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The Department of Psychology is delighted to announce the next online talk of the Mind Meeting Seminar Series. On Thursday 14th September 2023, 3.30 pm CEST, Professor Anna Schapiro (University…

How can the amazing abilities of our memory be explained on the basis of brain anatomy? It is known that different brain functions are anchored in different areas and structures…

The Department of Psychology is delighted to announce the next online talk of the Mind Meeting Seminar Series. On Thursday 15th June 2023, 2.30 pm CEST, Professor Erie D. Boorman…

Deep artificial neural networks (DNNs) trained through backpropagation provide effective models of the mammalian visual system, accurately capturing the hierarchy of neural responses through primary visual cortex to inferior temporal…

The Department of Psychology is delighted to announce the next online talk of the Mind Meeting Seminar Series. On Thursday 25th May 2023, 3.30 pm CEST, Professor Christian Buechel (University…

PLEASE APPLY HERE A science manager position is available at the Department of Psychology (scientific director: Christian Doeller) at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in…

Gaining insight into the relationship between previously separate events allows us to combine these events into coherent episodes. This insight may occur via observation or imagination. Although much of our…

The Department of Psychology is delighted to announce the next online talk of the Mind Meeting Seminar Series. On Thursday 20th April 2023, 3.30 pm CET, Professor Tom Griffiths (Princeton…

How does the brain deal with new situations? How does it make decisions? Mona Garvert and Christian Doeller from MPI CBS, together with Max Planck colleagues from MPI for Human…

Human spatial cognition has been mainly characterized in terms of egocentric (body-centered) and allocentric (world-centered) wayfinding behavior. It was hypothesized that allocentric spatial coding, as a special high-level cognitive ability, develops later and deteriorates…