Center for Brain Science

Events

News and Featured Publications

• Margaret Livingstone receives Rosenstiel Award for Basic Medical Research
  Congratulations to Marge on this award, which she shares with Winrich Freiwald, Nancy Kanwisher, and Doris Tsao! Follow the link to read more….
• Jacob Zavatone-Veth receives American Physical Society Dissertation Award
  Congratulations to Jacob on receiving the 2024 Dissertation Award in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. Follow link for more information…
• Jacob Zavatone-Veth receives NIH Director’s Early Independence Award
  Congratulations to Jacob, a Junior Fellow in Harvard’s Society of Fellows! The award will fund his work on recurrent neural network theory. Follow the link to more information….
• Nick Bellono receives SfN Young Investigator Award
  Congratulations to Nick and his entire lab on this well-deserved honor! Follow the link to more information….
• Sam Gershman named Schmidt Science Polymath
  Congratulations to Sam on this apt award! It will fund an expansion of his research on learning and memory in single-cell organisms….
• How the tempo of sequence memories can be set by learning rules
  Farrell M and Pehlevan C. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2024 Aug 6;121(32):e2309876121. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2309876121…
• Film about 2024 Brain Prize winners
  Follow the link to the 10-minute film called “The Brain Prize 2024 Ceremony film,” which features Haim Sompolinsky with cameos by others in the Harvard community. It isn’t about the ceremony; it’s an impressionistic portrait of the prizewinners….
• Human cortex connectome
  Team led by Jeff Lichtman unveils connectome of a slab of human temporal cortex containing all six layers. Links to paper, gallery, and Boston Globe article…