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Max Planck School of Cognition @mps-cognition.bsky.social · 8d

Congrats to our own @corvo1795.bsky.social, who is presenting his latest research with a poster BernsteinNeuro conference at Goethe University in Frankfurt! 🧠🧠🧠

Max Planck School of Cognition @mps-cognition.bsky.social · 8d

The annual Bernstein Conference is taking place in Frankfurt this week. If you attend then come and say hi! Here to talk about our fully funded PhD program! #passionforscience #maxplanckschools 👍🏻🧠👏🏾

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Max Planck School of Cognition @mps-cognition.bsky.social · 9d

Get to know New fellow @andreaeyleen.bsky.social from the MPI for Psycholinguistics. In a recent paper (Weissbart & Martin, 2024, Nature Communications), she shows that the brain doesn’t just rely on word statistics or grammatical rules, but it uses both. Very excited to have her in our program! 🧠🧠🧠

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Max Planck School of Cognition @mps-cognition.bsky.social · 13d

Interested in the link between cardiovascular and mental health or, in other “words” the ❤️ and 🧠 through brain-body states? A new paper by our speaker and fellow Arno Villringer with @michaelgaebler.com and Vadim Nikulin sheds more light on these interactions: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Brain–body states as a link between cardiovascular and mental health

Numerous studies in humans have demonstrated a strong link between heart and brain function at different timescales. We conceptualize this functional …

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Antonin Fourcade @toninfrc.bsky.social · 15d

📢Our peer-reviewed article about the AffectTracker is finally out! 😲🕹️📈
Traditional methods for rating emotion often miss the dynamic, moment-to-moment nature of feelings. We designed a tool to capture this continuous affective experience in real-time during dynamic emotional stimulation.

Frontiers | AffectTracker: real-time continuous rating of affective experience in immersive virtual reality

Subjective experience is key to understanding affective states, characterized by valence and arousal. Traditional experiments using post-stimulus summary rat...

doi.org

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Max Planck School of Cognition @mps-cognition.bsky.social · 19d

Need help with your application? Or wondering about if our program is right for you? Come and join one of our next virtual Q&A sessions on Sept 23rd! Sign up here: cognition.maxplanckschools.org/en/applicati...

Q&A Sessions

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Iyad Rahwan | إياد رهوان @iyadrahwan.bsky.social · 21d

Would you let AI cheat for you?

Our new paper in @nature.com, 5 years in the making, is out today.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Mariam Aly @mariamaly.bsky.social · 22d

How do we update our predictions when our environment changes?

The hippocampus rapidly integrates previously distinct sequences to support updated predictions.

Proud of this work with Hannah Tarder-Stoll & @chrisbaldassano.bsky.social!

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

The Hippocampus Rapidly Integrates Sequence Representations During Novel Multistep Predictions

Memories for temporally extended sequences can be used adaptively to predict future events on multiple timescales, a function that relies on the hippocampus. For such predictions to be useful, they sh...

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Max Planck School of Cognition @mps-cognition.bsky.social · 23d

We have fellows from a variety of institutions including our program including from our partner universities, @humboldtuni.bsky.social , @hhu.de and @uni-leipzig.de

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Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry @mpi-psychiatry.bsky.social · 26d

💡Our director Elisabeth Binder will speak about science, #history and #morality at the ECNP Congress in October. Read her interview below to get an insight into the difficult history of #psychiatry and of our Institute.

ECNP @ecnp.eu · 27d

💡Science, history, and morality — explore more in our interview with Elisabeth Binder, Germany.
🔗 ow.ly/gbjs50WV2gE

🧠 At the #ECNP2025 Congress, she will speak on the importance of #psychiatry and #science generally being grounded in a sense of what is right.

@mpi-psychiatry.bsky.social #science

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bioDGPS and DGPA @biodgps-dgpa.bsky.social · 26d

🚀 Young Scientist Retreat 2025 – Hamburg 🌍
📅 October 21–24, 2025

👉 Register here: tinyurl.com/ycmyshra (Google Form)
If this does not work, feel free to write [email protected]

Let’s connect, learn & grow together in Hamburg! 🌟
⁠ysr2025 #Biopsychology #YoungScientists
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Poster with key data for the Young Scientist Retreat 2025. Dates: October 21–24, 2025, in Hamburg, Germany. Costs: €100 for members of DGPA and bioDGPS, €150 for members of DGPA or bioDGPS, €200 for non-members. Includes: 3 nights with meals and coffee breaks at a&o Hamburg City in a 2-bed room (Spaldingstr. 160, 20097 Hamburg). Eligibility: Doctoral students, postdocs, and junior professors (up to 8 years after PhD). Registration deadline: September 29, 2025, 16:00 CET. Note: Membership can be obtained with the YSR application to benefit from discounts."

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Max Planck School of Cognition @mps-cognition.bsky.social · 29d

First virtual Q&A sessions will take place tomorrow! There is still time to register via our website: cognition.maxplanckschools.org/en/applicati...

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Max Planck School of Cognition @mps-cognition.bsky.social · 29d

First virtual Q&A sessions will take place tomorrow! There is still time to register via our website: cognition.maxplanckschools.org/en/applicati...

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Max Planck School of Cognition @mps-cognition.bsky.social · Sep 5

Our first virtual Q&A sessions will take place next week on Wednesday (Sept 10th) Sign up here if you would like to learn more: cognition.maxplanckschools.org/en/application… 🧠🧠🧠

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Max Planck School of Cognition @mps-cognition.bsky.social · Sep 5

Great presentation by our new fellow Dr. Sofie Valk about her research on the final (rainy 🥲) Welcome Day in Berlin! Have a fantastic start into the program cohort 2025! #passionforscience #maxplanckschools 💪🏻🧠🍀

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Elif Yildiz @elif-m-yildiz.bsky.social · Sep 3

Yesterday marked the start of my PhD journey with @mps-cognition.bsky.social. We are in Berlin for welcome week, presenting our research interests to each other and attending talks by @mps-cognition.bsky.social fellows. Loved learning about connectomics from @mhlab.bsky.social. Excited for the rest!

Max Planck School of Cognition @mps-cognition.bsky.social · Sep 3

Ready for their first group photo! We are excited to have cohort 2025 join our program! If you want to be part of us next year, now is the time to apply: cognition.maxplanckschools.org/en/application #passionforscience #maxplanckschools 🧠🧠🧠

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Max Planck School of Cognition @mps-cognition.bsky.social · Sep 4

The new application cycle for our fully funded international graduate program has just started. You can now apply via our website, sign up for a Q&A, or participate in the Applicant Support Program cognition.maxplanckschools.org/en ! 👍🏻🧠👏🏾#passionforscience, #maxplanckschools

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Max Planck School of Cognition @mps-cognition.bsky.social · Sep 3

Ready for their first group photo! We are excited to have cohort 2025 join our program! If you want to be part of us next year, now is the time to apply: cognition.maxplanckschools.org/en/application #passionforscience #maxplanckschools 🧠🧠🧠

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Max Planck School of Cognition @mps-cognition.bsky.social · Sep 2

We are not only welcoming our newest Cohort 2025 but also one of our new fellows Prof Moritz Helmstaedter from the MPI for Brain Research in Frankfurt! Thanks a lot for the fantastic talk.🧠🧠🧠 #passionforscience #maxplanckschools

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Emily May @emilybmay.bsky.social · Aug 28

New graphic dropping 🥁🥁🥁: Requesting your perspective on taboos in women’s and gender-diverse people’s health ⚧️
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Max Planck School of Cognition @mps-cognition.bsky.social · Aug 15

Since July 21st, we have a good reason to celebrate the summa cum laude Defense of the newly minted Dr. Hettwer who received her PhD from @hhu.de under the supervision of Prof. Simon Eickhoff @sbe.bsky.social with strongest support of Dr. Sofie Valk! Congratulations Meike!!!🥂👏🏻🥁🎊

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Max Planck School of Cognition @mps-cognition.bsky.social · Aug 2

Great to see one of our very own doctoral candidates here at CogSci 2025 in San Francisco presenting her latest research.. congratulations Marie!👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

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Max Planck School of Cognition @mps-cognition.bsky.social · Jul 31

CogSci 2025 is taking place in San Francisco now. A great keynote by Prof. Susan Carey from Harvard is gathering a packed auditorium. If you get inspired to earn your own PhD, come over and say Hi! #passionforscience #maxplanckschools 👋👋👋🧠👍🏻

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Max Planck School of Cognition @mps-cognition.bsky.social · Jul 25

The by now traditional Murder Mystery Dinner lended a nice theatrical touch to our Cognition Academy with the beautiful backdrop of Schloss Eckberg in Dresden. Huge thanks to all the involved artists and writers of the piece! #passionforscience #maxplanckschools 🥁🥂🥸👀

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Max Planck School of Cognition @mps-cognition.bsky.social · Jul 22

Having our annual Summer Cognition Academy at Schloss Eckberg in beautiful Dresden! Great talks and great to see everyone in person! And even the weather provides a full program…😜😂👍🏻#passionforscience #maxplanckschools