MIT Theses: Recent submissions

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    • Models and Tools for Studying Infants’ Attention 

      Raz, Gal (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2025-02)
      From birth, infants actively control where they look, long before they gain any significant motor control over other body parts. This early emergence of attentional preferences has allowed psychologists to use infants' ...

    • Neural correlates of trait mindfulness 

      Treves, Isaac N. (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2025-02)
      There is a clear and present need to identify the brain biological bases of mental health and mental illness. In this thesis, I focus on the brain bases of trait mindfulness, measured using self-report. Mindful individuals ...

    • Postnatal specialization of astrocyte regional heterogeneity in the mammalian brain and improved tools for studying glia 

      Schroeder, Margaret E. (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2025-02)
      Astrocytes are an abundant class of glial cells with critical roles in neural circuit assembly and function. Though many studies have uncovered significant molecular distinctions between astrocytes from different brain ...