Congratulations to Marge on this award, which she shares with Winrich Freiwald, Nancy Kanwisher, and Doris Tsao! Follow the link to read more….
Takao Hensh awarded Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon
Congratulations to Takao, whose decoration notes that he “contributed to the promotion of scientific exchange and mutual understanding between Japan and the United States.”…
Catherine Dulac made Officer of the Légion d’honneur
Congratulations to Catherine who, having been appointed in 2022, was awarded the medal in Boston on October 26, 2024!…
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…
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…
Haim Sompolinsky awarded The Brain Prize
Haim, Larry Abbott, and Terry Sejnowski received the 2024 award for their “pioneering contributions to the field of computational and theoretical neuroscience” and “seminal contributions to our understanding of the principles that govern the brain’s structure, dynamics and the emergence of cognition and behaviour.” Follow the link for more information….
Marge Livingstone awarded Scolnick Prize
The McGovern Institute at MIT announced that the 2024 Edward M. Scolnick Prize in Neuroscience will be awarded to Margaret Livingstone, Takeda Professor of Neurobiology at Harvard Medical School….