Welcome to SFB 1528 - Cognition of Interaction
How AI Helps Decode Primate Behavior
The work of our colleagues from the Leibniz ScienceCampus Primate Cognition laid the groundwork for several of the projects that we pursue in the SFB. The ScienceCampus funded important proof-of-concept studies, which were later expanded to SFB projects with a larger scope. The ScienceCampus funding came to an end in March 2025, but our colleagues wanted to take a look back at what had been achieved in the last years. The video team of SUB of the University of Göttingen followed our researchers and shot four YouTube videos outlining our approaches and goals. The first video was now released focussing on the question how artificial intelligence and machine learning can be used to quantify primate behavior faster, more efficiently and in more detail. In the video, SFB members Julia Ostner, Richard Vogg and Stefan Treue explain how they joined forces in this first project - work that we now apply in several SFB projects.
You can find the video on our shared YouTube Channel Göttingen Cognition and Behavior Research
Göttingen Cognition Forum: Curiosity and Interaction
We are excited to host the first Göttingen Cognition Forum in Göttingen, Germany, on October 13–15, 2025. Together with our colleagues from the RTG 2906, the Campus Institute for Dynamics of Biological Interaction, the Campus Insitute Data Science and the Human Cognition and Behavior Center, we are looking forward to welcoming researchers from around the world to discuss how social interactions and interaction with the environment shape cognition in humans and non-human animals. The Forum brings together diverse perspectives from neuroscience, psychology, behavioral biology, computational sciences, and related fields to foster interdisciplinary exchange and collaboration. The detailed scientific program, submission guidelines, and registration information can be found on the conference website We look forward to seeing many of you in Göttingen!
Fresh in eLife: Dyadic Interaction Platform – A novel tool to study transparent social interactions
The latest SFB publication is now out in eLife. This paper showcases the Dyadic Interaction Platform (DIP) – one of the core research tools developed and refined within the SFB over the past years. The DIP combines a transparent, touch-sensitive, bidirectional display with a shared workspace, enabling real-time, face-to-face social interaction in both humans and non-human primates. It supports naturalistic behaviour while maintaining precise experimental control, allowing for synchronized behavioural, physiological, and neural recordings across a wide range of paradigms.The publication is the result of a true interdisciplinary collaboration, with 20 active SFB members contributing their expertise in psychology, neuroscience, primate cognition, and engineering.
Raymundo Báez-Mendoza on the neural basis of social behavior
In Episode 28 of the local podcast "Neuroscience and Beyond", associated SFB-member and group leader at the German Primate Center, Raymundo Báez-Mendoza, discusses how the brain navigates our most fundamental social experiences — from trust and cooperation to fear and social distance. Combining research in humans and non-human primates, his lab uses game theory, structured behavioral tasks, and neural recordings to uncover the cognitive and emotional processes that shape social interaction. you can watch the full episode on YouTube and learn how neuroscience is shedding light on the mechanisms behind trust, memory, and connection.
How AI Helps Decode Primate Behavior
The work of our colleagues from the Leibniz ScienceCampus Primate Cognition laid the groundwork for several of the projects that we pursue in the SFB. The ScienceCampus funded important proof-of-concept studies, which were later expanded to SFB projects with a larger scope. The ScienceCampus funding came to an end in March 2025, but our colleagues wanted to take a look back at what had been achieved in the last years. The video team of SUB of the University of Göttingen followed our researchers and shot four YouTube videos outlining our approaches and goals. The first video was now released focussing on the question how artificial intelligence and machine learning can be used to quantify primate behavior faster, more efficiently and in more detail. In the video, SFB members Julia Ostner, Richard Vogg and Stefan Treue explain how they joined forces in this first project - work that we now apply in several SFB projects.
You can find the video on our shared YouTube Channel Göttingen Cognition and Behavior Research
Prof. Alexander Gail
Sensorimotor Neuroscience & Neuroprosthetics
University of Göttingen & German Primate Center Göttingen
Kellnerweg 4,
37077 Göttingen
Tel.: +49-551-3851-358 ContactDr. Christian Schloegl
Kellnerweg 4,
37077 Göttingen
Tel.: +49-551-3851-480
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