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Singing in the brain: Baby birds' chirps use different neural pathway
April, 2008
Much like human babies, juvenile songbirds babble before they master complex vocalizations of their adult tutors. The Fee lab found that zebra finches use two distinct neural pathways for generating songs -- one for babbling early in life and one for singing in adulthood.
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Ed Boyden named Sloan Research Fellow
Winter, 2008
Ed Boyden, associate member of the McGovern Institute, was one of seven junior MIT faculty to win a 2008 Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Research Fellowship.
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Christopher Moore catches rats’ twitchy whiskers in action
February 27, 2008
New technology for high-speed movies provide the first glimpse of the whiskers’ micromovements underlying the rat’s tactile perception, which is closely related to the human sense of touch.
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DiCarlo Sees Design Flaws in Computer Vision Tests
January 25, 2008
DiCarlo's team proposes new object recognitions tests that more closely reflect the real-world variability encountered by the visual system.
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Culture influences brain function, brain imaging shows
January 11, 2008
An fMRI study led by John Gabrieli found that people from different cultures use their brains differently to solve the same visual perceptual tasks.
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Does fMRI work the same way in young children as in adults?
November 30, 2007
MIT study shows how fMRI and neural signals develop in young animals.
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MIT to study genes’ role in mental illness
October 22, 2007
The McGovern Institute establishes the Poitras Center for Affective Disorders Research with a $20 million commitment from MIT alumnus James Poitras and his wife Patricia.
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Thinking with Blood
October 11, 2007
Christopher Moore proposes that blood flow helps the brain compute information.
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See also the summer 2007 issue of the Brain Scan newsletter
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Law and Neuroscience
October 9, 2007
Robert Desimone participates in MacArthur Foundation's $10 Million Law and Neuroscience Project.
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Pliable perception: The adult brain can change
September 5, 2007
New evidence from a stroke patient shows that brain region for vision can reorganize after an injury.
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Maturity brings richer memories.
August 5, 2007
John Gabrieli's fMRI studies show that children rival adults in forming basic memories, but adults do better at remembering the rich, contextual details of that information.
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Brain has a ‘teacher’ and a ‘tinkerer’
June 4, 2007
Emilio Bizzi collaboration learns that a noisy brain may help learning.
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New, High Resolution MRI Machine Comes to Campus
June 2007
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Martha Constantine-Paton’s lab discovers a new pathway for synaptic plasticity in the developing brain.
May 2007
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Tommy Poggio's lab models how we recognize object categories after just a fleeting glimpse.
April 2007
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Scolnick Prize awarded to David Julius
February 2007
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Charles Jennings appointed director of the new McGovern Institute Neurotechnology (MINT) Program.
December 2006
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Alan Jasanoff received prestigious McKnight technology award
August 2006
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Ann Graybiel Honored for Research on Parkinson's Disease
June 2006
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Christopher Moore discovers how whisker barrels help blind rats see
March 2006
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The Poggio and DiCarlo labs find new patterns in the brain
February 2006
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Martha Constantine-Paton makes a suprising find about how the brain wires visual circuits
January 2006
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