Welcome to SFB 1528 - Cognition of Interaction



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Rhesus monkeys in the housing facilities at the German Primate Center in Göttingen; Photo: Margit Hampe (DPZ)

Patience pays off

In a new study led by Neda Shahidi, now SFB Early career fellow, neuroscientists show how decision-making processes are controlled in the primate brain during foraging. Two rhesus monkeys learned that the amount of pellets obtainable from dispensers in a open search task increased the longer they waited. By decoding monkeys’ reward expectations from the neural activity, the researchers were able to predict how long the rhesus monkeys were willing to wait for a higher reward and when they decided to choose another option. The results were published in Nature Neuroscience.

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Mouse lemurs are important to study the role of vision in the primate brain; Photo: Daniel Huber (Genf)

DFG grants 2nd funding period to SPP 2205 "Evolutionary Optimization of Neural Systems"

The SPP is headed by SFB-PI Fred Wolf (Campus Institut Dynamik Biologischer Netzwerke). What has driven the development of increasingly complex brains? Have there been real technological leaps? Are there universally valid algorithms that the various nervous systems consistently follow? Such questions are at the heart of the SPP, the world's first research network to apply computational and systems neuroscience to questions of evolutionary biology. The network partners are located in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. The DFG funds this network with 6.4 Mio. € in the next three years

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New paper by Ricarda Bothe & Nivi Mani

The study by SFB members Ricarda Bothe and Nivi Mani with colleagues from the University of Potsdam looked at the effects of words and arbitrary actions in object categorization in infants. Even though they found a weak advantage of words, this was not robust across analyses

The details of the study can be found here

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Dr. rer.nat. Laura Hansmeyer

Congratulations to our PhD student Laura Hansmeyer for successfully defending her PhD thesis! Laura is a member of our project C05; in her PhD under the supervision of Alexander Gail, Laura investigated the neural correlates of complex action sequences. Congratulations Laura!


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Sensorimotor Neuroscience & Neuroprosthetics

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