Placing too much emphasis on a specific interpretation of dimensionality may lead neuroscience down the wrong path.

As Kempner Institute Research Fellows Wilka Carvalho, T. Anderson (Andy) Keller, and Gabriel Poesia conclude their fellowships this month, the Institute bids farewell to three scholars whose work has ...

The Kempner brings leading, early-stage postdoctoral scientists to Harvard to work on projects that advance the fundamental understanding of intelligence.

Functional synapse clusters (FSCs) are synapses with correlated presynaptic activity that are colocalized on the same neuronal dendritic branch. FSCs have been observed after learning in cortical and ...

Cambridge, MA — The Kempner Institute for the Study of Natural and Artificial Intelligence today announced the names of 16 students chosen as the incoming 2026 cohort of Kempner graduate […]

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A survey of more than 400 LGBTQIA+ neuroscientists reveals challenges and actionable steps institutions can take to foster inclusion.

The Kempner Institute for the Study of Natural and Artificial Intelligence at Harvard is pleased to announce the 2026 cohort of scholars awarded placement in the Kempner Institute Post-Baccalaureate P...

People generally only engage in reciprocal generosity with others of equal or unknown status, MIT researchers experimentally demonstrated. During repeated interactions between people of different soci...

Allston, MA — The Kempner Institute recently hosted its inaugural Post-Baccalaureate Capstone Event, celebrating the first four scholars as they near completion of the Kempner Post-Baccalaureate Progr...

A theory of efficient coding wherein the precision of representations is endogenous, task-dependent, and prior-dependent predicts scaling laws for imprecision and is supported by numerosity perception...

A new spin on an old genre replaces flesh-and-blood monsters with the mundanity of modern bureaucracy.

Brain activity patterns in the ventral visual cortex appear to distinguish images across 12 categories, including birds and trees, fMRI scans suggest.

Humans learn abstractions and use them to plan efficiently to quickly generalize across tasks -- an ability that remains challenging for state-of-the-art large language model (LLM) agents and deep rei...

Amid the rise of billion-parameter models, I argue that toy models, with just a few neurons, remain essential—and may be all neuroscience needs.

Even as Atte Kadoma and Isaias Ghezae are immersed in demanding PhD programs at Harvard, being  resident advisor brings balance to their lives and enriches both their student experience and their…

Predictive theories of cognitive mapping propose that these representations encode the predictive relationships among contents as experienced by the n…