Few animals provide a readout that is as objective of their perceptual state as camouflaging cephalopods. Their skin...
Sensory Systems
Proactive sensing of periodic and aperiodic auditory patterns
The ability to predict when something will happen facilitates sensory processing and the ensuing computations. Building on...
Raunak Basu – Ito Lab – has received funding from...
The Humboldt Research Fellowship for Postdoctoral Researchers will support Raunak for a period of 24 months as of March...
Stronger shared taste for natural aesthetic domains than for...
Individuals can be aesthetically engaged by a diverse array of visual experiences (paintings, mountain vistas, etc.), yet...
How we decide on where to go
Neuroscientists discover a mechanism for brain-wide communication when selecting a route towards a destination. Route...
Working memory training in congenitally blind individuals...
The functional relevance of crossmodal activation (e.g. auditory activation of occipital brain regions) in congenitally...
Marina Elaine Wosniack (postdoc at the Gjorgjieva Lab) receives...
This two-year grant will support her research project on the neural circuits underlying Drosophila (fruit fly) larvae...
Tracing cerebral cortex evolution, cell by cell
Molecular atlases of turtle and lizard brains shed light on the evolution of our own brain. Our cerebral cortex, a sheet...
Of men and mice
Max Planck Researchers identify rapid neuromodulation of interneurons in human neocortex. The human neocortex mediates...
Max Planck neuroscientist Hiroshi Ito is awarded a prestigious...
Research Group Leader Hiroshi Ito (Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, Frankfurt, Germany) has been awarded a Young...