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MIT Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences professors Ev Fedorenko, Ted Gibson, and Roger Levy believe they have an answer to a fundamental question: What is the purpose of language?
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MIT Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences professors Ev Fedorenko, Ted Gibson, and Roger Levy believe they have an answer to a fundamental question: What is the purpose of language?
A new study bridging neuroscience and machine learning offers insights into the potential role of astrocytes in the human brain. Artificial neural networks are ubiquitous machine-learning models that can be trained to complete many tasks. Their name stems from the fact that their architecture is
MIT students in the club dynaMIT teach STEM principles to under-resourced middle school students from the Boston area for free.
Neurotypical humans readily optimize performance in ‘reversal learning’ games, but while mice learn the winning strategy, they refuse to commit to it, a new MIT study shows. The research provides a mathematical way to track the rodents’ more mixed tactics.
Although Misa Suzuki grew up deaf in Japan, it wasn’t until she was 20 years old and attended a linguistics presentation that she began to fully