Welcome to SFB 1528 - Cognition of Interaction
Salon-Debatten in the Forum Wissen: Animal testing in research
In the midst of heated debates in society and politics, the question arises: can't animal testing simply be stopped? In the EU, no cosmetics may be tested on animals, the shredding of chicks has been stopped in Germany and the ethics and scientific necessity of animal testing in science is also being questioned. What would a complete ban mean for science and society? What are the arguments for and against animal experiments in science? What animal-free methods are available? And how can these be used effectively in research? The ethical issues surrounding the topic of animal testing are complex. How does science meet these challenges? Deutschlandfunk journalist and presenter Vladimir Balzer will discuss these questions on September 17 with hearing researcher Tobias Moser, medical ethicist Silke Schicktanz, Director of the German Primate Center and SFB 1528-PI Stefan Treue, and long-standing MEP Viola von Cramon-Taubadel (Bündnis 90/Die Grünen).
Places are limited, please register on the Forum Wissen Website
SFB Retreat 2024
From August 21-23, this year's SFB retreat took place at the beautiful historic observatory of the University of Göttingen. Over three days, almost 60 members of the SFB discussed the diverse and promising developments of the past year and the outlook for an exciting and eventful project year 2025. A special thank you to our project partners Elad Schneidman and Noam Dotam, who made the journey from Israel to attend the retreat even in the current difficult times.
Annika Ziereis and Anne Schacht honored for outstanding publication
Annika Ziereis and Anne Schacht were awarded the prize for the best publication by the Psychonomic Society. Their work appeared in the journal Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience. In their award-winning study “Motivated attention and task relevance in the processing of cross-modally associated faces: Behavioral and electrophysiological evidence”, Ziereis and Schacht investigated how affective stimuli - in this case emotional speech sounds - can influence the processing of neutral faces. In an experiment, the participants learned to associate faces with emotional speech sounds and were then tested to see how well they could recall these associations. This showed that negative emotional associations are processed in the brain at an early stage, regardless of the task. In contrast, positive and negative associations only influenced later processing stages if the task was explicitly aimed at classifying emotional valence. These results illustrate how important the type of attention is in the processing of emotional information and that emotional associations can be successfully established between different sensory modalities.
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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