Keith Hengen, assistant professor of biology in Arts & Sciences, received a McKnight Scholar Award from the McKnight Foundation. The award supports neuroscientists in the early stages of their careers who are focusing on disorders of learning and memory. Read more.
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Brain tunes itself to criticality, maximizing information processing
Researchers long wondered how the billions of independent neurons in the brain come together to reliably build a biological machine that easily beats the most advanced computers. All of those tiny interactions appear to be tied to something that guarantees an impressive computational capacity. Over the past 20 years, evidence mounted in support of a […]
Hengen named 2018 Allen Institute Next Generation Leader
From the WashU Newsroom… Keith Hengen, assistant professor of biology in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, was selected by the Allen Institute as a 2018 Next Generation Leader. Hengen is one of six early-career neuroscientists who will participate in a special advisory council for the Allen Institute for Brain Science, a […]
WashU Spaces: Keith Hengen
Using cutting-edge technology, big data and caffeine to discover how neurons interact From the WashU Newsroom… Have you ever confused a coffee cup for a pen? Or a mango? Or your Aunt Beatrice? Of course not. Sure, maybe you once poured coffee into your cereal. But that’s because you were distracted or sleepy, not because […]
