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September 19, 2019
How people interpret musical notes depends on the types of music they have listened to, researchers find.
Anne Trafton | MIT News Office
People who are accustomed to listening to Western music, which is based on a system of notes...
Anne Trafton | MIT News Office
People who are accustomed to listening to Western music, which is based on a system of notes...
September 10, 2019
By Chrissy Sexton
Earth.com staff writer
In a new study published by the Society for Research in Child Development, experts have found that children are taking notice of how adults face challenges and the amount of effort they...
Earth.com staff writer
In a new study published by the Society for Research in Child Development, experts have found that children are taking notice of how adults face challenges and the amount of effort they...
September 9, 2019
Study reveals brain regions that respond differently to the presence of background noise, suggesting the brain progressively hones in on and isolates sounds.
by Sabbi Lall | McGovern Institute for Brain Research
In a busy coffee...
by Sabbi Lall | McGovern Institute for Brain Research
In a busy coffee...
August 21, 2019
We view ourselves and others as causal agents who pursue goals and act efficiently to make things happen, but where do these intuitions come from? In a new paper funded by the Center for Brains, Minds and Machines and published...
July 24, 2019
Bringing together artificial intelligence and neuroscience promises to yield benefits for both fields.
Chethan Pandarinath wants to enable people with paralysed limbs to reach out and grasp with a robotic arm as naturally as they...
Chethan Pandarinath wants to enable people with paralysed limbs to reach out and grasp with a robotic arm as naturally as they...
July 21, 2019
“We have all heard that Patrick died yesterday in his sleep. I am writing with tears in my eyes. This is a sad day for me and also for MIT and for CBMM.
For me, Patrick and MIT have always been together. When I arrived at MIT...
For me, Patrick and MIT have always been together. When I arrived at MIT...
June 17, 2019
Learning to code involves recognizing how to structure a program, and how to fill in every last detail correctly. No wonder it can be so frustrating.
A new program-writing AI, SketchAdapt, offers a way out. Trained on tens of...
A new program-writing AI, SketchAdapt, offers a way out. Trained on tens of...
June 10, 2019
Results of study involving primates suggest that speech and music may have shaped the human brain’s hearing circuits.
Monday, June 10, 2019
NIH | National Institutes of Health
In the eternal search for understanding what makes us...
Monday, June 10, 2019
NIH | National Institutes of Health
In the eternal search for understanding what makes us...
May 22, 2019
ARLINGTON, VA, UNITED STATES
Story by Warren Duffie Office of Naval Research
How can the neuroscience behind emotion lead to new concepts of artificial intelligence? How does the human brain make fast decisions in real-world...
May 2, 2019
To find out which sights specific neurons in monkeys "like" best, researchers designed an algorithm, called XDREAM, that generated images that made neurons fire more than any natural images the researchers tested. As the images...