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By exposing mice to a unique combination of light and sound, MIT neuroscientists have shown that they can improve cognitive and memory impairments similar to those seen in Alzheimer’s patients.

As visual information flows into the brain through the retina, the visual cortex transforms the sensory input into coherent perceptions.

Renée Fleming normally impresses audiences with her singing.

When she was an MIT undergraduate studying electrical engineering, Jeannette Wing ’78, SM ’79, PhD ’83 took a required computer science class and began thinking about changing her major.

Calcium is a critical signaling molecule for most cells, and it is especially important in neurons.

Algorithms modeled loosely on the brain have helped artificial intelligence take a giant leap forward in recent years.

By his own admission, Héctor Javier Vázquez Martínez was underprepared to move to Zurich for a semester during his junior year.

In the basement of MIT’s Building 3, a robot is carefully contemplating its next move.

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.