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September 10, 2020

As information flows through brain’s heirarchy, higher regions use higher-frequency waves

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David Orenstein | Picower Institute for Learning and Memory

To produce your thoughts and actions, your brain processes information in a hierarchy of regions along its surface, or cortex, ranging from “lower” areas that do basic parsing of incoming sensations to “higher” executive r

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August 31, 2020

Six strategic areas identified for shared faculty hiring in computing

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Terri Park | MIT Schwarzman College of Computing

Nearly every aspect of the modern world is being transformed by computing.

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August 26, 2020

Face-specific brain area responds to faces even in people born blind

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Anne Trafton | MIT News Office

More than 20 years ago, neuroscientist Nancy Kanwisher and others discovered that a small section of the brain located near the base of the skull responds much more strongly to faces than to other objects we see.

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August 18, 2020

A scientific approach to education reform

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David L. Chandler | MIT News Office

The Covid-19 pandemic has upended educational systems around the world, from kindergartens through graduate schools.

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August 15, 2020

BCS vows to take on systemic racism

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Tristan Davies | Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences

BCS and Building 46 leadership, faculty, postdocs, graduate students and staff have taken a firm stand against anti-Black racism and begun collaborating on actions and commitments to recognize, understand, and address systemic racism in our own community and society at large.

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August 12, 2020

Study suggests animals think probabilistically to distinguish contexts

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David Orenstein | Picower Institute for Learning and Memory

Among the many things rodents have taught neuroscientists is that, in a region called the hippocampus, the brain creates a new map for every unique spatial context — for instance, a different room or maze.

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August 4, 2020

Key brain region was “recycled” as humans developed the ability to read

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Anne Trafton | MIT News Office

Humans began to develop systems of reading and writing only within the past few thousand years.

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July 28, 2020

Ila Fiete studies how the brain performs complex computations

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Anne Trafton | MIT News Office

While doing a postdoc about 15 years ago, Ila Fiete began searching for faculty jobs in computational neuroscience — a field that uses mathematical tools to investigate brain function.

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July 27, 2020

Looking into the black box

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Sabbi Lall | McGovern Institute for Brain Research

Deep learning systems are revolutionizing technology around us, from voice recognition that pairs you with your phone to autonomous vehicles that are increasingly able to see and recognize obstacles ahead.

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July 22, 2020

Mapping the brain’s sensory gatekeeper

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Anne Trafton | MIT News Office

Many people with autism experience sensory hypersensitivity, attention deficits, and sleep disruption.

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