caesar researcher Pascal Malkemper awarded with an ERC Starting Grant He is on a fascinating quest to understand a...
Sensory Systems
Neuroaesthetics
Neuroaesthetics uses the tools of psychology and neuroscience to understand the nature of aesthetic experiences, such as...
Acoustic-driven oscillators as cortical pacemaker”: a...
This is a commentary on a review article by Meyer, Sun & Martin (2019), “Synchronous, but not entrained: exogenous...
Directed protein evolution with CRISPR-Cas9
New area of application for gene scissors: Optimized proteins for biomedical research “Directed evolution” is...
Early visual experience drives precise alignment of cortical...
Researchers at the Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience identify three distinct cortical representations that...
Hidden away: An enigmatic mammalian brain area revealed in...
Scientists find, in reptiles, a brain area previously suspected to play a role in mammalian higher cognitive processes...
Motion patterns instead of pixels
Higher brain areas receive a functional rather than realistic view of the environment Every moment, our eyes receive...
Impact of visual callosal pathway is dependent upon ipsilateral...
The visual callosal pathway, which reciprocally connects the primary visual cortices, is thought to play a pivotal role in...
Constrained Structure of Ancient Chinese Poetry Facilitates...
Ancient Chinese poetry is constituted by structured language that deviates from ordinary language usage [1, 2]; its poetic...
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...