Connectome: How the Brain's Wiring Makes Us Who We Are
Connectome: How the Brain's Wiring Makes Us Who We Are
On April 4, 2012, Sebastian Seung, MIT professor of computational neuroscience and of physics, offered his thoughts on the brain's wiring and how it influences personality and answered questions from the worldwide MIT alumni community.
Telling the Stories of Science Panel 1
Telling the Stories of Science Panel 1
Attention and Memory: How the Brain Does What It Does
Magnetoencephalography (MEG) animation
Magnetoencephalography (MEG) animation
Magnetoencephalography (MEG) is a technique for mapping brain activity by recording magnetic fields produced by electrical currents occurring naturally in the brain, using arrays of SQUIDs (superconducting quantum interference devices). Applications of MEG include basic research into ...
Meet James DiCarlo
Meet James DiCarlo
James DiCarlo, an investigator at the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT, examines the complex network of brain regions that allow us to recognize vast numbers of objects rapidly and effortlessly. Learn more about James DiCarlo >>
Meet Michale Fee
Meet Michale Fee
Michale Fee, an investigator at the McGovern Institute for Brain Research, studies birdsong in order to understand how the brain learns and generates complex sequences of behavior. Learn more about Michale Fee [images courtesy of pond5]
Profile: Polina Golland
Polina Golland - The quantifier
By helping biologists turn their hunches into rigorous mathematical models, Polina Golland builds software that interprets medical images. Read more about Golland's work at http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2012/profile-golland-0112.html
Meet Ed Boyden
Meet Ed Boyden
(4:27) Ed Boyden, a member of the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT, develops new strategies for manipulating brain activity. He uses a wide variety of technologies to find new and more potent ways to alter brain function, for both research and therapeutic purposes. A major goal of ...
Networks Understanding Networks, Pt. 2
Networks Understanding Networks, Pt. 2: Ed Boyden
Ed Boyden: "Neural Networks Understanding Neural Networks"
The Neuroscience of Conflict
World Pieces: The Neuroscience of Conflict
A study of conflict resolution through neuroscience with Emile Bruneau and Rebecca Saxe. By Kenrick Vezina, Gillian Conahan and Emily Ruppel.
How Artificial Intelligence Learns From Biological ...
How Artificial Intelligence Learns From Biological Intelligence (MIT ...
How artificial intelligence learns from biological intelligence An introduction to computational neuroscience. For the MIT K-12 Outreach pilot study. By Evan Ehrenberg
The Good Side of Nightmares
The Good Side of Nightmares
The average person dreams several hundred times a week. Most are about relatives, friends, colleagues and loved ones. Most of the time, nothing special happens - and we tend to forget most dreams. However, once in a while people wake up screaming or sweating from dreams so frightening that ...
Optogenetics: Controlling the brain with light
Optogenetics: Controlling the brain with light
This animation illustrates optogenetics — a radical new technology for controlling brain activity with light.
Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Disease
Li-Huei Tsai, PhD2011 An Afternoon with MIT's Brains on Brains Symposium MIT's Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences stands at the nexus of neuroscience, biology and psychology. Our world-renowned neuroscientists and cognitive scientists study the brain and mind at every level, from ...