BrainWorks

At BrainWorks, our mission is to advance fundamental, discovery-science research to understand how the human brain and body support cognition and behavior. We do this by providing and integrating cutting-edge experimental and analytical human-neuroscience methods and by fostering a community with shared values of maximizing scientific excellence, collaboration, and openness.

BrainWorks houses all major neurotechnologies for non-invasive studies of the human brain and supports a community of researchers who can share and learn from each other. By providing access to a comprehensive set of tools and supportive expertise, BrainWorks empowers researchers to develop big questions, knowing that the most appropriate tool will be available.

Revealing how the human brain works is fundamental to understanding cognition. In healthy humans, this means studying the brain non-invasively and often indirectly, from the outside in. Emerging technologies have improved the precision of these measurements in space and time, and novel analysis methods have increased the richness of information that can be extracted about what someone is thinking, remembering, or deciding in laboratory and naturalistic settings.

BrainsWorks gathers established and emerging technologies for non-invasive imaging of the brain to extend our understanding of human cognition. Built with a playful design and directly accessed from the rear of 100 College Street, BrainWorks welcomes participants of all ages, from infants to adults. Furthermore, spacious suites and collaborative audiovisual systems create space for exceptional training opportunities, from undergraduate class projects to intensive hands-on researcher experience collecting MRI and MEG data. Equipment housed across five interconnected suites provides complementary, multimodal views of the mind, brain, and behavior across temporal and spatial scales.