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… our memories and associate them with meaning? How do we control our minds, for instance to pay attention? How do we … (All Images by Rose Lincoln). To understand the basis of cognitive flexibility, Yale Professor Jessica Cardin, a … onslaught of sensory inputs as well as changes in your cognitive and behavioral context.” In her research, for …

… Neuroscience in MIT’s Departments of Biology and Brain and Cognitive Sciences. “How they accumulate at active zones was …

… says Gloria Choi , an associate professor of brain and cognitive sciences at MIT and a member of the Picower … for example, is whether pathogens might attempt to exert control over the animals’ behavior and stimulate them to …

… map of how the animal’s nervous system is organized to control behavior,” said senior author Steven Flavell , Associate Professor in MIT’s Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences. “It shows how the many defined nodes that … insights, more fully mapping out the neural circuits that control each of the animal’s behaviors. These new findings …

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… prefrontal cortex consciousness synapse oscillations cognitive neuroscience … or see what you need to remember and must then hold or control it in mind to apply it later. During that interim, or … of working memory, including efficient, independent control of multiple items with precise timing. Importantly, …

… (EEG). “If you do it this way, you have better control of nociception and you can get the same amount of … Science and a professor in MIT’s Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences and Harvard Medical School. “Patients wake … are profoundly unconscious with less good antinociceptive control,” he said. “If the anesthesiologist is not monitoring …

… Professor in MIT’s Departments of Biology and Brain and Cognitive Sciences. Humans need at least some Perlecan to … junction synapses of a motor neuron in an unaltered control fly larva remain perfectly healthy over a four day …

… faculty liaison, and Professor Jim DiCarlo, Brain and Cognitive Sciences Department Head, to solve the problem. … electrical signals of neurons as animals perform various cognitive tasks. In particular he’s been looking at how … deeper layers appear to carry the brain’s expectations and control whether it encodes new sensory information in …

… Tye, an assistant professor in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT and a member of the Picower … prefrontal cortex is thought to be important for higher cognitive processes,” Tye says. “So if I am walking down the … should make every effort to understand how several regions control a complex behavior, according to Rony Paz, an …