Weber's law is a rare quantitative regularity in psychology, yet its origins remain debated. Here we provide causal evidence that it arises from the more fundamental principle of efficient coding. Thi...

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Michael Mehringer is paralyzed from the neck down. Researchers at TUM are working to enable him to regain greater autonomy.

Researchers at TUM have mapped and demonstrated the process of visual perception at the cellular level in the brain.

Germany has the opportunity to extend its strength as an engineering powerhouse into medicine and the life sciences. Vasilis Ntziachristos

KI-Gehirn-Chip bei Querschnittlähmung: Was bringt ein in das Gehirn implantierter Chip Menschen mit Querschnittlähmung mehr an Lebensqualität und Mobilität?

The brain-computer interface is real. It's changing lives—and could soon change the world.

A team at the Technical University of Munich’s TUM University Hospital has implanted a brain-computer interface in a patient paralyzed from the neck down.

The neurotransmitter dopamine plays a major role in learning by acting as a teaching signal to update the brain's predictions about rewards. A leading theory proposes that this process is analogous to...

Recent advances in neuroscience have revealed how neural population activity underlying behavior can be well described by topological objects called neural manifolds. Understanding how nature, nurture...

The Technical University of Munich (TUM) continues to rank first in the "THE University Impact Ranking" category of industry, innovation, and infrastructure.

The Technical University of Munich (TUM) has again moved up in the QS World University Rankings and now holds the 22nd position worldwide.

Modular organization, the division of the cerebral cortex into functionally distinct subregions, is well established in the primate sensorimotor cortex, but debated in the cognitive association cortex...