As executive director of research at Harvard Medical School, Soha Ashrafi supports more than 300 scientists, students and staff members.

This workshop will convene researchers from artificial intelligence, neuroscience, cognitive science, and related disciplines to examine the principles governing learning and training dynamics across ...

Model-free RL agents trained on simple tasks can be evaluated by whether or not they achieve their simple rewards, but complex open-ended environments demand richer analysis. ForageWorld introduces a ...

We explored how to measure the similarity between two complex systems when they are driven by external inputs, like biological neural circuits or reinforcement learning agents. Our novel method, calle...

If neuroscience is serious about building general principles of brain function, cross-species dialogue must become a core organizing principle.

Which new tools—including artificial intelligence, deep-learning methods, genetic tools and advanced neuroimaging—are making the largest impact?

Neural manifold properties can help us understand how animal brains deal with complex information, execute flexible behaviors and reuse common computations.

6 likes, 0 comments - crearte.ca on July 28, 2025: "When a neurobiologist is also a comic artist, science can have a whole new storyline. In a 2022 collaboration between the Rajan Lab at Harvard Med...

In his new book, Nachum Ulanovsky calls on the field to embrace naturalistic conditions and move away from overcontrolled experiments.

New brain-inspired hardware, architectures and algorithms could lead to more efficient, more capable forms of AI.

Today, President Biden awarded nearly 400 scientists and engineers the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), the highest honor bestowed by the U.S. government on outst...

The Transmitter’s first book, “Thinking about neuroscience: Essays from the field,” features a rich collection of writing from researchers Nicole Rust, Anthony Zador and many more.

The Rajan Lab integrates brain research with AI, by using real neuroscience data to build flexible, complex computational models of the brain.

The brain may be chaotic. Does that mean our efforts to control it are doomed?

Neuronal activity arises from an interaction between ongoing firing generated spontaneously by neural circuits and responses driven by external stimuli. Using mean-field analysis, we ask how a neural ...