When and where did humans develop language? To find out, look deep inside caves, suggests MIT professor and linguist Shigeru Miyagawa.
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Study finds engaging young children in conversation is more important for brain development than “dumping words” on them.
MIT Neuroscientists discover a cellular pathway that encodes memories by strengthening specific synapses.
Like learning, teaching requires expertise. Too often faculty are not given the time, opportunity, or right incentives to develop their teaching skills.
Funding is available to MIT faculty to support educational innovations in pre-K12, higher education, and workplace learning.
New Institute-wide initiative will advance human and machine intelligence research. MIT will strive to answer the question, "how does human intelligence work?"
“We assume people are rational, and we assume people are logical, but they are really not," says MIT's Zhou.
MIT neuroscientists have found evidence that the brain’s ability to control what it’s thinking about relies on low-frequency brain waves known as beta rhythms.
Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab initiative aims to help U.S. education leaders identify technology-based solutions to key challenges in education.
The new program, launched during a Solve competition at MIT, is called the Refugee Action (ReACT) Certificate Program.