McGovern Institute
@mcgovernmit
MIT research institute committed to understanding the brain in health and disease.
ID: 85601670
https://mcgovern.mit.edu 27-10-2009 16:14:32
2,2K Tweet
8,8K Takipçi
1,1K Takip Edilen
Drawing on evidence from neurobiology, cognitive science, and corpus linguistics, researchers Ev (like in 'evidence', not Eve) Fedorenko 🇺🇦 Ted Gibson, Language Lab MIT steven t. piantadosi make the case today in @nature that language is a tool for communication, not for thought. MIT Science MIT Brain and Cognitive Sciences mcgovern.mit.edu/2024/06/19/wha…
At the Transformational Strategies in Mental Health symposium, experts agreed that emerging technologies could help achieve better diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders. Discover insights from McGovern Institute and MIT Open Learning: bit.ly/3z780ts
This week, The New York Times Carl Zimmer asks Ev (like in 'evidence', not Eve) Fedorenko 🇺🇦 whether we need language to think. MIT Brain and Cognitive Sciences nytimes.com/2024/06/19/sci…
A cognitive strategy focused on social good may be effective in helping people cope with distressing events, according to a PLOS ONE paper by John Gabrieli + postdoc Nancy Tsai. MIT Brain and Cognitive Sciences MIT Science mcgovern.mit.edu/2024/06/25/a-n…
Former McGovern Fellow + #CRISPR scientist Omar Abudayyeh might have one of the coolest license plates in Massachusetts. mcgovern.mit.edu/2024/07/22/lic…
A huge congrats to Mehrdad Jazayeri for being named an HHMI Investigator today! Professor Jazayeri is among 26 new #HHMIinvestigators, including MIT Picower Institute colleague Steve Flavell. Congrats to all! MIT Science MIT Brain and Cognitive Sciences
From banana farming to computational neuroscience, Mehrdad Jazayeri has taken an unusual path to MIT. Learn more about his journey, his fascinating research, and his future plans as a newly appointed #HHMIInvestigator👇 mcgovern.mit.edu/2024/07/23/meh… MIT Science MIT Brain and Cognitive Sciences
“Imagination: There’s no magic to it; it’s a pattern of activity in the brain,” according to Mehrdad Jazayeri. Read the full story The Transmitter 👇 thetransmitter.org/cognitive-neur…
Congrats to Suchita Nety for winning Rosalind Franklin Society Award in Biotechnology and Regenerative Medicine! The award recognizes outstanding published peer-reviewed research by women and underrepresented minorities. Read her award-winning paper The CRISPR Journal 👇 ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…
Please join us in congratulating Chenjie Shen for winning a prestigious Simons Foundation Independence Award! As a Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative Fellow, Chenjie aims to develop genome editing-based therapeutic approaches for neurodevelopmental disorders. sfari.org/people/chenjie…
Using data collected from direct human brain recordings, a team of scientists led by Ev (like in 'evidence', not Eve) Fedorenko 🇺🇦 Fedorenko has found distinct neuron clusters that process words and sentences on different timescales. mcgovern.mit.edu/2024/08/26/sci…
Exciting news from Oslo! Nancy Kanwisher @[email protected] has received the The Kavli Prize in Neuroscience at a royal ceremony in Norway with her fellow laureates Doris Tsao + Winrich Freiwald. Family and friends were present for the festivities - cheers to all! 🥂
The Harnett lab has learned how neurons preserve their understanding of some of the world’s most fundamental features, while also maintaining the flexibility they need to adapt to a changing world. mcgovern.mit.edu/2024/09/05/fin… MIT Science MIT Brain and Cognitive Sciences Cell Reports