Center for Brain Science

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News and Featured Publications

• 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….
• GSAS highlights Buckner lab student
  Wendy Sun, an MD/PhD student in BBS, is profiled for her work in the CBS Neuroimaging Core…
• Swartz Postdoctoral Fellowship
  We have one opening for a Swartz Postdoctoral Fellow, beginning in summer or fall of 2024….
• Ölveczky lab paper makes the cover of October Nature Neuroscience
  Describes circuit mechanisms of complex motor sequences…