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… professorships. Troy Littleton , the Menicon Professor in Neuroscience in the departments of Biology and Brain and Cognitive Sciences:   Littleton works to understand the …

… in total cell number may underlie some of the sensory and cognitive declines associated with normal brain aging. … In their experiments published online in the Journal of Neuroscience they also show that they could restore a … author Elly Nedivi , a professor of biology and brain and cognitive sciences. “Rather it seems that structural …

… something in mind for a while was the highest level cognitive phenomenon people were studying, but that’s all … well as areas, like the prefrontal cortex, that engage in cognitive  information processing. Miller’s lab observed that … of all that we know, memory’s importance as a subject of neuroscience research remains  undeniable. The progress …

… Now, in a paper published in the journal  Nature Neuroscience , researchers at the Picower Institute for … 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 …

… regions in animals, the team’s new study in the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience provides a unifying view of how brain waves, … experiments,” said Earl Miller , Picower Professor of Neuroscience in The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory …

… environment,” says Mriganka Sur , the Newton Professor of Neuroscience in MIT’s Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, a member of MIT’s Picower Institute for … the prefrontal cortex, where planning and other higher cognitive functions occur. “The surprise-encoding function of …

… and reliable,” said Mriganka Sur , Newton Professor of Neuroscience in MIT’s Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences and senior author of the new study in the Journal of Neuroscience. “The same neurons should be firing in the same …

… cleverness to see it in ways that answer many crucial neuroscience questions. Sometimes it’s enough to put a … target of psychiatric drugs. Deeper insight For studies of cognitive abilities such as how mice learn to act on … with enough resolution and speed to capture meaningful neuroscience measurements. A key limitation to overcome, …

… Dr. Bloodgood earned her B.Sc. in Animal Physiology and Neuroscience from UC San Diego in 2001 and her Ph.D. from the …