatio-temporal human brain dynamics of a visual image being recognized.
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