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The Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, engages in fundamental research in the areas of brain and neural systems, and cognitive processes.[1] The department is within the School of Science at the MIT and began initially as the Department of Psychology founded by the psychologist Hans-Lukas Teuber in 1964.[2][3] In 1986 the MIT Department of Psychology merged with the Whittaker College integrating Psychology and Neuroscience research to form the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences.[4]
The department aims to understand the basic processes of intelligence and brain processes. It has four main themes of research:[5]
The Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences work in close collaboration with the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and the Computer Science department and the Centre for Biological and Computational Learning at the MIT.[8][5]
The Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences has had several prominent scientists. These include:
Researcher | Field |
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Steven Pinker | Cognitive Psychologist [10] |
Tomaso Poggio | Mathematical Cognitive Scientist [11] |
Joshua Tenenbaum | Mathematical Cognitive Psychologist [12] |
Suzanne Corkin | Neuro-psychologist [13] |
Emilio Bizzi | Neuroscientist [14] |
Rebecca Saxe | Psychologist [15] |
Roland William Fleming | Experimental Psychologist [16] |
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