Our colleagues @ @violapriesemann.bsky.social's lab organize the Göttingen Emergent Minds Winter School #GoEMMI 📆Feb 15-Mar 6, 2027 💰Free participation Key topics Theory of emergence & computation Learning in brains & machines Computation from local interactions register @ goemmi-goettingen.de

Congratulations to @marcellawoud.bsky.social for this wonderful honor acknowleding her PhD supervisory work! 🎆

Marcella Woud@marcellawoud.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Very honored and moved to have received this year’s PhD supervisor prize at @dpk-kongress.bsky.social

happy to announce a new paper by @richardvogg.bsky.social and MANY colleagues from our SFB (@uni-goettingen.de & @primatenzentrum.bsky.social): They present PriMAT, our robust AI model to track different primate species in their natural habitates in the wild: journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

PriMAT: Robust multi-animal tracking of primates in the wild

Detection and tracking of animals is an important first step for automated behavioral studies using videos. Animal tracking is currently done mostly using deep learning frameworks based on keypoints, ...

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We invite to a double-feature event today with Nicole rust (@nicolecrust.bsky.social) in our SFB lecture series Lecture at 2 PM, Lecture Hall, German Primate Center @primatenzentrum.bsky.social From Subjective Feelings to Brain Mechanisms: Advancing the Science of Mood through Epistemic Iteration

🐼Lemurs! 🖊️Social learning! 🫂Tolerance! 🌐Diffusion analysis! Our #EditorsChoice for the #AnimalBehaviourJournal: “Social tolerance mediates social learning in wild red-fronted lemurs, Eulemur rufifrons, and ring-tailed lemurs, Lemur catta” Read here: doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2026.123517

New study by Sofia Pereira, Julia Ostner, Oliver Schülke & colleagues (@primbehavecol.bsky.social): Wild Assamese macaques pay selective attention to social interactions in their groups. The team spent 10 months in Thailand’s Phu Khieo Wildlife Sanctuary, analyzing ~1,000 spontaneous social scenes.

Meet us on Sunday at #ScienceGoesCity Meet @nivimani.bsky.social and the "Wortschatzinsel" and Hannes Rakoczy and the "Göttinger Kindsköpfe" at the Johanniskirchhof to talk about child development At the #Gänseliesl, meet Susanne Bögeholz and Sebastian Löser to explore our Virtual Tour. See you!

Uni Göttingen@uni-goettingen.de · 4mo ago

Science goes City: Statt in Laboren und Bibliotheken tummeln sich Forschende am Sonntag, 19.4, in der Göttinger Innenstadt und lassen tief in die Wissenschaft blicken. Unter mehr als 60 Aktionen ist für alle etwas dabei: www.campuspost.goettingen-campus.de/2026/04/08/f... #Göttingen #Goettingen

Paper Alert from our science communication project: Sebastian Löser, Susanne Bögeholz et al conducted a systematic review and identified multiple barriers when it comes to science communication about animal experimentation research Read the story at: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

We have multiple job alerts by SFB members to share: Marcella Woud (@marcellawoud.bsky.social) at @uni-goettingen.de is looking for a PhD student to study face perception in social anxiety: www.uni-goettingen.de/de/644546.ht...

yet another paper from out network from the lab of @nivimani.bsky.social at the @uni-goettingen.de. Don't miss it ⬇️

New @sfb1528.bsky.social and @rtg2906-curiosity.bsky.social publication. We show that mothers are worthy of the pedagogical assumption: they preferentially sample information that fills their child's knowledge gaps and children learn best from maternal sampling: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Wir freuen uns, morgen wieder in der #ChalkTalk Serie des @forumwissen.bsky.social dabei zu sein. Verpasst nicht wenn Lars Penke (@larspenke.bsky.social) von der @uni-goettingen.de über "Hormone und Sexualität" spricht. Freitag, 13.2.2026 um 16.30 Uhr. www.forum-wissen.de/event/chalk-...

2 new papers: Madhavan et al study the dynamics of episodes of joint attention in caregiver-infant interactions. We find that infants initiate more episodes of joint attention and more often to familiar objects. Mothers follow infants' attention to label familiar objects more doi.org/10.1098/rsos...

Egocentricity in infants’ play with familiar objects in caregiver–child interactions

Abstract. The current study explored the dynamics of parent–child coordinated attention to novel and familiar objects during a play session, to examine whe

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Are you a Postdoc in Göttingen? Coming up: tours of the #ForumWissen, Research Images exhibition, #PostdocSocials and more. Join the #GCPostdocNetwork: goettingen-campus.de/postdoc Save the date, Göttingen Postdoc Fair: 19 March: goettingen-campus.de/postdoc-event #CareerPaths #AdviceAndSupport

Join us at the Primate Cognitive Neuroscience Summer School in picturesque Bad Bevensen for two weeks of intense exchange about Systems Neuroscience! When: 26 July - 7 August Where: Bad Bevensen, Germany Application deadline: 28 February More details here: www.dpz.eu/pcn2026

📹New video🎞️: Claudia Fichtel (@kirindy.bsky.social; @primatenzentrum.bsky.social) takes you into the heart of the Kirindy Forest field station in Madagascar; learn what life in remote field station looks like. in collaboration with @primatecognition.bsky.social Watch here: youtu.be/pWygl1DlmLE

Kirindy Forest. 30 years of research on the lemurs of Madagascar

YouTube video by Göttingen Cognition & Behavior Research

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Fresh out another SFB paper, today by @tarananigam.bsky.social, Andrea Campos-Perez, Caspar Schwiedrzik and colleagues 👇

Tarana Nigam@tarananigam.bsky.social · 8mo ago

🎉 Excited to share one of my projects that I worked on with Caspar Schwiedrzik! Check out my latest preprint: Multiple task-demands flexibly optimize neural geometry in human ventral temporal cortex biorxiv.org/content/10.6... (0/10)

Paper alert: Kind of a serious fun paper 😂 - how to hold back laughter. Published by @anne-schacht.bsky.social, Vanessa Mitschke, Annika Ziereis and Sriranjani Manivasagam (@uni-goettingen.de; @primatecognition.bsky.social) . Paper is out in Comm Psychol: doi.org/10.1038/s442...

Laughter regulation in solitary and social contexts varies across emotion regulation strategies - Communications Psychology

Using facial EMG and humor ratings, this study shows how suppression, reappraisal, and distraction differentially affect laughter-related expressions of amusement in solitary versus social settings.

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Anne Schacht@anne-schacht.bsky.social · 8mo ago

😂😶 Holding back laughter is hard… … and someone else’s tiny pffft-HAHA can instantly crack you up. Our new study (with @sfb1528.bsky.social, @uni-goettingen.de) in Communications Psychology shows how social laughter disrupts regulation. 🔗 doi.org/10.1038/s442...

Multiple job alerts! The @rtg2906-curiosity.bsky.social at the @uni-goettingen.de and @primatenzentrum.bsky.social has 10 openings for PhD students! Join us now in Göttingen.

RTG 2906 Curiosity@rtg2906-curiosity.bsky.social · 8mo ago

📢Applications are open for the second cohort of our RTG! Learn more about the opportunities: www.uni-goettingen.de/de/open+posi... 🔔Join our info meeting on Dec 10, 1 p.m. CET. Register via: survey.academiccloud.de/index.php/34...

New publication from the Fichtel-Kappeler-Lab (@kirindy.bsky.social) is out in Animal Cognition: @elifkarakoc.bsky.social, @richardvogg.bsky.social & colleagues show: competence pays – briefly Red-fronted lemurs could learn to obtain food from food boxes ... link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Foraging competence and its impact on social relationships in a socially tolerant wild primate - Animal Cognition

Social interactions are crucial for individual health and ultimately fitness, making the choice of social partners evolutionarily relevant. Previous research has shown that individuals who succeed in ...

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Do you want to join us? Our colleagues @violapriesemann.bsky.social (MPI Dynamik & Selbstorganisation) & Michael Wibral (@uni-goettingen.de) recruit a postdoc to develop dyadic interaction paradigms suitable for OPM-MEG at our new research building #HuCaB www.mpg.de/25532084/pos...

Postdoctoral Fellow (m/f/d) | MEG and Cognition of Interaction

Postdoctoral Fellow (m/f/d) - MEG and Cognition of Interaction

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🎧Hier zum Wochenende eine Podcast - Empfehlung 🎧 Unsere Vize-Sprecherin @anne-schacht.bsky.social (@primatecognition.bsky.social; @uni-goettingen.de) hat sich mit dem @forumwissen.bsky.social Team über die Rolle von Emotionen unterhalten. Viel Spaß beim Zuhören! 😀

Forum Wissen@forumwissen.bsky.social · 10mo ago

🎧 Neue Folge von #Wissentolisten: Wie Emotionen unser Verhalten steuern Psychologin @anne-schacht.bsky.social von der @uni-goettingen.de erforscht, wie wir Gefühle in Gesichtern, Stimmen & Sprache wahrnehmen – und wie das unser Handeln prägt. ➡️ Jetzt hören: www.forum-wissen.de/podcast-und-...

That was fun! Thanks to everyone who joined us for the First Göttingen Cognition Forum this week. We really appreciated the many talks and posters and the lively atmosphere at the meeting. We feel this was a great start and we hope that the Cognition Forum will continue ...

The countdown is on: our 1st Göttingen Cognition Forum starts Monday, Oct 13! We’re excited about the great response and look forward to inspiring talks on this year’s theme: Curiosity and Interaction. @spp2205.bsky.social @rtg2906-curiosity.bsky.social @uni-goettingen.de events.gwdg.de/event/1099/

The Göttingen Cognition Forum: Curiosity & Interaction

We are pleased to announce the First Göttingen Cognition Forum: Curiosity & Interaction Social and physical interactions with the environment shape cognition in humans and non-human animals alike. Und...

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Ein Fernsehtipp zum Wochenende: Das Bayerische Fernsehen zeigt eine Doku über die Sprache der Tiere. Mit dabei: Julia Fischer (@sfb1528.bsky.social; @primatenzentrum.bsky.social ) und ihre Forschung darüber, wie Affen kommunizieren. 📆27.9.2025, 18:45 BR Fernsehen & Mediathek (s.gwdg.de/TDMmkf)

Job Alert! Come and join our team at our field site CRP Simenti in Senegal. Julia Fischer @julxf.bsky.social (@primatenzentrum.bsky.social) is recruiting a #Research_Manager. Work with the wonderful lovely Guinea baboons and manage our long-term data collection. 👉 www.dpz.eu/karriere/ste...

🎉 Congratulations to Peter Kappeler (@kirindy.bsky.social) on receiving an honorary doctorate from the University of Antananarivo! Honoring an outstanding scientific career, commitment to Madagascar and support for early career researchers. We are proud to have him as part of our SFB family!

Join our SFB 1528 today at 3 PM at the @primatenzentrum.bsky.social in Göttingen: Sanja Bauer Mikulovic (Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology Magdeburg) will speak about Neural Mechanisms Underlying Helping in Mice (for details -> www.uni-goettingen.de/de/686255.html)

Don't miss it! Submit your abstract for our Satellite Symposium on Computational Neuroscience to celebrate 20 years Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience Göttingen! Deadline for your abstracts is August 17! Participation is free! Join us in Göttingen on Oct 15!

SPP 2205@spp2205.bsky.social · 12mo ago

#CompNeuro Satellite Symposium at the Göttingen Cognition Forum (Oct 14-15), deadline for abstract submission extended to Aug 17. Topics: • Neural Interfaces • Cognition, Circuits & Cells • Neural Circuit #Evolution events.gwdg.de/event/1099/

Fresh in eLife: Dyadic Interaction Platform: A novel tool to study transparent social interactions Happy to share this truely collaborative work of 20 SFB members: core experimental platform enables real-time, face-to-face social interaction with precise experimental control doi.org/10.7554/eLif...

🚨 Abstract Deadline approaching! Submit your contribution to the Göttingen Cognition Forum: Curiosity and Interaction by August 1st! 📍 Göttingen, Oct 13–15, 2025 🎟️ Participation is free, but registration required All details & submission portal: events.gwdg.de/e/goettingen... See you in Göttingen!

The Göttingen Cognition Forum: Curiosity & Interaction

We are pleased to announce the First Göttingen Cognition Forum: Curiosity & Interaction Social and physical interactions with the environment shape cognition in humans and non-human animals alike. Und...

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