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… 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 …

… underlying attention attention arousal prefrontal cortex cognitive control Vincent Breton-Provencher, a postdoc in the lab of … cortices, and their involvement in sustained attention and cognitive flexibility. His experiments will seek to determine …

… Professor of Neuroscience in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences and a founder of MIT’s Aging Brain … the brain region that processes sight, than experimental control mice did. Amyloid plaques and tangles of …

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

… regions in animals, the team’s new study in the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience provides a unifying view of how brain … oscillating patterns of the activity of brain cells, may control the flow of information throughout the cortex. “When … alpha and beta alternately inhibit, or release, gamma to control the encoding of information – a form of top-down …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… Engineering and Science, and the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, has signed the Roll Book of the nation’s … approach can reduce post-operative complications, such as cognitive dysfunction. In a new research endeavor at MIT and MGH, the Brain Arousal State Control Innovation Center, Brown is working to establish more …