Research from the Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience has identified a mechanism through which insulin-like...
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A Butterfly Effect
New Research finds that Protein Kinase C delta activity triggered by the plasticity of just a few synapses regulates...
Poetic birdsong, precisely tuned
Nightingales match the pitch of their whistle songs to those of their rivals in real time Nightingales are well known for...
Here Comes the Sun
New Study Shows How Weather Conditions Influence Music Success in the Markets Music is an integral part of our daily...
Patrick Cramer takes over as Max Planck President
At the celebratory meeting of the Max Planck Society in Göttingen on June 22, 2023, Martin Stratmann symbolically handed...
Deep learning models to study sentence comprehension in the...
Recent artificial neural networks that process natural language achieve unprecedented performance in tasks requiring...
Oh, That’s Nice
How We Recognize Irony “Are you being ironic?”—Good question! We don’t always recognize irony right away. An...
Risk factor for psychiatric disorders has different effects...
Risk gene can also have positive effects FKBP51 is considered a risk factor for psychiatric disorders. However, for the...
How the brain slows down when we focus our gaze
Computer simulations explain change of pace in the visual cortex Changing between slow and fast integration of...
When pigeons dream
Birds show remarkably similar sleep patterns to humans and may experience flight in their dreams Dreams have been...