Max Planck School of Cognition
@mps-cognition.bsky.social
An international graduate program in Germany with a unique network of researchers in the field of #cognition.
We offer excellent teaching, research opportunities and full funding. Learn more here:
cognition.maxplanckschools.org
We offer excellent teaching, research opportunities and full funding. Learn more here:
cognition.maxplanckschools.org
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The new application cycle for our fully funded international graduate program has just started. You can now apply via our website, sign up for a Q&A, or participate in the Applicant Support Program cognition.maxplanckschools.org/en ! 👍🏻🧠👏🏾#passionforscience, #maxplanckschools
Congratulations to our own Max Hinrichs who presented his poster at SfN in San Diego! Great to see such success after all the hard work. 🧠🎊🧠🎊
November 17, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Congratulations to our own Max Hinrichs who presented his poster at SfN in San Diego! Great to see such success after all the hard work. 🧠🎊🧠🎊
Are you at the SfN in San Diego? And if you are considering a PhD in Germany next year, come and find out more! cognition.maxplanckschools.org/en/applicati...
November 16, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Are you at the SfN in San Diego? And if you are considering a PhD in Germany next year, come and find out more! cognition.maxplanckschools.org/en/applicati...
There is still time to apply to our excellent and fully funded PhD program. Deadline is December 1st! Have a look here for more details: cognition.maxplanckschools.org/en/applicati... 🧠☘️🧠
November 13, 2025 at 9:06 AM
There is still time to apply to our excellent and fully funded PhD program. Deadline is December 1st! Have a look here for more details: cognition.maxplanckschools.org/en/applicati... 🧠☘️🧠
The Graduate Academy Leipzig is supporting doctoral researchers with information, advice, and workshops today, on Doctoral Researchers‘ Day. They will be putting the spotlight on the (future) doctoral researchers at their university. Check it out here: www.uni-leipzig.de/en/event-det...
November 12, 2025 at 6:10 AM
The Graduate Academy Leipzig is supporting doctoral researchers with information, advice, and workshops today, on Doctoral Researchers‘ Day. They will be putting the spotlight on the (future) doctoral researchers at their university. Check it out here: www.uni-leipzig.de/en/event-det...
Our Next virtual Q&As take place on Wednesday! Any questions about our program can be answered. Register via our webpage here: cognition.maxplanckschools.org/en/applicati... #passionforscience #maxplanckschools 🧠🎊🧠
November 3, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Our Next virtual Q&As take place on Wednesday! Any questions about our program can be answered. Register via our webpage here: cognition.maxplanckschools.org/en/applicati... #passionforscience #maxplanckschools 🧠🎊🧠
If you are currently applying to our program and have any questions, sign up for one of our Q&A sessions this Wednesday: cognition.maxplanckschools.org/en/applicati...
October 20, 2025 at 3:46 PM
If you are currently applying to our program and have any questions, sign up for one of our Q&A sessions this Wednesday: cognition.maxplanckschools.org/en/applicati...
We are proud of our very own Yuliya Kovalchuk who gave a fantastic presentation at this year’s MP Schools’ Day! 🧠🥂👍🏻#maxplanckschools @passionforscience
October 9, 2025 at 3:44 PM
We are proud of our very own Yuliya Kovalchuk who gave a fantastic presentation at this year’s MP Schools’ Day! 🧠🥂👍🏻#maxplanckschools @passionforscience
The annual Max Planck Schools’ Day is taking place at Harnack Haus in Berlin today! Welcome new cohorts and future game changers in your respective fields! 🎊🥂☘️👍🏻 #maxplanckschools #passionforscience
October 9, 2025 at 12:24 PM
The annual Max Planck Schools’ Day is taking place at Harnack Haus in Berlin today! Welcome new cohorts and future game changers in your respective fields! 🎊🥂☘️👍🏻 #maxplanckschools #passionforscience
Congrats to our own @corvo1795.bsky.social, who is presenting his latest research with a poster BernsteinNeuro conference at Goethe University in Frankfurt! 🧠🧠🧠
September 30, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Congrats to our own @corvo1795.bsky.social, who is presenting his latest research with a poster BernsteinNeuro conference at Goethe University in Frankfurt! 🧠🧠🧠
The annual Bernstein Conference is taking place in Frankfurt this week. If you attend then come and say hi! Here to talk about our fully funded PhD program! #passionforscience #maxplanckschools 👍🏻🧠👏🏾
September 30, 2025 at 11:29 AM
The annual Bernstein Conference is taking place in Frankfurt this week. If you attend then come and say hi! Here to talk about our fully funded PhD program! #passionforscience #maxplanckschools 👍🏻🧠👏🏾
Get to know New fellow @andreaeyleen.bsky.social from the MPI for Psycholinguistics. In a recent paper (Weissbart & Martin, 2024, Nature Communications), she shows that the brain doesn’t just rely on word statistics or grammatical rules, but it uses both. Very excited to have her in our program! 🧠🧠🧠
September 29, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Get to know New fellow @andreaeyleen.bsky.social from the MPI for Psycholinguistics. In a recent paper (Weissbart & Martin, 2024, Nature Communications), she shows that the brain doesn’t just rely on word statistics or grammatical rules, but it uses both. Very excited to have her in our program! 🧠🧠🧠
Interested in the link between cardiovascular and mental health or, in other “words” the ❤️ and 🧠 through brain-body states? A new paper by our speaker and fellow Arno Villringer with @michaelgaebler.com and Vadim Nikulin sheds more light on these interactions: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Brain–body states as a link between cardiovascular and mental health
Numerous studies in humans have demonstrated a strong link between heart and brain function at different timescales. We conceptualize this functional …
www.sciencedirect.com
September 25, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Interested in the link between cardiovascular and mental health or, in other “words” the ❤️ and 🧠 through brain-body states? A new paper by our speaker and fellow Arno Villringer with @michaelgaebler.com and Vadim Nikulin sheds more light on these interactions: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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📢Our peer-reviewed article about the AffectTracker is finally out! 😲🕹️📈
Traditional methods for rating emotion often miss the dynamic, moment-to-moment nature of feelings. We designed a tool to capture this continuous affective experience in real-time during dynamic emotional stimulation.
Traditional methods for rating emotion often miss the dynamic, moment-to-moment nature of feelings. We designed a tool to capture this continuous affective experience in real-time during dynamic emotional stimulation.
Frontiers | AffectTracker: real-time continuous rating of affective experience in immersive virtual reality
Subjective experience is key to understanding affective states, characterized by valence and arousal. Traditional experiments using post-stimulus summary rat...
doi.org
September 23, 2025 at 10:20 AM
📢Our peer-reviewed article about the AffectTracker is finally out! 😲🕹️📈
Traditional methods for rating emotion often miss the dynamic, moment-to-moment nature of feelings. We designed a tool to capture this continuous affective experience in real-time during dynamic emotional stimulation.
Traditional methods for rating emotion often miss the dynamic, moment-to-moment nature of feelings. We designed a tool to capture this continuous affective experience in real-time during dynamic emotional stimulation.
Need help with your application? Or wondering about if our program is right for you? Come and join one of our next virtual Q&A sessions on Sept 23rd! Sign up here: cognition.maxplanckschools.org/en/applicati...
Q&A Sessions
cognition.maxplanckschools.org
September 19, 2025 at 8:10 AM
Need help with your application? Or wondering about if our program is right for you? Come and join one of our next virtual Q&A sessions on Sept 23rd! Sign up here: cognition.maxplanckschools.org/en/applicati...
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Would you let AI cheat for you?
Our new paper in @nature.com, 5 years in the making, is out today.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Our new paper in @nature.com, 5 years in the making, is out today.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
September 17, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Would you let AI cheat for you?
Our new paper in @nature.com, 5 years in the making, is out today.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Our new paper in @nature.com, 5 years in the making, is out today.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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How do we update our predictions when our environment changes?
The hippocampus rapidly integrates previously distinct sequences to support updated predictions.
Proud of this work with Hannah Tarder-Stoll & @chrisbaldassano.bsky.social!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
The hippocampus rapidly integrates previously distinct sequences to support updated predictions.
Proud of this work with Hannah Tarder-Stoll & @chrisbaldassano.bsky.social!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
The Hippocampus Rapidly Integrates Sequence Representations During Novel Multistep Predictions
Memories for temporally extended sequences can be used adaptively to predict future events on multiple timescales, a function that relies on the hippocampus. For such predictions to be useful, they sh...
www.biorxiv.org
September 16, 2025 at 1:41 PM
How do we update our predictions when our environment changes?
The hippocampus rapidly integrates previously distinct sequences to support updated predictions.
Proud of this work with Hannah Tarder-Stoll & @chrisbaldassano.bsky.social!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
The hippocampus rapidly integrates previously distinct sequences to support updated predictions.
Proud of this work with Hannah Tarder-Stoll & @chrisbaldassano.bsky.social!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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💡Our director Elisabeth Binder will speak about science, #history and #morality at the ECNP Congress in October. Read her interview below to get an insight into the difficult history of #psychiatry and of our Institute.
💡Science, history, and morality — explore more in our interview with Elisabeth Binder, Germany.
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🧠 At the #ECNP2025 Congress, she will speak on the importance of #psychiatry and #science generally being grounded in a sense of what is right.
@mpi-psychiatry.bsky.social #science
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🧠 At the #ECNP2025 Congress, she will speak on the importance of #psychiatry and #science generally being grounded in a sense of what is right.
@mpi-psychiatry.bsky.social #science
September 12, 2025 at 7:57 AM
💡Our director Elisabeth Binder will speak about science, #history and #morality at the ECNP Congress in October. Read her interview below to get an insight into the difficult history of #psychiatry and of our Institute.
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🚀 Young Scientist Retreat 2025 – Hamburg 🌍
📅 October 21–24, 2025
👉 Register here: tinyurl.com/ycmyshra (Google Form)
If this does not work, feel free to write sarah.danboeck@uni-mannheim.de
Let’s connect, learn & grow together in Hamburg! 🌟
ysr2025 #Biopsychology #YoungScientists
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📅 October 21–24, 2025
👉 Register here: tinyurl.com/ycmyshra (Google Form)
If this does not work, feel free to write sarah.danboeck@uni-mannheim.de
Let’s connect, learn & grow together in Hamburg! 🌟
ysr2025 #Biopsychology #YoungScientists
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September 12, 2025 at 8:33 AM
🚀 Young Scientist Retreat 2025 – Hamburg 🌍
📅 October 21–24, 2025
👉 Register here: tinyurl.com/ycmyshra (Google Form)
If this does not work, feel free to write sarah.danboeck@uni-mannheim.de
Let’s connect, learn & grow together in Hamburg! 🌟
ysr2025 #Biopsychology #YoungScientists
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📅 October 21–24, 2025
👉 Register here: tinyurl.com/ycmyshra (Google Form)
If this does not work, feel free to write sarah.danboeck@uni-mannheim.de
Let’s connect, learn & grow together in Hamburg! 🌟
ysr2025 #Biopsychology #YoungScientists
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First virtual Q&A sessions will take place tomorrow! There is still time to register via our website: cognition.maxplanckschools.org/en/applicati...
September 9, 2025 at 8:08 AM
First virtual Q&A sessions will take place tomorrow! There is still time to register via our website: cognition.maxplanckschools.org/en/applicati...
First virtual Q&A sessions will take place tomorrow! There is still time to register via our website: cognition.maxplanckschools.org/en/applicati...
September 9, 2025 at 8:08 AM
First virtual Q&A sessions will take place tomorrow! There is still time to register via our website: cognition.maxplanckschools.org/en/applicati...
Our first virtual Q&A sessions will take place next week on Wednesday (Sept 10th) Sign up here if you would like to learn more: cognition.maxplanckschools.org/en/application… 🧠🧠🧠
September 5, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Our first virtual Q&A sessions will take place next week on Wednesday (Sept 10th) Sign up here if you would like to learn more: cognition.maxplanckschools.org/en/application… 🧠🧠🧠
Great presentation by our new fellow Dr. Sofie Valk about her research on the final (rainy 🥲) Welcome Day in Berlin! Have a fantastic start into the program cohort 2025! #passionforscience #maxplanckschools 💪🏻🧠🍀
September 5, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Great presentation by our new fellow Dr. Sofie Valk about her research on the final (rainy 🥲) Welcome Day in Berlin! Have a fantastic start into the program cohort 2025! #passionforscience #maxplanckschools 💪🏻🧠🍀
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Yesterday marked the start of my PhD journey with @mps-cognition.bsky.social. We are in Berlin for welcome week, presenting our research interests to each other and attending talks by @mps-cognition.bsky.social fellows. Loved learning about connectomics from @mhlab.bsky.social. Excited for the rest!
Ready for their first group photo! We are excited to have cohort 2025 join our program! If you want to be part of us next year, now is the time to apply: cognition.maxplanckschools.org/en/application #passionforscience #maxplanckschools 🧠🧠🧠
September 3, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Yesterday marked the start of my PhD journey with @mps-cognition.bsky.social. We are in Berlin for welcome week, presenting our research interests to each other and attending talks by @mps-cognition.bsky.social fellows. Loved learning about connectomics from @mhlab.bsky.social. Excited for the rest!
The new application cycle for our fully funded international graduate program has just started. You can now apply via our website, sign up for a Q&A, or participate in the Applicant Support Program cognition.maxplanckschools.org/en ! 👍🏻🧠👏🏾#passionforscience, #maxplanckschools
September 4, 2025 at 11:21 AM
The new application cycle for our fully funded international graduate program has just started. You can now apply via our website, sign up for a Q&A, or participate in the Applicant Support Program cognition.maxplanckschools.org/en ! 👍🏻🧠👏🏾#passionforscience, #maxplanckschools
Ready for their first group photo! We are excited to have cohort 2025 join our program! If you want to be part of us next year, now is the time to apply: cognition.maxplanckschools.org/en/application #passionforscience #maxplanckschools 🧠🧠🧠
September 3, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Ready for their first group photo! We are excited to have cohort 2025 join our program! If you want to be part of us next year, now is the time to apply: cognition.maxplanckschools.org/en/application #passionforscience #maxplanckschools 🧠🧠🧠