August 27, 2015Young brains can take on new functions by Anne Trafton | MIT News Office In 2011, MIT neuroscientist Rebecca Saxe and colleagues reported that in blind adults, brain regions normally dedicated to vision processing instead participate in language tasks such as speech and comprehension.
July 9, 2015MRIs for a more peaceful world by Liz Karagianis | MIT Spectrum An MRI scanner is an unusual tool for resolving war and conflict, but an MIT collaboration now underway is deploying MRIs as an instrument for peace.