Rachel Zsido and Julia Sacher found that oestradiol plays a crucial role in keeping the structure of networks in the female brain structurally intact and the memory healthy, especially in mid-life. [more]

Roland Benoit and Philipp Paulus together with Daniel Schacter from Harvard University have examined the question, how neutral places suddenly become valuable to us, in a study published in the journal Nature Communications. They show that our attitudes can be influenced not only by what we actually experience but also by what we imagine. [more]

 For people in their 20s and 30s, having blood pressure above normal but below the level considered to be high blood pressure, may be linked to loss of brain [more]

At a mere five months of age, babies seemingly have the ability to recognize very complex grammatical structures. [more]

Infants’ attention to fearful faces predicts later altruism [more]

... Sofie Valk and Emiliano Zaccarella [more]

The equivalent of Broca’s area plays a similar role but for the processing of music instead of language. [more]

The brain activity of jazz pianists differs from those of classical pianists, even when playing the same piece of music. [more]

Our personal assistant for voice recognition uses a convolution in the right temporal lobe. [more]

Meditation entails a variety of mental training techniques which, in principal, can be trained by anyone. [more]

With the help of brain activity and gene analyses, it could be predicted in time whether a child could be affected by dyslexia. [more]

Three days of discussions, freethinking and broadening horizons [more]

That is what international experts from various scientific disciplines – whether linguists, philosophists, anthropologists or neurobiologists – are eager to discuss at the 2016 Summer School [more]

How well we can listen to the speech of another person in noisy surroundings depends on our ability to adapt our alpha brain waves to the rhythm of their language. [more]

Which is more important when we plan an action: the overarching goal or the approach along the way? [more]

This year's round of applications for candidates to the NeuroCom graduate school will run until the beginning of January 2016. [more]

The summer school will offer you the opportunity to participate in lectures given by international leading scientists and to present and discuss your projects in a poster session and at several social get-togethers. [more]

The Max Planck Institut for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences hosts the workshop "Methods and Concepts for fMRI of the Human Brain" from 13 to 15 April 2015. [more]