The Society for Neuroscience named MIT Picower Professor Mark Bear a co-recipient of the 2023 Julius Axelrod Prize for his synaptic plasticity research, its translation to potential amblyopia and autism treatments, and his career of mentorship.
Because figuring out what is new and what is familiar in what we see is such a critically important ability for prioritizing our attention, neuroscientists have spent decades trying to figure out how our brains are typically so good at it. Along the
Scientists have invested decades in piecing together how our vision is so good at recognizing what’s familiar. A new MIT study overcomes an apparent discrepancy in data to reveal a new insight into how it works.