of brain and neural systems, and cognitive processes. The department is within the School of Science at the MIT and began initially as the Department...
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Laura Schulz (category Cognitive development researchers)
Schulz is a professor of cognitive science at the brain and cognitive sciences department of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is the principal...
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Prizes. The Department of Biology (Course 7) began as a department of natural history in 1871. The Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences (Course 9)...
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to modular brain organization. One of the fundamental concepts of cognitive science is that "thinking can best be understood in terms of representational...
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Fan Wang (neuroscientist) (category Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences)
neuroscientist and professor in the MIT Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences. She is an investigator at the McGovern Institute for Brain Research. Wang...
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Songyee Yoon (category Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni)
from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's (MIT) department of brain and cognitive sciences in 2000, at the age of 24, becoming the youngest Korean...
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CogNet, The Brain and Cognitive Sciences Community Online, MIT Cognitive Neuroscience Arena, Psychology Press Cognitive Neuroscience and Philosophy, CUJCS...
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and animal research, including MRI, EEG and MEG. The McGovern Institute occupies approximately 85,000 sq ft (net) within the MIT Brain and Cognitive Sciences...
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Brain on Music describes the components of music, such as timbre, rhythm, pitch, and harmony and ties them to neuroanatomy, neurochemistry, cognitive...
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MD–PhD (redirect from Doctorate of Medicine and of Philosophy)
computational neuroscientist and Head of the MIT Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences Alfred G. Gilman — Recipient of the 1994 Nobel Prize in Physiology or...
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The MIT Department of Biology ("Course VII") is a center for research and teaching in the life sciences. Many members of the faculty hold joint appointments...
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corner of campus supporting research into biology, brain and cognitive sciences, genomics, biotechnology, and cancer research; and a number of new "backlot"...
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Susan Hockfield (category Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences)
Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, a Joint Professor of Work and Organization Studies in MIT’s Sloan School of Management, and a member of the Koch...
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MIT including the MIT Media Lab, the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, and...
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Henry Molaison (category People with brain injuries)
Dicarlo, Head, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT". Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences. Brain and Cognitive Sciences. August 9, 2016...
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Embodied cognitive science is an interdisciplinary field of research, the aim of which is to explain the mechanisms underlying intelligent behavior. It...
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Suzanne Corkin (category Massachusetts Institute of Technology School of Science faculty)
professor of neuroscience in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT. She was a leading scholar in neuropsychology and cognitive neuroscience...
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Nancy Kanwisher (category Fellows of the Cognitive Science Society)
Rosenblith Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a researcher...
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history in 1871. The Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences (Course IX) began as the Department of Psychology in 1964. The Department of Chemistry (Course...
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The MIT Department of Economics is a department of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Undergraduate studies in economics...
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Karl H. Pribram (category Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences)
visionary pioneer in the fields of cognitive psychology, cognitive science, neuropsychology, holonomic brain theory, and holographic consciousness. He was...
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and Sequence Press. In 2000, the MIT Press created CogNet, an online resource for the study of the brain and the cognitive sciences. In 1981, MIT Press...
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the cognitive neuroscience revolution. Synthese, 195, 1941–1967. Kosslyn, S. (1994). Image and brain: The resolution of the imagery debate. MIT Press...
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The MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (SHASS) is one of the five schools of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, located in Cambridge...
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Drazen Prelec (category MIT Sloan School of Management faculty)
Department of Economics and in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT as well. He is a pioneer in the field of neuroeconomics. Prelec studied...
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Feng Zhang (category Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences)
James and Patricia Poitras Professorship in Neuroscience at the McGovern Institute for Brain Research and in the Departments of Brain and Cognitive Sciences...
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The Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT is an engineering department of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge...
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David Rumelhart (category Fellows of the Cognitive Science Society)
decades of rules and associations, or whatever happened to the past tense debate." Language, the brain, and cognitive development: Papers in honor of Jacques...
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Metaphysical naturalism (redirect from Philosophy of naturalism)
product of natural processes, three conclusions follow according to W. T. Stace. Cognitive sciences are able to provide accounts of how cultural and psychological...
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Newton Howard (category American cognitive neuroscientists)
a brain and cognitive scientist, the former founder and director of the MIT Mind Machine Project at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He...
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