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Inhibition within a premotor circuit controls the timing of...
Vocal turn-taking is a fundamental organizing principle of human conversation but the neural circuit mechanisms that...
How a Bird Brain Times Tweets
Inhibitory neurons in the zebra finch brain control coordinated vocal interactions Zebra finches can take turns when...
Tuning in on cortical circuit dynamics
Neurons use homeostatic mechanisms to maintain stability despite experience-dependent network alterations. Neural...
Neural networks in the spotlight
Scientists develop a computational model to predict and interpret the outcome of optogenetic experiments. Optogenetic...
Neurotelemetry Reveals Putative Predictive Activity in HVC...
Premotor predictions facilitate vocal interactions. Here, we study such mechanisms in the forebrain nucleus HVC (proper...
Tatjana Tchumatchenko has been awarded an ERC Starting Grant
Tatjana Tchumatchenko, Research Group Leader at the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, has received this prestigious...
On a quest for a magnetic compass
caesar researcher Pascal Malkemper awarded with an ERC Starting Grant He is on a fascinating quest to understand a...
Different from a computer: Why the brain never processes the...
The brain never processes the same information in the same way. Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive...
Using personal frequency to control brain activity
Individual frequency can be used to specifically influence certain areas of the brain and thus the abilities processed in...