Technique may enable speedy, on-demand design of softer, safer neural devices.
March 30, 2020
http://news.mit.edu/2020/engineers-3d-print-brain-implants-0330
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A neural highway to human motor control
Summary:High-speed link in the brain inhibits movement.
Source:Neuron (2020)
13 March 2020
‘Zombie’ brain cells develop into working neurons
Summary: Genetically preventing apoptosis during brain growth allows ‘zombie’ cells to develop into functioning neurons.
Source: Francis Crick Institute
March 11, 2020
How the brain encodes landmarks that help us navigate
Summary:Neuroscientists discover how a key brain region combines visual and spatial information to help us find our way.
Source:Anne Trafton, MIT News Office
March 10, 2020
http://news.mit.edu./2020/brain-encodes-landmarks-navigate-0310
The neural basis of sensory hypersensitivity
Summary:A new study may explain why people with autism are often highly sensitive to light and noise.
MIT neuroscientists have discovered a brain circuit that appears to contribute to the sensory hypersensitivity often seen in people with autism spectrum disorders.
Source:Anne Trafton, MIT News Office
March 2, 2020
http://news.mit.edu./2020/neural-basis-of-sensory-hypersensitivity-0302
Bridging the gap between human and machine vision
Summary:Researchers develop a more robust machine-vision architecture by studying how human vision responds to changing viewpoints of objects.
Source:Kris Brewer,Center for Brains, Minds and Machines
February 11, 2020
http://news.mit.edu./2020/bridging-gap-between-human-and-machine-vision-0211
Mice ‘detectives’ hint at how humans read between the lines
Summary: Humans and mice use inference skills to solve problems in a remarkably similar manner.
Source: Champalimaud Center for the Unknown
February 11, 2020
A teenager’s body clock can ring in school success
Summary:When lessons start at 7:45 a.m., morning-loving students do better than those who naturally wake up later.
Source:Nature Hum. Behav. (2020)
10 February 2020
Organoids show the brain’s cognitive centre taking shape
Summary:Brain models in a dish offer clues to molecular signals involved in the human forebrain’s development.
Source:Science (2020)
23 January 2020
With these neurons, extinguishing fear is its own reward
Summary:The same neurons responsible for encoding reward also form new memories to suppress fearful ones.
Source:David Orenstein,Picower Institute
January 21, 2020
http://news.mit.edu./2020/with-these-neurons-extinguishing-fear-its-own-reward-0121