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Research at MPI CBS revolves around #human #cognitive abilities & processes in the #brain, with focus on functions like #language, #memory, #emotions & #action.

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Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences @mpicbs.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
🎸Faster, harder, louder - that's how metal fans celebrate their music at #Wacken Open Air. Lydia Schneider & Tom Fritz conducted a field study right on site to find out whether and how the festival experience & listening to #heavymetal live affect the audience’s #pain tolerance: tinyurl.com/5cjdvjrf
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Metalheads Can Endure Pain Longer Thanks to the Festival Experience
Metalheads Can Endure Pain Longer Thanks to the Festival Experience
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Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences @mpicbs.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
The #brains of #blind people reorganize differently than previously thought: a Polish-German team of researchers from the @jagiellonskiuni.bsky.social & @lenastroh.bsky.social @nikweiskopf.bsky.social shows how the lack of visual experience affects the maturation of the brain. tinyurl.com/yrfa7scv
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The brains of blind people reorganize differently than previously thought
The brains of blind people reorganize differently than previously thought
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ScaDS.AI Dresden/Leipzig @scadsai.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
We want to present the winning projects of the “ScaDS.AI Early Career Innovation Projects on the Future of AI” and start with @numole.bsky.social from @scadsai.bsky.social and @mpicbs.bsky.social and his project “NIBSdose.ai – AI-Driven Personalization of Noninvasive Brain Stimulation.”
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ScaDS.AI Early Career Innovation Projects: NIBSdose.ai - ScaDS.AI
First up is Dr. Ole Numssen from ScaDS.AI, Leipzig University, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, whose project “NIBSdose.ai – AI-Driven Personalization of Noninvasive Brain ...
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Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences @mpicbs.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Have you ever heard a #child proudly say “Schau mal, zwei Hünde!” What sounds amusing to us shows how hard forming plurals is for a 3yo. Cheslie Klein, Charlotte Grosse Wiesmann & Angela Friederici show how maturation of #neural pathways in 🧠 is linked to form plural of #words. tinyurl.com/2mm5y5sy
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How “Highways” in the Brain Help Young Children Form Plurals
How “Highways” in the Brain Help Young Children Form Plurals
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Fei Wang @ffeiwang.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
1/N: Dear colleagues, I would like to share a new paper on the subiculum, part of my PhD with the Neural Computation Group @andrejbicanski.bsky.social @mpicbs.bsky.social . We present “A theory of subicular function and generalized vector coding” that we call Disco. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences @mpicbs.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Mehr zu unserem #Leibniz Preisträger Christian Doeller @doellerlab.bsky.social hier zum Reinhören 😀💫🏅: www.mdr.de/wissen/leibn...
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Dieser Mann kennt das Navi in Ihrem Kopf | MDR.DE
Unser Gehirn hat ein eingebautes Navigationssystem: Es hilft uns, Wege zu finden und sogar Wissen zu ordnen. Der Neurowissenschaftler Christian Doeller hat dieses System entschlüsselt und erhält dafür...
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Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft @dfg.de · 18/03/2026
Der Moment ist gekommen! 🏅 Heute ehren wir 10 herausragende Wissenschaftler*innen mit dem #LeibnizPreis 2026 der DFG! 👏 Für ihre bahnbrechenden Arbeiten und Verdienste in ihren Fachrichtungen erhalten sie je 2,5 Mio. € zur Förderung ihrer Forschung. Herzlichen Glückwunsch an alle Preisträger*innen!
Die 10 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz-Preisträger*innen 2026 auf der Bühne.
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Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft @dfg.de · 18/03/2026
🎉Heute feiern wir 10 herausragende Wissenschaftler*innen und verleihen ihnen den Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz-Preis im Leibniz-Saal der @bbaw.bsky.social in Berlin. Jetzt die spannenden Persönlichkeiten und ihre Forschung kennenlernen im Livestream ➡️ www.youtube.com/live/awY3vT0...
DFG-Präsidentin Katja Becker auf der Bühne des Leibniz-Preises.
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Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft @dfg.de · 18/03/2026
@mpicbs.bsky.social @tuda.bsky.social @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social @embl.org @tuberlin.bsky.social @tum.de @uni-muenster.de @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social @uni-hamburg.de
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Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft @dfg.de · 18/03/2026
Heute um 16 Uhr geht es los: Die Verleihung der Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz-Preise 2026 im Leibniz-Saal der @bbaw.bsky.social in Berlin. Alle Interessierten können im Livestream dabei sein. 🤩 🎦▶️ www.youtube.com/@DFGbewegt
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Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft @dfg.de · 16/03/2026
#SaveTheDate Ein Abend für wissenschaftliche Exzellenz. ✨ Am Mittwoch verleihen wir die Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz-Preise 2026. Wir freuen uns, die 10 Preisträger*innen zu feiern, die die Forschung in besonderer Weise prägen: 18. März 2026, 16 Uhr – auch im Live-Stream hier: sohub.io/wxnp
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Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft @dfg.de · 16/03/2026
@mpicbs.bsky.social @tuda.bsky.social @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social @embl.org @tuberlin.bsky.social @tum.de @uni-muenster.de @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social @uni-hamburg.de
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Theo Schäfer @theoschaefer.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
Happy to share this early Christmas present 🎄: our paper about geometry- and locomotion-dependence of 3D memory got published in PNAS! Joint work with co-first-author Volker Reisner (@reisnerv.bsky.social) as well as Leonard König, Misun Kim & Christian Doeller www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/
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Volker Reisner @reisnerv.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
We’re very happy to share that our work on 3D spatial memory was published in PNAS just before the end of the year! 🎉 Link: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... (1/8)
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
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University of Colorado Boulder (CU Boulder) @colorado.edu · 08/01/2026
Did you know that imagining a positive encounter with someone can make you like them more? New research led by CU Boulder and @mpicbs.bsky.social found that the brain responds to imagined events in similar ways to real experiences. Explore the findings ↓ bit.ly/3Y8WyGQ
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Your brain on imagination: Study reveals how the mind's eye helps us learn and change
A new study shows that merely imagining a positive encounter with someone can make you like them better by engaging brain regions involved with learning and
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Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences @mpicbs.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Unser Direktor Christian Doeller @doellerlab.bsky.social erhält den #LeibnizPreis 2026 🤩 Ausgezeichnet wird er für seine Arbeiten in den Kognitiven #Neurowissenschaften und der #Psychologie, mit denen er wertvolle Erkenntnisse über die Struktur des menschlichen #Denkens liefert. tinyurl.com/4ffk7jur
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Christian Doeller erhält Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz-Preis 2026
Christian Doeller erhält Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz-Preis 2026
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Max-Planck-Gesellschaft @maxplanck.de · 11/12/2025
Wir freuen uns sehr, dass Klaus Blaum, Christian Doeller und Johannes Krause in diesem Jahr mit Leibniz-Preisen geehrt werden. Die #LeibnizPreise der DFG gelten als wichtigste deutsche Forschungspreise. 👏 @dfg.de
Die Leibniz-Preisträger 2025 von links nach rechts: Klaus Blaum, Christian Doeller und Johannes Krause. Fotos: © Stefanie Aumiller, Steffen Roth, Thomas Victor
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Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences @mpicbs.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Wow! We're celebrating the exciting news 🍾 Huge congratulations to our director Christian Doeller @doellerlab.bsky.social for receiving Germany's most prestigious research award! 🤩 #LeibnizPreis #researchaward
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Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences @mpicbs.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Your #brain on imagination: Study reveals how the mind’s eye helps us learn and change - @rolandbenoit.bsky.social from @colorado.edu and Aroma Dabas from MPI CBS show that merely imagining a positive encounter with someone can make you like them better: tinyurl.com/bde6ttwk
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Your brain on imagination: Study reveals how the mind’s eye helps us learn and change
Your brain on imagination: Study reveals how the mind’s eye helps us learn and change
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Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences @mpicbs.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Lars Meyer receives #ERC Consolidator Grant from @erc.europa.eu 🥳 For his project "Language in Balance: an Imprint of Brain Electrophysiology? (BALANG)”, Lars Meyer @languagecycles.bsky.social receives funding of up to 2 million euros over the next 5 years. Huge congratulations! tinyurl.com/4a5y78nz
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Lars Meyer receives ERC Consolidator Grant from the EU
Lars Meyer receives ERC Consolidator Grant from the EU
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Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences @mpicbs.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
When #AI “thinks” like us - New research out now in @nature.com from @lukasmut.bsky.social & @lampinen.bsky.social & @tuberlin.bsky.social & @mpib-berlin.bsky.social forms a bridge between #human and #machine representation. tinyurl.com/nhd4ycsh
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When AI “thinks” like us
New research forms a bridge between human and machine representation
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Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences @mpicbs.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Noise as a Signal – Moritz Gerster, Vadim Nikulin & Arno Villringer analysed data from 119 patients & discovered a new electrical signature of #Parkinson’s Disease, now published in @ebiomedicine.bsky.social: www.cbs.mpg.de/2412209/2025... #parkinsontherapy #clinicalstudy
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Noise as a Signal – A New Electrical Signature of Parkinson’s Disease
Noise as a Signal – A New Electrical Signature of Parkinson’s Disease
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Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences @mpicbs.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Imagine chatting at a party & trying to #listen to your friend while others #talking – difficult, isn’t it? Vivien Barchet & @gesahartwigsen.bsky.social with @ae.mpg.de & @uniluebeck.bsky.social show what happens in the 🧠 when we try to focus on one 🗣️ while ignoring another: tinyurl.com/3pkrs4zm
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Focusing on one voice requires both listening and ignoring
Focusing on one voice requires both listening and ignoring
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Nature Aging @nataging.nature.com · 16/10/2025
Genomic study of brain age in 56,348 people identifies 59 genetic loci, links brain aging to mental and phys health, and suggests high blood pressure and T2D as causal factors of brain aging #brainage @pjawinski.bsky.social @humboldtuni.bsky.social @mpicbs.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s43...
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Genome-wide analysis of brain age identifies 59 associated loci and unveils relationships with mental and physical health - Nature Aging
This genomic study of magnetic resonance imaging-based brain age in 56,348 people identifies 59 genetic loci, links brain aging to mental and physical health, and suggests high blood pressure and type...
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Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences @mpicbs.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
🔎Wir suchen zum nächstmöglichen Zeitpunkt eine engagierte und kompetente Persönlichkeit für die Verwaltungsleitung (m/w/d) in Vollzeit | unbefristet | #Leipzig Bitte hier bewerben: recruitingapp-5218.de.umantis.com/Vacancies/43...? #wissenschaft #administration #career #maxplanck
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Verwaltungsleitung (m/w/d) | Karriereportal Max-Planck-Institut für Kognitions- und Neurowissenschaften
Verwaltungsleitung (m/w/d) | Karriereportal Max-Planck-Institut für Kognitions- und Neurowissenschaften
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Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences @mpicbs.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
New approach to preventing #social #isolation 🔎 - Laurenz Lammer and @veronicawitte.bsky.social show that common #public health strategies that focus only on isolated people might be missing out on a lot of the preventive potential of greater social integration: www.cbs.mpg.de/2403543/2025...
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New approach to preventing social isolation
New approach to preventing social isolation
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Sofie Valk @sofievalk.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Very happy to announce that I have been awarded the ERC starting grant for my proposal SOCIAL CONNECTIONS (SOCO). Super grateful for the support and feedback from my team, friends, colleagues and institutions @mpicbs.bsky.social and @fz-juelich.de along the way 😍 erc.europa.eu/news-events/...
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Daniel Reznik 🎶 @reznikdaniel.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Beyond thrilled to share that I've been awarded an ERC Starting Grant to study the role of the human entorhinal cortex in episodic memory! 🎉🎉 🥳 🥳 🧠 🧠 Many thanks to my friends, colleagues and institutions who supported me along the way! @erc.europa.eu #ERCStG
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Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences @mpicbs.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Huge congratulations 🥳 to @sofievalk.bsky.social & @reznikdan.bsky.social for receiving ERC Starting Grants 2025! We're proud of you! Learn more about their projects: www.cbs.mpg.de/2397348/2025...
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Sofie Valk and Daniel Reznik receive ERC Starting Grants
Sofie Valk and Daniel Reznik receive ERC Starting Grants
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Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences @mpicbs.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Criminal minds in #dementia: Broad meta-analysis by Matthias Schroeter & Lena Szabo in @nature.com including 236,360 persons. They found that larger atrophy in the brain is linked to criminal behavior in frontotemporal dementia, suggesting a loss of normal behavioral restraints. tinyurl.com/4dt6jd7s
Criminal minds in dementia
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Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences @mpicbs.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
What counts - you or me? #Babies remember what is important to others 👶🏻 Adults remember information better if it relates to themselves. Charlotte Grosse Wiesmann & collegues investigated how this self-reference effect develops in infancy @nature.com : www.cbs.mpg.de/2386835/2025...
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What counts - you or me? Babies remember what is important to others
What counts - you or me? Babies remember what is important to others
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Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences @mpicbs.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
🧠👩‍🔬🤖🧏‍♀️💬 Come around! Tonight from 6pm on we have a mixed program filled with #neuroscience #brainscience #neurology #memory #strokerehabilitation #neurophysics #language #music - drinks and food! #leipzigscience
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Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences @mpicbs.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
#Human capacity to develop a diverse and highly complex repertoire of #action plans is truly remarkable 🏌️‍♀️⛹️‍♀️Irina Barnaveli & team @doellerlab.bsky.social explore in their study @natcomms.nature.com how the #brain organizes action plans, using #virtualreality: tinyurl.com/55ne858s
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Our brain’s ability to organize action plans
Our brain’s ability to organize action plans
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Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences @mpicbs.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Unnoticed lesions in the #brain slow down thinking 👀 Frauke Beyer and Stephanie Debette @institutducerveau.bsky.social investigated in their study where such lesions occur in the brain, which factors favour this and how they are linked to #stroke and #dementia. www.cbs.mpg.de/2350220/2025...
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Unnoticed lesions in the brain slow down thinking
Unnoticed lesions in the brain slow down thinking
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Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences @mpicbs.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Do you want to work as a #postdoc on #MRI-based in vivo histology with a special focus on risk factors for and disease progression in early-stage #Parkinson’s Disease? 🧠Please send in your application #neuroscience #neurophysics recruitingapp-5218.de.umantis.com/Vacancies/42...?
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Postdoctoral Position in Advanced MRI Analysis Methods | Karriereportal Max-Planck-Institut für Kognitions- und Neurowissenschaften
Postdoctoral Position in Advanced MRI Analysis Methods | Karriereportal Max-Planck-Institut für Kognitions- und Neurowissenschaften
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Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences @mpicbs.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
How #humans perceive materials, that's what Filipp Schmidt & @martinhebart.bsky.social together with other colleagues from @jlugiessen.bsky.social took a look at in their new paper @pnas.org 👗Graininess, blueness, viscosity: Only 36 dimensions are needed to capture #materials: tinyurl.com/2e8kknx6
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Core dimensions of human material perception | PNAS
Visually categorizing and comparing materials is crucial for everyday behavior, but what organizational principles underlie our mental representati...
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Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences @mpicbs.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
How the #MenstrualCycle shapes #heart and #brain health - @jellinap.bsky.social together with Julia Sacher @cogneuroend.bsky.social & Arno Villringer describe how these naturally occurring variations might influence #stress, mood, and long-term #womenshealth: tinyurl.com/35pu6447
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How the menstrual cycle shapes heart and brain health
How the menstrual cycle shapes heart and brain health
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Healthcare in Europe (DE) @health-europe-de.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Eine Studie von 🇩🇪 @unileipzig.bsky.social, 🇩🇪 @mpicbs.bsky.social, 🇩🇪 Universitätsklinik Leipzig und 🇬🇧 @uniofcam.bsky.social zeigt, wie sich das #Gehirn nach einem #Schlaganfall reorganisiert, um das Sprachvermögen wieder zu verbessern. Davon könnten auch künftige Therapien profitieren.
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Nach Schlaganfall: Wie holt sich das Gehirn die Sprache zurück?
Neue Erkenntnisse zur Wiederherstellung des Sprachvermögens sollen helfen, die Funktionsweise von funktionellen Netzwerken im Gehirn besser zu verstehen und die personalisierte Therapie nach einem Schlaganfall zu verbessern.
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Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences @mpicbs.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
New opinion paper by @ckerren.bsky.social with @benjamingriffiths.bsky.social & Daniel Reznik & Christian Doeller: "Exploring the role of dimensionality transformation in episodic memory" in Trends in Cognitive Sciences 🥳 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Exploring the role of dimensionality transformation in episodic memory
Episodic memory must accomplish two adversarial goals: encoding and storing a multitude of experiences without exceeding the finite neuronal structure…
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Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences @mpicbs.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
We are currently looking for an IT manager 👩‍💻🧑‍💻 You are a professional in #technical leadership, coordination of central #IT and #database teams? Then please apply until 16th February #computerscience #SoftwareEngineering : www.cbs.mpg.de/vacancies/op...
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Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences @mpicbs.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
The human 🧠 has two halves that make our behaviors and thoughts more efficient. How the asymmetry of the brain halves contributes to human cognition, examined @wanb.bsky.social & @sofievalk.bsky.social in their study in Nature Communications: www.cbs.mpg.de/2316389/2024...
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How asymmetry of brain halves contributes to human cognition
How asymmetry of brain halves contributes to human cognition
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Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences @mpicbs.bsky.social · 05/03/2024
Nominations and self-nominations sought for the position of Director at MPI CBS! The future Director’s research programme should focus on understanding the neural bases of human cognitive functions, using modern #neuroimaging methods. #science #maxplanck Please share: tinyurl.com/mu43uds6
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Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences @mpicbs.bsky.social · 12/02/2024
Coffee or Tea ☕🫖? And which stock to invest in? 📈 How our brain evaluates options for decision making: In their new paper in Nature Communications Alexander Nitsch and Christian Doeller investigated how the brain manages to make good predictions in such situations. www.cbs.mpg.de/2214425/2024...
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Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences @mpicbs.bsky.social · 22/12/2023
Enjoy the holiday season 💫 Wishing you all a happy new scientific year ahead! Seasons Greetings to all our partners, friends and Max Planck family ✨
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