Basic researchers call for urban design based on scientific facts An interdisciplinary group of researchers uses basic...
Sensory Systems
What and Where: Location-Dependent Feature Sensitivity as a...
Traditionally, functional representations in early visual areas are conceived as retinotopic maps preserving ego-centric...
Asymmetry as a building block of neuronal computations
Structure and function of neurons are closely linked in the cerebral cortex. One of the most exciting questions in...
Coherence turned upside down
When Marius Schneider starts his PhD at the Ernst Strüngmann Institute for Neuroscience, he would not dare to dream that...
Understanding Binocular Vision: How MPFI Researchers are Working...
Everything we see, from a work of art to the laugh lines on a loved one’s face, are seen not only with our eyes but...
Two new research groups at the Max Planck Institute for Brain...
Alison Barker and Vanessa Stempel joined the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research as new research group leaders in...
Dendritic constancy – equality in the brain
Equal rights in the brain? A new ESI paper shows that the call for equal rights also affects one of the smallest...
How the brain tricks itself into perceiving unambiguous depth
Stereogram experiments confirm that higher visual areas use feedback to censor conflicting visual cues. Li Zhaoping of the...
Brain rhythms define distinct networks
The brain is much more than the sum of its parts, and these parts interact via complex networks. Researchers at the Ernst...
Learning to see better
The flash of an image on the retina sends millions of neurons to work. ESI scientists show that their responses become...