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Rebecca Saxe and team discuss how face-selective areas of the brain might emerge.

Many patients with neuropsychiatric disorders such as anxiety or depression experience negative moods that lead them to focus on the possible downside of a given situation more than the potential benefit. MIT neuroscientists have now pinpointed a brain region that can generate this type of pessimistic mood. In tests in animals, they showed that stimulating […]

James DiCarlo and his team help define goals for primate-like object recognition by artificial neural networks.

Recent studies from the McGovern Institute map non-motor tasks in the cerebellum and find disrupted connectivity in autism spectrum disorder.

“There’s a slogan in education,” says McGovern Investigator John Gabrieli. “The first three years are learning to read, and after that you read to learn.” For John Gabrieli, learning to read represents one of the most important milestones in a child’s life. Except, that is, when a child can’t. Children who cannot learn to read […]

McGovern Institute investigator Michale Fee has been selected to receive a 2018 McKnight Technological Innovations in Neuroscience Award for his research on “new technologies for imaging and analyzing neural state-space trajectories in freely-behaving small animals.” “I am delighted to get support from the McKnight Foundation,” says Fee, who is also the Glen V. and Phyllis […]

A study out of the Desimone lab finds that covert attention and attentional neuronal firing are linked to microsaccades.

Fact or Myth: There are specific periods in childhood after which certain things can no longer be learned.

Precise chemical delivery to brain microstuctures.

Research proposals from Laurie Boyer, associate professor of biology; Matt Shoulders, the Whitehead Career Development Associate Professor of Chemistry; and Feng Zhang, associate professor in the departments of Brain and Cognitive Sciences and Biological Engineering, Patricia and James Poitras ’63 Professor in Neuroscience, investigator at the McGovern Institute for Brain Research, and core member of […]