# Picower Institute for Learning and Memory
**Domain:** Neuroscience / Learning / Memory / Cognition
**Doc Type:** Institution Node
**Parent Institution:** [[MIT]]
**Related:** [[Earl K. Miller]], [[Emery N. Brown]], [[Brain-Computer Interfaces]], [[Neural Mapping]]
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## Definition
The **Picower Institute for Learning and Memory** is an MIT neuroscience research institute focused on the mechanisms of learning, memory, cognition, development, and brain health.
## Corpus Context
The institute is the research home of Earl K. Miller and publishes primary institutional accounts of the neural-wave research examined in [[articles/Analog Cognition and the Architecture of Continuity|Analog Cognition and the Architecture of Continuity]]. Its reporting is useful for the authors' framing and research chronology; the peer-reviewed paper remains the primary scientific record.
## Sources / Provenance
- [Picower Institute for Learning and Memory](https://picower.mit.edu/)
- [Cognition and consciousness arise from analog computations, says new theory](https://picower.mit.edu/news/cognition-and-consciousness-arise-analog-computations-says-new-theory)