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Artistic rendering of a topographic map of the human brain with a compass in bottom right corner.

Finding the way

Three MIT professors named 2024 Vannevar Bush Fellows

Four MIT faculty named 2024 HHMI Investigators

Man leaning against MIT column with Boston skyline in background.

Mehrdad Jazayeri selected as an HHMI investigator

Just thinking about a location activates mental maps in the brain

Illustrated time concept as a group of clock objects shaped as a human head with gears and cog wheels as the brain.

The brain runs an internal simulation to keep track of time

The brain may learn about the world the same way some computational models do

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The brain may learn about the world the same way some computational models do

Illustration of mouse looking at a question mark and light bulb.

Study decodes surprising approach mice take in learning

Modeling the social mind

Tracking time in the brain