Center for Brain Science

Events

News and Featured Publications

• 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…
• NTT Research gift establishes CBS-NTT Fellowship Program
  Gift supports postdoctoral research in the physics of intelligence…
• Glutamate inputs send prediction error of reward, but not negative value of aversive stimuli, to dopamine neurons
  Amo R, Uchida N, Watabe-Uchida M. Neuron. 2024 Jan 22:S0896-6273(23)00979-0. doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2023.12.019. PMID: 38278147…