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Héctor De Jesús-Cortés, a @MIT_Picower Institute postdoc, is working to build a STEM pipeline for students in his native Puerto Rico — including a precollege summer program at MIT. “I want students to be exposed to opportunities,” he says. https://t.co/ZVEwEG7TRb
"How can I help?" That simple question after Hurricane Maria led @mitbrainandcog and @MIT_Picower researcher @HecDJC and his wife to help students in Puerto Rico, including a new summer program at MIT.

Supporting students in Puerto Rico after a hurricane’s devastation
Postdoc Héctor De Jesús-Cortés works to build up the STEM pipeline from his homeland to MIT and beyond.
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This Helmet Will Save Football. Actually, Probably Not.

This Helmet Will Save Football. Actually, Probably Not.
At Stanford, David Camarillo chases the dream of a helmet that can prevent brain disease related to playing football. It’s filled with water. Re...
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This @mitbrainandcog graduate student working in @MIT_Picower balances studies on understanding decisions with community-building efforts to promote diversity and inclusion in science.

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“K. Guadalupe Cruz’s path into neuroscience began with storytelling. “For me, it was always interesting that we are capable of keepi...
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Dissecting beta-state changes during timed movement preparation in Par...

Dissecting beta-state changes during timed movement preparation in Parkinson‘s disease
An emerging perspective describes beta-band (15-28âHz) activity as consisting of short-lived high-amplitude events that only appear sustained in ...
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Frontal cortex neuron types categorically encode single decision variables

Frontal cortex neuron types categorically encode single decision varia
Frontal cortex neurons can be grouped into categorical response types corresponding to particular decision variables, such as reward size, decision co...
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When scientists put slime mold over a map of Tokyo, with food used to represent urban areas, and after a day the mold created a network nearly identical to Tokyo's rail network: all this without any brain https://t.co/v5iBESZUGK
Congratulations to @DrLiHueiTsai on her election as a fellow of the National Academy of Inventors! @AcadofInventors #neuroscience @ScienceMIT @mitbrainandcog
Tsai elected fellow of National Academy of Inventors
Honor notes innovations in research addressing Alzheimer’s disease
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Focused Representation of Successive Task Episodes in Frontal and Parietal Cortex

Focused Representation of Successive Task Episodes in Frontal and Parietal Cortex
Abstract. Complex cognition is dynamic, with each stage of a task requiring new cognitive processes appropriately linked to stimulus or other content...
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