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Michale Fee studies the neural mechanisms of sequence generation and learning. He is faculty in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and an [...]

The McKnight technology award supports scientists using novel and creative approaches to understanding brain function. McGovern Institute investigator Michale Fee has been selected to receive [...]

A new algorithm, called seqNMF, can detect sequences in neural data generated by ‘internal behaviors,’ such as an animal thinking or sleeping. Listening to Mozart’s iconic “Turkish [...]

In 2002, Morven and Michael Heller from London, a generous and philanthropic family, decided to donate an annual sum of 15,000 pounds to establish at the ICNC a high profile series of lectures [...]

Emily Mackevicius comes to work in the early morning because that’s when her birds are most likely to sing. A graduate student in the lab of McGovern Investigator Michale Fee, she is studying [...]

Award will support studies into how the brain learns and generates complex sequential behaviors, with a focus on the songbird as a model system. Michale Fee, the Glen V. and Phyllis F. Dorflinger [...]

The School of Science recently announced the winners of its 2016 Teaching Prizes for Graduate and Undergraduate Education. The prizes are awarded annually to School of Science faculty members who [...]

Neuroscientists identify neural patterns birds use to learn their songs. Male zebra finches, small songbirds native to central Australia, learn their songs by copying what they hear from their [...]

MIT research provides new insights about trial-and-error learning Learning complex skills like playing an instrument requires a sequence of movements that can take years to master. Last year, MIT [...]

MIT work with songbirds could aid study of humans’ timing As anyone who watched the Olympics can appreciate, timing matters when it comes to complex sequential actions. It can make a [...]