Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences
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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.
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
The brains of blind people reorganize differently than previously thought
The brains of blind people reorganize differently than previously thought
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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.”
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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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
How “Highways” in the Brain Help Young Children Form Plurals
How “Highways” in the Brain Help Young Children Form Plurals
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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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Mehr zu unserem #Leibniz Preisträger Christian Doeller @doellerlab.bsky.social hier zum Reinhören 😀💫🏅: www.mdr.de/wissen/leibn...
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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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!
🎉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...
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
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft@dfg.de · 5mo ago#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
#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
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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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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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 ↓ https://bit.ly/3Y8WyGQ
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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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
Christian Doeller erhält Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz-Preis 2026
Christian Doeller erhält Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz-Preis 2026
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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
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
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft@dfg.de · 8mo agoUnd hier sind sie – die 10 Preisträger*innen des Gottfried Wilhelm #LeibnizPreis' 2026 – ausgezeichnet für ihre exzellenten Forschungsarbeiten und Errungenschaften in der Wissenschaft! 🏆👏 Die Verleihung der Preise feiern wir am 18. März in Berlin. Einzelheiten & Kurzprofile: sohub.io/1uv1
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
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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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
Lars Meyer receives ERC Consolidator Grant from the EU
Lars Meyer receives ERC Consolidator Grant from the EU
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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
When AI “thinks” like us
New research forms a bridge between human and machine representation
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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
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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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
Focusing on one voice requires both listening and ignoring
Focusing on one voice requires both listening and ignoring
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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...
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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🔎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
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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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...
New approach to preventing social isolation
New approach to preventing social isolation
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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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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
European Research Council (ERC)@erc.europa.eu · 11mo ago📣 The ERC Starting Grant call results are out! Find out which early-career researchers will receive funding this year, what they will be investigating, where they will be based... plus lots of other #ERCStG facts & figures for 2025! ➡️ buff.ly/IsafuFh #FrontierResearch 🇪🇺#EUfunded #HorizonEurope
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...
Sofie Valk and Daniel Reznik receive ERC Starting Grants
Sofie Valk and Daniel Reznik receive ERC Starting Grants
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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
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...
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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