Using sound to model the world

This machine-learning system can simulate how a listener would hear a sound from any point in a room.

Adam Zewe | MIT News Office • mit
Nov. 1, 2022 ~8 min

After a lifetime of blindness, newly sighted can immediately identify human locomotion

Study on blind patients who recovered their sight suggests rethinking the belief that babies learn to recognize human movement through visual exposure.

Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences • mit
Oct. 18, 2022 ~6 min


Celebrating 20 years of discovery, Picower Institute looks ahead to continuing impact

At an exhibition marking two decades since a transformative gift from the Picower Foundation, current and alumni members described research at the forefront of neuroscience and beyond.

David Orenstein | Picower Institute for Learning and Memory • mit
Oct. 12, 2022 ~15 min

With fractured genomes, Alzheimer’s neurons call for help

Study indicates ailing neurons may instigate an inflammatory response from the brain’s microglia immune cells.

David Orenstein | Picower Institute for Learning and Memory • mit
Oct. 4, 2022 ~8 min

Providing new pathways for neuroscience research and education

Payton Dupuis finds new scientific interests and career opportunities through MIT summer research program in biology.

Leah Campbell | School of Science • mit
Sept. 29, 2022 ~8 min

Understanding reality through algorithms

Neuroscience PhD student Fernanda De La Torre uses complex algorithms to investigate philosophical questions about perception and reality.

Leah Campbell | School of Science • mit
Sept. 25, 2022 ~10 min

MIT cognitive scientists win Ig Nobel for shedding light on legalese

Edward Gibson and Eric Martinez are among this year's winners of the satiric prize, for explaining what makes legal documents so difficult to comprehend.

Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences • mit
Sept. 16, 2022 ~3 min

Study reveals how environment and state are integrated to control behavior

A simple animal model shows how stimuli and states such as smells, stressors, and satiety converge in an olfactory neuron to guide food-seeking behavior.

David Orenstein | Picower Institute for Learning and Memory • mit
Sept. 15, 2022 ~8 min


How the brain focuses on what’s in mind

When holding information in mind, neural activity is more focused when and where there are bursts of gamma frequency rhythms.

David Orenstein | Picower Institute for Learning and Memory • mit
Sept. 13, 2022 ~7 min

Studies of autism tend to exclude women, researchers find

A commonly used screening test creates a gender gap that may hinder diagnosis and treatment for women and girls.

Anne Trafton | MIT News Office • mit
Sept. 8, 2022 ~7 min

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