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.
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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November 13, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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
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
#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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October 30, 2025 at 9:39 AM
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
#parkinsontherapy #clinicalstudy
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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October 27, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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
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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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October 16, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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...
🔎Wir suchen zum nächstmöglichen Zeitpunkt eine engagierte und kompetente Persönlichkeit für die
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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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🔎Wir suchen zum nächstmöglichen Zeitpunkt eine engagierte und kompetente Persönlichkeit für die
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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...
@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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September 22, 2025 at 8:02 AM
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...
@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...
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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 😍
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September 4, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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 😍
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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
📣 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!
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#FrontierResearch 🇪🇺#EUfunded #HorizonEurope
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!
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#FrontierResearch 🇪🇺#EUfunded #HorizonEurope
September 8, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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
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...
@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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September 5, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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...
@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...
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
September 1, 2025 at 9:31 AM
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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August 13, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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...
🧠👩🔬🤖🧏♀️💬 Come around! Tonight from 6pm on we have a mixed program filled with #neuroscience #brainscience #neurology #memory #strokerehabilitation #neurophysics #language #music - drinks and food! #leipzigscience
Excited for the Long Night of Sciences @mpicbs.bsky.social! IMPRS Faculty, students & alumni are sharing their research with the public. Huge thxs to all contributors: @andrejbicanski.bsky.social, @nikweiskopf.bsky.social, Cheslie Klein, Falk Eippert, Felix Buettner, Niklas Kuegler et al.
June 20, 2025 at 10:33 AM
🧠👩🔬🤖🧏♀️💬 Come around! Tonight from 6pm on we have a mixed program filled with #neuroscience #brainscience #neurology #memory #strokerehabilitation #neurophysics #language #music - drinks and food! #leipzigscience
#Human capacity to develop a diverse and highly complex repertoire of #action plans is truly remarkable 🏌️♀️⛹️♀️Irina Barnaveli & team @doellerlab.bsky.social explore in their study
@natcomms.nature.com how the #brain organizes action plans, using #virtualreality: tinyurl.com/55ne858s
@natcomms.nature.com how the #brain organizes action plans, using #virtualreality: tinyurl.com/55ne858s
Our brain’s ability to organize action plans
Our brain’s ability to organize action plans
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May 5, 2025 at 10:12 AM
#Human capacity to develop a diverse and highly complex repertoire of #action plans is truly remarkable 🏌️♀️⛹️♀️Irina Barnaveli & team @doellerlab.bsky.social explore in their study
@natcomms.nature.com how the #brain organizes action plans, using #virtualreality: tinyurl.com/55ne858s
@natcomms.nature.com how the #brain organizes action plans, using #virtualreality: tinyurl.com/55ne858s
Unnoticed lesions in the #brain slow down thinking 👀 Frauke Beyer and Stephanie Debette @institutducerveau.bsky.social investigated in their study where such lesions occur in the brain, which factors favour this and how they are linked to #stroke and #dementia. www.cbs.mpg.de/2350220/2025...
Unnoticed lesions in the brain slow down thinking
Unnoticed lesions in the brain slow down thinking
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April 10, 2025 at 7:46 AM
Unnoticed lesions in the #brain slow down thinking 👀 Frauke Beyer and Stephanie Debette @institutducerveau.bsky.social investigated in their study where such lesions occur in the brain, which factors favour this and how they are linked to #stroke and #dementia. www.cbs.mpg.de/2350220/2025...
Do you want to work as a #postdoc on #MRI-based in vivo histology with a special focus on risk factors for and disease progression in early-stage #Parkinson’s Disease? 🧠Please send in your application #neuroscience #neurophysics recruitingapp-5218.de.umantis.com/Vacancies/42...?
Postdoctoral Position in Advanced MRI Analysis Methods | Karriereportal Max-Planck-Institut für Kognitions- und Neurowissenschaften
Postdoctoral Position in Advanced MRI Analysis Methods | Karriereportal Max-Planck-Institut für Kognitions- und Neurowissenschaften
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April 2, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Do you want to work as a #postdoc on #MRI-based in vivo histology with a special focus on risk factors for and disease progression in early-stage #Parkinson’s Disease? 🧠Please send in your application #neuroscience #neurophysics recruitingapp-5218.de.umantis.com/Vacancies/42...?
How #humans perceive materials, that's what Filipp Schmidt &
@martinhebart.bsky.social together with other colleagues from @jlugiessen.bsky.social took a look at in their new paper
@pnas.org 👗Graininess, blueness, viscosity: Only 36 dimensions are needed to capture #materials: tinyurl.com/2e8kknx6
@martinhebart.bsky.social together with other colleagues from @jlugiessen.bsky.social took a look at in their new paper
@pnas.org 👗Graininess, blueness, viscosity: Only 36 dimensions are needed to capture #materials: tinyurl.com/2e8kknx6
Core dimensions of human material perception | PNAS
Visually categorizing and comparing materials is crucial for everyday behavior, but
what organizational principles underlie our mental representati...
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March 6, 2025 at 11:54 AM
How #humans perceive materials, that's what Filipp Schmidt &
@martinhebart.bsky.social together with other colleagues from @jlugiessen.bsky.social took a look at in their new paper
@pnas.org 👗Graininess, blueness, viscosity: Only 36 dimensions are needed to capture #materials: tinyurl.com/2e8kknx6
@martinhebart.bsky.social together with other colleagues from @jlugiessen.bsky.social took a look at in their new paper
@pnas.org 👗Graininess, blueness, viscosity: Only 36 dimensions are needed to capture #materials: tinyurl.com/2e8kknx6
How the #MenstrualCycle shapes #heart and #brain health -
@jellinap.bsky.social together with Julia Sacher @cogneuroend.bsky.social & Arno Villringer describe how these naturally occurring variations might influence #stress, mood, and long-term #womenshealth: tinyurl.com/35pu6447
@jellinap.bsky.social together with Julia Sacher @cogneuroend.bsky.social & Arno Villringer describe how these naturally occurring variations might influence #stress, mood, and long-term #womenshealth: tinyurl.com/35pu6447
How the menstrual cycle shapes heart and brain health
How the menstrual cycle shapes heart and brain health
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March 6, 2025 at 9:50 AM
How the #MenstrualCycle shapes #heart and #brain health -
@jellinap.bsky.social together with Julia Sacher @cogneuroend.bsky.social & Arno Villringer describe how these naturally occurring variations might influence #stress, mood, and long-term #womenshealth: tinyurl.com/35pu6447
@jellinap.bsky.social together with Julia Sacher @cogneuroend.bsky.social & Arno Villringer describe how these naturally occurring variations might influence #stress, mood, and long-term #womenshealth: tinyurl.com/35pu6447
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Eine Studie von 🇩🇪 @unileipzig.bsky.social, 🇩🇪 @mpicbs.bsky.social, 🇩🇪 Universitätsklinik Leipzig und 🇬🇧 @uniofcam.bsky.social zeigt, wie sich das #Gehirn nach einem #Schlaganfall reorganisiert, um das Sprachvermögen wieder zu verbessern. Davon könnten auch künftige Therapien profitieren.
Nach Schlaganfall: Wie holt sich das Gehirn die Sprache zurück?
Neue Erkenntnisse zur Wiederherstellung des Sprachvermögens sollen helfen, die Funktionsweise von funktionellen Netzwerken im Gehirn besser zu verstehen und die personalisierte Therapie nach einem Schlaganfall zu verbessern.
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February 23, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Eine Studie von 🇩🇪 @unileipzig.bsky.social, 🇩🇪 @mpicbs.bsky.social, 🇩🇪 Universitätsklinik Leipzig und 🇬🇧 @uniofcam.bsky.social zeigt, wie sich das #Gehirn nach einem #Schlaganfall reorganisiert, um das Sprachvermögen wieder zu verbessern. Davon könnten auch künftige Therapien profitieren.
New opinion paper by @ckerren.bsky.social with @benjamingriffiths.bsky.social & Daniel Reznik & Christian Doeller: "Exploring the role of dimensionality transformation in episodic memory" in Trends in Cognitive Sciences 🥳 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
February 14, 2025 at 10:52 AM
New opinion paper by @ckerren.bsky.social with @benjamingriffiths.bsky.social & Daniel Reznik & Christian Doeller: "Exploring the role of dimensionality transformation in episodic memory" in Trends in Cognitive Sciences 🥳 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
We are currently looking for an IT manager 👩💻🧑💻 You are a professional in #technical leadership, coordination of central #IT and #database teams? Then please apply until 16th February #computerscience #SoftwareEngineering : www.cbs.mpg.de/vacancies/op...
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We are currently looking for an IT manager 👩💻🧑💻 You are a professional in #technical leadership, coordination of central #IT and #database teams? Then please apply until 16th February #computerscience #SoftwareEngineering : www.cbs.mpg.de/vacancies/op...
The human 🧠 has two halves that make our behaviors and thoughts more efficient. How the asymmetry of the brain halves contributes to human cognition, examined @wanb.bsky.social & @sofievalk.bsky.social in their study in Nature Communications: www.cbs.mpg.de/2316389/2024...
How asymmetry of brain halves contributes to human cognition
How asymmetry of brain halves contributes to human cognition
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December 3, 2024 at 10:39 AM
The human 🧠 has two halves that make our behaviors and thoughts more efficient. How the asymmetry of the brain halves contributes to human cognition, examined @wanb.bsky.social & @sofievalk.bsky.social in their study in Nature Communications: www.cbs.mpg.de/2316389/2024...
Nominations and self-nominations sought for the position of Director at MPI CBS! The future Director’s research programme should focus on understanding the neural bases of human cognitive functions, using modern #neuroimaging methods. #science #maxplanck Please share: tinyurl.com/mu43uds6
March 5, 2024 at 11:03 AM
Nominations and self-nominations sought for the position of Director at MPI CBS! The future Director’s research programme should focus on understanding the neural bases of human cognitive functions, using modern #neuroimaging methods. #science #maxplanck Please share: tinyurl.com/mu43uds6
Coffee or Tea ☕🫖? And which stock to invest in? 📈 How our brain evaluates options for decision making: In their new paper in Nature Communications Alexander Nitsch and Christian Doeller investigated how the brain manages to make good predictions in such situations. www.cbs.mpg.de/2214425/2024...
February 12, 2024 at 6:50 AM
Coffee or Tea ☕🫖? And which stock to invest in? 📈 How our brain evaluates options for decision making: In their new paper in Nature Communications Alexander Nitsch and Christian Doeller investigated how the brain manages to make good predictions in such situations. www.cbs.mpg.de/2214425/2024...
Enjoy the holiday season 💫 Wishing you all a happy new scientific year ahead! Seasons Greetings to all our partners, friends and Max Planck family ✨
December 22, 2023 at 10:30 AM
Enjoy the holiday season 💫 Wishing you all a happy new scientific year ahead! Seasons Greetings to all our partners, friends and Max Planck family ✨