Congrats to Will Li for Graduating! July 21, 2023 MORE Will received his MD/PhD along with the Michael Apuzzo Prize Fund for Creativity and Innovation Award and the William Malamud Prize Fund. He recently began his residency in psychology at Yale!

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New paper out in Science! November 16, 2021 MORE

  Read the paper here: https://www.science.org/stoken/author-tokens/ST-116/full. This is what Raymundo had to say about the study:   Q: Why did you decide to conduct this study, and how would you summarize the most important points?   A: I’ve been fascinated with social interactions all my life. During my PhD research I Ziv's Conte Center talk on studying social cognition in humans January 15, 2021 MORE

Ziv gives a press conference at SFN 2019 on theory of mind November 19, 2019 MORE

Congrats to Emma for winning best poster at NeuroBoston 2019! November 19, 2019 MORE Congratulations to Will for receiving a poster award at the APSA meeting April 28, 2017 MORE Congrats to Keren for SfN Gruber International Research Award September 6, 2016 MORE The Society for Neuroscience (SfN) will award the Peter and Patricia Gruber International Research Award in Neuroscience to Keren Haroush, PhD, of Harvard Medical School and Jerry L. Chen, PhD, of the University of Zurich. The award recognizes two promising young scientists for outstanding research and educational pursuit in an Mind-Reading Neurons September 3, 2016 MORE Every day we make decisions based on predicting what someone else will do—from deciding whether the driver approaching an intersection will stop for the red light to determining whether a particular negotiation strategy will result in a desired outcome. Now a study by Harvard Medical School investigators at Massachusetts General Hospital Congrats to Ray for recent fellowship awards! September 1, 2016 MORE Congratulations for Raymundo Baez for receiving the NARSAD fellowship and the MGH fellowship! Mind-Reading Neurons Video September 3, 2016 MORE

Master monkey's brain controls sedated 'avatar' September 4, 2016 MORE The brain of one monkey has been used to control the movements of another, "avatar", monkey, US scientists report. Brain scans read the master monkey's mind and were used to electrically stimulate the avatar's spinal cord, resulting in controlled movement. The team hope the method can be refined to allow paralysed people Congrats to Mohsen for receiving the Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship September 12, 2016 MORE Congratulations to Mohsen for receiving the Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship. The Banting Postdoctoral Fellowships program provides funding to the very best postdoctoral applicants, both nationally and internationally, who will positively contribute to the country's economic, social and research-based growth. Congrats to Gabe for receiving the HHMI Medical Research Fellows Program September 4, 2016 MORE The HHMI Medical Fellows Program gives students a chance to focus on a research project full-time and determine how they can incorporate research into their professional careers. Brilliant 10: Maryam Shanechi decodes the brain to unlock its potential September 4, 2016 MORE Maryam Shanechi used to study wireless communications systems. Now she investigates a far more complex network: the billions of neurons that make up the human brain. Shanechi, a neuroengineer at the University of Southern California, is trying to crack the neural code to develop better brain-machine interfaces. Existing devices simply translate Future-predicting neurons discovered in the brain September 4, 2016 MORE We meet in a pub, we have a few drinks, some dinner and then you lean in for a kiss. You predict, based on our previous interactions, that the kiss will be reciprocated – rather than landing you with a slap in the face. All our social interactions require us to