March 7, 2022Objection: No one can understand what you’re saying by Anne Trafton | MIT News Office An MIT study identifies ways that lawyers could make their written documents easier for the average person to read.
March 3, 2022New MRI probe can reveal more of the brain’s inner workings by Anne Trafton | MIT News Office Tracing connections between neuron populations could help researchers map brain circuits that underlie behavior and perception.
March 2, 2022The benefits of peripheral vision for machines by Adam Zewe | MIT News Office Researchers find similarities between how some computer-vision systems process images and how humans see out of the corners of our eyes.
February 28, 2022School of Engineering welcomes new faculty by School of Engineering Seventeen new professors join the MIT community, with research areas ranging from robotics and machine learning to health care and agriculture.
February 23, 2022Assessing connections in the brain’s reading network by Jennifer Michalowski | McGovern Institute for Brain Research State-of-the-art analysis of brain images from nearly 700 children has turned up surprisingly few links between white matter structure and reading ability.
February 22, 2022Singing in the brain by Anne Trafton | MIT News Office MIT neuroscientists have identified a population of neurons in the human brain that respond to singing but not other types of music.
February 21, 2022Can machine-learning models overcome biased datasets? by Adam Zewe | MIT News Office A model’s ability to generalize is influenced by both the diversity of the data and the way the model is trained, researchers report.
February 20, 2022On a mission to alleviate chronic pain by Anne Trafton | MIT News Office Fan Wang’s studies of how the brain controls pain may one day lead to new treatments that could help millions of people.
February 17, 2022Dendrites may help neurons perform complicated calculations by Anne Trafton | MIT News Office Different types of these branch-like projections process incoming information in different ways before sending it to the body of the neuron.
February 16, 2022A new approach to curbing cocaine use by Jennifer Michalowski | McGovern Institute for Brain Research MIT researchers find activating a specific acetylcholine receptor in the brain reduces cocaine use in rodents.
