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we want to know how the mind works

MIT's Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences stands at the nexus of neuroscience, biology and psychology. We combine these disciplines to study specific aspects of the brain and mind including: vision, movement systems, learning and memory, neural and cognitive development, language and reasoning. Working collaboratively, we apply our expertise, tools, and techniques to address and answer both fundamental and universal questions about how the brain and mind work.

don't you?


Brain regions activated for thinking about other people's thoughts in sighted adults (top), and in congenitally blind adults (bottom). Image/ Saxe Lab.

Spotlights
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Thinking of you
Based on studies involving the blind, MIT neuroscientists have some surprising new insights about how people make inferences about others' state of mind. Read More >>

The man and his vision
It is nice to spot a familiar face in a crowd of unknowns. But how do we do that? And why do people who recover sight after years of blindness continue to have problems with perception? These are some of the questions Pawan Sinha and his lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are trying to unfold. Read More >>