The MS Wissenschaft weighs anchor!
Cast off for the MS Wissenschaft! Since May 14, the floating science center of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research navigates around 30 ports in Germany and Austria between May and September. In the Science Year 2024, the focus is on the theme of freedom. The institute is represented multiple times.
Karim Ben Khelifa – Artist in Residence
The Artist & AI Residency at the Center for Humans and Machines bridges contemporary art and scientific exploration, fostering interdisciplinary connections between the arts and research.
Karim Ben Khelifa, an award-winning Belgian-Tunisian artist and director, will be joining the program from April to August 2024.
“This is us”– Questions for Soňa Mikulová
In our “That's us” format, colleagues answer questions about their work and their motivation.
In this episode, we introduce you to Soňa Mikulová. She is a researcher at the Center for the History of Emotions and focuses on the emotional integration of Sudeten German expellees after 1945.
New publication: „Writing the history of emotions“
Writing the History of Emotions by Ute Frevert shows how emotions like love, trust, honour, pride, shame, empathy and greed have prompted historical change since the eighteenth century and were themselves dependent on social, political and economic developments. Importantly, this book provides a timely exploration of gendered, class-based notions of feeling. This exciting addition to Bloomsbury’s successful Writing History series analyses how emotions matter in and to history, and how they are themselves objects of history.
“This is us” - Questions for Stefan Appelhoff
In our "This is us" format, colleagues answer questions about their work and their motivation.
In this episode, we introduce you to Stefan Appelhoff. He is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Research Group Adaptive Memory and Decision Making. His research focuses on decision-making in humans.
Review of the last 12 months "This is us"
Our institute has over 300 employees. But that is just a number. Who are the people at our institute? What do they do and what drives them?
In our "This is us" format, colleagues answer questions about their work and their motivation.
New MRIs MAGNETOM Terra.X (7 Tesla) and MAGNETOM Cima.X (3 Tesla) - planned for the Campus of Cognition
The Max Planck Institute for Human Development (MPIB) is expanding its research infrastructure in the field of cognitive neuroscience with the purchase of additional magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanners from Siemens Healthineers.
Inter-Brain Synchronization: "My fascination with the topic continues to this day!"
During collaborative music-making, kissing, or playing chess, the brains of those involved connect, and their brain waves synchronize. Biologist Viktor Müller co-discovered the phenomenon of so-called inter-brain synchronization and dedicated almost his entire career to its exploration. In this interview, he shares insights into his research, its most significant findings, and why he would always choose this fascinating research topic again.
Collective intelligence can help reduce medical misdiagnoses
Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, the Institute for Cognitive Sciences and Technologies (ISTC), and the Norwegian University of Science and Technology developed a collective intelligence approach to increase the accuracy of medical diagnoses. Their work was recently presented in the journal PNAS.
We Mourn the Loss of
Gert G. Wagner
Gert G. Wagner, Max Planck Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, died on January 28, 2024, at the age of 71. "We bid farewell to a highly respected scientist, esteemed colleague and amiable person. It was an absolute pleasure to work with Gert, because he was one of the most curious, open-minded and least dogmatic people I know," says Managing Director Ralph Hertwig.
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