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At the MIT Quantitative Methods Workshop, a weeklong introduction to how computational and mathematical techniques can be applied to neuroscience and biology research, students gain new skills and make new connections.
The MIT Simons Center for the Social Brain catalyzes multiperspective, multiscale research collaborations to understand the neural mechanisms underlying social cognition and behavior.
MIT Professor Emeritus Peter Schiller, a pioneering researcher of the visual system, has died at 92. His career included fundamental discoveries about how visual scenes and stimuli are processed from the retina through the cortical visual system.
A growing number of studies are showing beneficial clinical effects from noninvasive stimulation of gamma rhythms in the brain, but clinical evidence remains preliminary and animal studies have been instructive, but not definitive.
The MIT School of Science awarded professors Roger Levy, Pulin Li, and David McGee teaching prizes for exceptional undergraduate and graduate instruction.