Undergraduates from colleges across the country gain scientific training, mentorship and experience as participants in the MIT Summer Research Program

The visual cortex stores and remembers individual images, but when they are grouped into a sequence, mice can’t recognize that without guidance from the hippocampus

Long thought of as a generic alarm system, the locus coeruleus may actually be a sophisticated regulator of learning and behavior, an MIT team posits

To quickly express genes needed for learning and memory, brain cells snap both strands of DNA in many more places and cell types than previously realized, a new study shows

RPB Walt and Lilly Disney Award will support efforts to develop new therapeutic approach

As ‘visual recognition memory’ emerges in visual cortex, one circuit of inhibitory neurons supplants another and slower neural oscillations prevail

Selective global honor supports researchers in new scientific pursuits

At symposium, science and stories converge on harms of early exposure to trauma, racism but also restorative power of understanding, nurturing, and extending opportunity

Climate action aims to drive down estimated greenhouse gas emissions to no more than half of pre-pandemic levels

Surprising findings can help improve organoid cultures, explain role of GSK3-beta in brain development

Machine learning software advances could help anesthesiologists optimize drug dose

Simultaneous measurement of neural rhythms and spikes across five brain areas in animals reveals how propofol induces unconsciousness