When you’re at a loud party, how does your brain pick out the voice of a person nearby? Neuroengineer Nima Mesgarani studies how your brain does this with the goal of building a better hearing aid that reads your mind.
By investigating the phenomenal memory of chickadees, Dmitriy Aronov brings a fresh approach to studying how our own brains remember. Now he’s being recognized as one of the nation’s top early-career scientists.
New research from Columbia’s Zuckerman Institute reveals the importance of memory in driving key social behavior and offers insight into psychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia.
The research suggests these unusually small, squat mitochondria help neurons grow and make proper connections in the developing brain. The work could open up new lines of inquiry into what may be at play when these processes go awry in brain disease.
A new Columbia study finds that overnight the brain automatically preserves memories for important events and filters out the rest, revealing new insights into the processes that guide decision making and behavior.