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Team-based targeted projects, multi-mentor fellowships ensure that scientists studying social cognition, behavior, and autism integrate multiple perspectives and approaches to pressing questions.

More than 80 students and faculty from a dozen collaborating institutions became immersed at the intersection of computation and life sciences and forged new ties to MIT and each other.

His wide-ranging and influential career included fundamental discoveries about how visual scenes and stimuli are processed from the retina through the cortical visual system.

An MIT study finds the brains of children who grow up in less affluent households are less responsive to rewarding experiences.

Researchers survey a broadening landscape of studies showing what’s known, and what remains to be found, about the therapeutic potential of noninvasive sensory, electrical, or magnetic stimulation of gamma brain rhythms.

Across mammalian species, brain waves are slower in deep cortical layers, while superficial layers generate faster rhythms.

Roger Levy, Pulin Li, and David McGee were nominated by peers and students for their exceptional instruction.

A new study finds that language regions in the left hemisphere light up when reading uncommon sentences, while straightforward sentences elicit little response.

MIT researchers find that in mice and human cell cultures, lipid nanoparticles can deliver a potential therapy for inflammation in the brain, a prominent symptom in Alzheimer’s.

Study shows computational models trained to perform auditory tasks display an internal organization similar to that of the human auditory cortex.