It’s very important in sports, and in interpersonal relationships, too – perfect timing. But how does our brain learn to estimate when events might occur and react accordingly? Scientists at MPI CBS in Leipzig together with colleagues from the Kavli Institute at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim were able to demonstrate in an MRI study that our brain learns best in connection with constructive feedback.
On Thursday 10th November 2022, 3.30 pm CET, Professor Timothy Behrens (University of Oxford, UK) will give a talk entitled “A re-programmable finite state machine in the mouse medial prefrontal cortex”.
On Thursday, 3rd November 2022, 3.30 pm CEST, Prof Daniela Schiller (Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, USA) will give a talk entitled “Navigating social space“.
On Monday, 29th August 2022, 3.30 pm CEST, Prof Charan Ranganath (University of California at Davis, USA) will give a talk entitled “Complementary learning systems in memory and navigation”.
A postdoc position in cognitive computational neuroscience is available at the Department of Psychology (Director: Christian Doeller) at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig, Germany.
We are seeking highly talented candidates to contribute to our long-term goal to identify the fundamental neural coding principles underlying human thinking and behaviour. The successful candidate should have a strong background in computational neuroscience and should have experience in either developing or applying (or both) computational models in cognitive neuroscience (models applicable to human behavioural or neural data or both). Areas of expertise can for instance include reinforcement learning and cognitive maps, successor representations of state spaces, computational models of spatial navigation, computational approaches to assess neural geometry, or deep neural networks applied to cognitive neuroscience.
Do you remember the last time your mother called? Something like that, probably – it is often difficult for us to say the exact time when an event happened in the past. Jacob Bellmund and Christian Doeller from the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences (MPI CBS) wanted to find out exactly how our brains estimate such times. They have now published their results in the journal Nature Communications, showing that psychologically constructed time shapes our memories.
On Thursday 30th June 2022, 3.30 pm CET, Dr Helen Barron (University of Oxford, UK) will give a talk entitled “Building and distorting cognitive maps in humans and mice”.
Our postdoc Jacob Bellmund was selected as a Klaus Tschira Boost Fellow.The fellowship was awarded by the Klaus Tschira Foundation and the German Scholars Organization. The aim of the Klaus Tschira Boost Fund is to make the career paths of young scientists more flexible, accelerate them and promote early independence by providing flexible funding, support in establishing collaborations and networks, and targeted support and advice. With the support of the Klaus Tschira Boost Fund, Jacob will work on a new research project in collaboration with our lab at the MPI CBS and Dr. Nicolas Schuck from the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin.
You can find more information here (https://gsonet.org/foerderprogramme/klaus-tschira-boost-fund/).
On Thursday 19th May 2022, 6 pm CET, Professor Brice Kuhl (University of Oregon, USA) will give a talk entitled “Adaptive distortions of long-term memory representations”.
On Thursday 7th April 2022, 11 am CET, Professor Daniel Haun (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology) will give a talk entitled “Comparative Cultural Psychology – evolving a research program”.
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