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Simons Center for the Social Brain at MIT
Schedule
Wednesday, September 9, 2026
4:00 PM America/New_York
Host
Simons Center for the Social Brain at MIT
Duration
60 minutes
Yuko Munakata presents evidence challenging capacity-only accounts of self-control and explains how experience, effort, and expected payoff shape executive-function engagement and later outcomes.
Emerging NeuroTech: Ultrasound in Neuroscience
Two talks present emerging applications of ultrasound technology in neuroscience, spanning brain imaging and human-machine interaction. The in-person seminar is open to MIT researchers, students…
Emerging NeuroTech: Ultrasound in Neuroscience
MIT researchers and students are invited to two talks on emerging applications of ultrasound for non-invasive brain imaging, neural modulation and wearable human-machine interaction.
Building a Brain, One Cell at a Time: Reading the Developmental Instructions Behind Human Neural Diversity
Tom Nowakowski explains lineage barcoding and single-cell sequencing approaches for reconstructing neural stem-cell family trees and early wiring programs in developing mouse and human brains.
Transcription and chromatin
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A new view of plankton in the global ocean: celebrating 10 years of Tara Oceans
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Chemical biology 2026
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Research Assistant (Part Time, Fixed Term)
Applications are invited for a research assistant position in the lab of Dr. Sepiedeh Keshavarzi at the Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience…
Post-Doc — University of Vienna
We have an open position for a postdoctoral researcher with experience in brain-computer interfacing and artificial intelligence to further advance our new class of Brain-Artificial Intelligence…
Pathways to Enable Secure Open-Source Ecosystems (PESOSE)
NSF support for creating, strengthening and sustaining secure open-source ecosystems that advance scientific and technological innovation and broaden participation.
NIH Director’s Transformative Research Award (R01 Clinical Trial Optional)
The NIH Common Fund supports individuals or teams pursuing exceptionally innovative, unconventional research with the potential to create or overturn major paradigms across biomedical and behavioral…
Wellcome Discovery Awards
Funding for established researchers and teams from any discipline to pursue bold, creative research that can deliver significant shifts in understanding related to human life, health and wellbeing.
Yuko Munakata
Simons Center for the Social Brain at MIT