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May 22, 2018
New evidence suggests a drop-off in results after the age of 17
The Economist
May 10, 2018
Excerpt: Those who want to learn a foreign language, or want their children to, often feel they are racing against the clock. People seem...
The Economist
May 10, 2018
Excerpt: Those who want to learn a foreign language, or want their children to, often feel they are racing against the clock. People seem...
May 2, 2018
The Cognitive Neuroscience Society (CNS) awarded Prof. Elizabeth Spelke with the 2018 George A. Miller Award during teh CNS 2018 Annual Meeting, on March 25, 2018, in Boston, MA.
The George A. Miller Prize in Cognitive...
The George A. Miller Prize in Cognitive...
May 2, 2018
Anne Trafton | MIT News Office
May 1, 2018
Excerpt: A great deal of evidence suggests that it is more difficult to learn a new language as an adult than as a child, which has led scientists to propose that there is a “critical...
May 1, 2018
Excerpt: A great deal of evidence suggests that it is more difficult to learn a new language as an adult than as a child, which has led scientists to propose that there is a “critical...
April 25, 2018
MIT cognitive scientist recognized for her work on the organization of the human brain.
Julie Pryor | McGovern Institute for Brain Research
April 24, 2018
Nancy Kanwisher, the Walter A. Rosenblith Professor of Cognitive...
Julie Pryor | McGovern Institute for Brain Research
April 24, 2018
Nancy Kanwisher, the Walter A. Rosenblith Professor of Cognitive...
April 20, 2018
While Poggio the teacher has taught some extraordinary leaders in AI, Poggio the scientist is renowned for his theory of deep learning, presented in papers with self-explanatory names: Theory of Deep Learning I, II and III.
Those...
Those...
April 19, 2018
Neuroscientists train a deep neural network to analyze speech and music.
Anne Trafton | MIT News Office
Using a machine-learning system known as a deep neural network, MIT researchers have created the first model that can...
Anne Trafton | MIT News Office
Using a machine-learning system known as a deep neural network, MIT researchers have created the first model that can...
April 6, 2018
by Shannon Fischer
Go is an ancient board game that demands not only strategy and logic, but intuition, creativity, and subtlety—in other words, it’s a game of quintessentially human abilities. Or so it seemed, until Google’s...
Go is an ancient board game that demands not only strategy and logic, but intuition, creativity, and subtlety—in other words, it’s a game of quintessentially human abilities. Or so it seemed, until Google’s...
April 6, 2018
The UNC School of Medicine has awarded the 18th Perl-UNC Neuroscience Prize to Winrich Freiwald, PhD, of The Rockefeller University and Doris Y. Tsao, PhD, of the California Institute of Technology for the discovery of brain...
April 4, 2018
We're very excited to announce the publication of the Brains, Minds, and Machines Summer Course on MIT OpenCourseWare!
Preparing this course to be released on OCW was a large task which required the help of many individuals....
Preparing this course to be released on OCW was a large task which required the help of many individuals....
March 27, 2018
"MIT scientist among three recognized for the discovery of optogenetics
by Julie Pryor
Ed Boyden, the Y. Eva Tan Professor in Neurotechnology at MIT, has been named a recipient of the 2018 Canada Gairdner International Award —...
by Julie Pryor
Ed Boyden, the Y. Eva Tan Professor in Neurotechnology at MIT, has been named a recipient of the 2018 Canada Gairdner International Award —...