Cognition and Motivation | Picower Institute

Picower Institute scientists study behaviors and cognitive processes including learning, memory, emotion, reasoning and consciousness. To learn more about these or other areas of inquiry, select them under Research Topics and you'll find relevant Picower people, discoveries and events.

December 20, 2018

Research findings

Study may lead to a better understanding of the digestive tract’s nervous system

December 11, 2018

Research findings

Going back to a scene makes engram cells more electrically excitable

December 5, 2018

Picower People

CMU award recognizes 'physician-scientist'

December 4, 2018

Research findings

Open-source system provides for fast, accurate neural decoding

November 13, 2018

Recent Events

Researchers take part in field's largest annual exchange of ideas

October 24, 2018

Research findings

Brain rhythms have crucial role in maintenance and control

October 15, 2018

Picower People

Miller will deliver lecture in San Francisco in March

October 9, 2018

Research findings

SAP102 shapes decay of postysnaptic currents

September 30, 2018

Research findings

Using fewer drugs can improve post-operative pain, side effects

August 8, 2018

Research findings

How do we hold and juggle multiple pieces of information in mind?

July 12, 2018

Q&A

From the Center for Brains Minds and Machines to the MIT Quest for Intelligence

July 10, 2018

Research Findings

Six brain regions participate in a more blended way than has been appreciated