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Nancy Kanwisher finds brain region that responds to images of the human body
September 2001
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Wales report in the Sept. 28 issue of Science
that they have identified a part of the brain that responds primarily to images of the human body or parts of the body.
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Emilio Bizzi reports motor area of brain involved in learning as well as acting
July 2001
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology found that a subpopulation of brain cells in the part of the cortex
that controls movements acquires novel firing patterns while an animal learns a new set of voluntary movements.
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Bob Horvitz finds active new role for cell 'undertakers' in cell death
July 2001
Certain cells previously thought to be merely undertakers are actually the Jack Kevorkians of the cell world,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers report in the July 12 issue of Nature.
Read the article at MIT Tech Talk
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Tommy Poggio finds individual brain cells 'tuned' to entire categories of information
January 2001
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology found that individual neurons in monkeys' brains can
become tuned to the concept of "cat" and others to the concept of
"dog".
Read the article at MIT News
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