Walter A. Rosenblith

MIT associate professor Evelina Fedorenko studies the brain's language processing regions: how they arise, how they're affected by different kinds of input, and how each contributes to language comprehension.

MIT neuroscientists have identified a population of neurons in the human brain that light up when we hear singing, but not other types of music.

Professor Emeritus Richard Wurtman, a neuroscientist who spent more than four decades on the MIT faculty, died at age 86. Wurtman led research behind 200 patents, laying the groundwork for numerous medical products.

MIT neuroscientists discovered a population of food-responsive neurons located in the ventral visual stream, alongside populations that respond specifically to faces, bodies, places, and words.

For the first time, neuroscientists have identified a population of neurons in the human brain that light up when we hear singing, but not other types of music.

MIT cognitive neuroscientist Nancy Kanwisher received the 2022 National Academy of Sciences Award in the Neurosciences for her "pioneering research into the functional organization of the human brain."

MIT researcher Jessica Chomik-Morales hopes to inspire the next generation of Spanish-speaking scientists with her podcast, Mi Ultima Neurona.

MIT neuroscientists have found that when artificial intelligence is tasked with visually identifying objects and faces, it assigns specific components of its network to face recognition – just like the human brain.