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Imagine you are looking for your wallet on a cluttered desk. As you scan the area, you hold in your mind a mental picture of what your wallet looks like.

Kwanghun (KC) Chung, investigator of neuroscience at the Picower Institute for Learning and Memory and an assistant professor in the MIT departments of Chemical Engineering and Brain and Cognitive Sciences, is one of 18 in

Genetic research suggests that hundreds of genes are likely risk factors for neurodevelopmental disorders such as autism.

Sleep is usually considered an all-or-nothing state: The brain is either entirely awake or entirely asleep.

Keeping track of time is critical for many tasks, such as playing the piano, swinging a tennis racket, or holding a conversation.

When the eyes are open, visual information flows from the retina through the optic nerve and into the brain, which assembles this raw information into objects and scenes.

Machine learning, which is the basis for most commercial artificial-intelligence systems, is intrinsically probabilistic.

Current methods to check for increased pressure in a patient’s brain are invasive. One widely used technique is to drill a hole in the skull to insert a catheter or sensor into the brain tissue.

A team including the scientist who first harnessed the CRISPR-Cas9 system for mammalian genome editing has now identified a different CRISPR system with the potential for even simpler and more precise genome engineering.