Science on film series, episode 2 When we learn something new, we acquire knowledge, skills and abilities. In doing so, we...
Motivation and Emotion
Research team receives 1.5 million euros to develop algorithms...
The grant is part of a Volkswagen Foundation funding program that aims at establishing an interdisciplinary network of...
In a tight spot
A newly discovered circuit helps fish to prioritize. Being constantly flooded by a mass of stimuli, it is impossible for...
What social distancing does to a brain
Scientists discover a neuropeptide that reflects the current state of a fish’s social environment. Have you recently...
The Aesthetic Responsiveness Assessment (AReA): A Screening Tool...
People differ in how they respond to artworks. Measuring such individual differences is helpful for explaining response...
Neuroaesthetics
Neuroaesthetics uses the tools of psychology and neuroscience to understand the nature of aesthetic experiences, such as...
The facial expressions of mice
The face of a mouse reveals its emotions. Researchers at the Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology are the first to...
Listening to birdsong reveals basic features of rate perception...
The timing of acoustic events is central to human speech and music. Tempo tends to be slower in aesthetic contexts: rates...
Decision-making process becomes visible in the brain
Transparent fish larvae reveal how a decision makes its way through the brain Without hardly noticing, we make countless...
The neocortex is critical for learning and memory is more...
New study finds that the auditory cortex is indispensable for threat memory, in particular for naturalistic stimuli. A...