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”.
On Thursday 10th March 2022, 3.30 pm CET, Professor Morgan Barense (University of Toronto, Canada) will give a talk entitled “Enhancing real-world event memory: Insights from the HippoCamera, a smartphone intervention”.
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On Thursday 16th December, 6 pm CET, Professor Lisa Giocomo (Stanford University, CA, USA) will give a talk entitled “Multiple maps for navigation”.
On Thursday 25th November, 3.30 pm CET, Professor Brigitte Roeder (University of Hamburg, Germany) will give a talk entitled “The role of experience for the development of visual and multisensory functions“.
New paper on using AI to decode eye movements from brain scans without an eye tracker is out in Nature Neuroscience:
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