Brain and cognitive sciences professor studies how the human mind is able to learn so rapidly.

How people interpret musical notes depends on the types of music they have listened to, researchers find.

How the humanities, arts, and social science fields can help shape the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing — and benefit from advanced computing.

PhD student Carolyn Stein explores the impact of scientists being “scooped” when a competing research team publishes results first.

MIT welcomed the Class of 2023 with an initiative to reduce the impact of water consumption through reusable water bottles and other sustainable habits.

Graduate student Ensign Christian Montgomery participated in this year’s International Burn Camp as part of an effort to support and inspire young people living with burn scars. “My scar is just something on my skin,” he said. “It’s not any deeper than that.”

MIT researchers have identified a brain circuit that suppresses distracting information. They hope the work will lead to “a better understanding of how body and mind ... are deeply and inextricably intertwined.”

MIT researchers have found that the ability to detect musical octaves “is not really all that natural. It’s a skill we got from being surrounded by music in which the octave is an important element.”