SFB 1528 - Cognition of Interaction

Wir freuen uns, morgen wieder in der #ChalkTalk Serie des @forumwissen.bsky.social dabei zu sein. Verpasst nicht wenn Lars Penke (@larspenke.bsky.social) von der @uni-goettingen.de über "Hormone und Sexualität" spricht.

Freitag, 13.2.2026 um 16.30 Uhr.

www.forum-wissen.de/event/chalk-...

Egocentricity in infants’ play with familiar objects in caregiver–child interactions Abstract. The current study explored the dynamics of parent–child coordinated attention to novel and familiar objects during a play session, to examine whe

2 new papers: Madhavan et al study the dynamics of episodes of joint attention in caregiver-infant interactions. We find that infants initiate more episodes of joint attention and more often to familiar objects. Mothers follow infants' attention to label familiar objects more doi.org/10.1098/rsos...

Postdocs, researchers and those who support them. Image thanks to Peter Heller

Are you a Postdoc in Göttingen?

Coming up: tours of the #ForumWissen, Research Images exhibition, #PostdocSocials and more. Join the #GCPostdocNetwork: goettingen-campus.de/postdoc

Save the date, Göttingen Postdoc Fair: 19 March: goettingen-campus.de/postdoc-event #CareerPaths #AdviceAndSupport

Join us at the Primate Cognitive Neuroscience Summer School in picturesque Bad Bevensen for two weeks of intense exchange about Systems Neuroscience!
When: 26 July - 7 August
Where: Bad Bevensen, Germany
Application deadline: 28 February
More details here: www.dpz.eu/pcn2026

YouTube video by Göttingen Cognition & Behavior Research Kirindy Forest. 30 years of research on the lemurs of Madagascar

📹New video🎞️: Claudia Fichtel (@kirindy.bsky.social; @primatenzentrum.bsky.social) takes you into the heart of the Kirindy Forest field station in Madagascar; learn what life in remote field station looks like.

in collaboration with @primatecognition.bsky.social

Watch here: youtu.be/pWygl1DlmLE

Fresh out another SFB paper, today by @tarananigam.bsky.social, Andrea Campos-Perez, Caspar Schwiedrzik and colleagues

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Paper alert: Kind of a serious fun paper 😂 - how to hold back laughter.
Published by @anne-schacht.bsky.social, Vanessa Mitschke, Annika Ziereis and Sriranjani Manivasagam (@uni-goettingen.de; @primatecognition.bsky.social) .

Paper is out in Comm Psychol: doi.org/10.1038/s442...

Multiple job alerts!

The @rtg2906-curiosity.bsky.social at the @uni-goettingen.de and @primatenzentrum.bsky.social has 10 openings for PhD students!

Join us now in Göttingen.

The entire team:
@elifkarakoc.bsky.social, @richardvogg.bsky.social, Michele Marziliano, Jakob von Petersdorff, @aecker.bsky.social, Claudia Fichtel & Peter Kappeler @kirindy.bsky.social

@primatenzentrum.bsky.social, @uni-goettingen.de @rtg2906-curiosity.bsky.social

funded by @dfg.de

... while some mastered the task, others tried to scrounge from successful box-openers.
As long as the experiment ran, successful individuals were groomed more often. Once the experiment was over, this fell back to baseline.

Foraging competence and its impact on social relationships in a socially tolerant wild primate - Animal Cognition Social interactions are crucial for individual health and ultimately fitness, making the choice of social partners evolutionarily relevant. Previous research has shown that individuals who succeed in ...

New publication from the Fichtel-Kappeler-Lab (@kirindy.bsky.social) is out in Animal Cognition:
@elifkarakoc.bsky.social, @richardvogg.bsky.social & colleagues show: competence pays – briefly

Red-fronted lemurs could learn to obtain food from food boxes ...

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Postdoctoral Fellow (m/f/d) | MEG and Cognition of Interaction Postdoctoral Fellow (m/f/d) - MEG and Cognition of Interaction

Do you want to join us?

Our colleagues @violapriesemann.bsky.social (MPI Dynamik & Selbstorganisation) & Michael Wibral (@uni-goettingen.de) recruit a postdoc to develop dyadic interaction paradigms suitable for OPM-MEG at our new research building #HuCaB

www.mpg.de/25532084/pos...

🎧Hier zum Wochenende eine Podcast - Empfehlung 🎧

Unsere Vize-Sprecherin @anne-schacht.bsky.social (@primatecognition.bsky.social; @uni-goettingen.de) hat sich mit dem @forumwissen.bsky.social Team über die Rolle von Emotionen unterhalten.

Viel Spaß beim Zuhören! 😀

Finally, many thanks to all helpers and our co-organisers @rtg2906-curiosity.bsky.social, @spp2205.bsky.social, the Campus Institute Dynamics of Biological Networks, the Campus Institute Data Science and the Human and Cognition Research Center @uni-goettingen.de

Special thanks to our wonderful line-up of keynote speakers Jaqueline Gottlieb, Bahador Bahrami, Judith Burkart, @stevewcchang.bsky.social, Nachum Ulanovsky & @apalmigiano.bsky.social.

A Shout-out to our sponsors @dfg.de and MWK Niedersachsen, which made it possible for everyone to attend for free!

That was fun! Thanks to everyone who joined us for the First Göttingen Cognition Forum this week.

We really appreciated the many talks and posters and the lively atmosphere at the meeting. We feel this was a great start and we hope that the Cognition Forum will continue ...

The Göttingen Cognition Forum: Curiosity & Interaction We are pleased to announce the First Göttingen Cognition Forum: Curiosity & Interaction Social and physical interactions with the environment shape cognition in humans and non-human animals alike. Und...

The countdown is on: our 1st Göttingen Cognition Forum starts Monday, Oct 13!
We’re excited about the great response and look forward to inspiring talks on this year’s theme: Curiosity and Interaction.

@spp2205.bsky.social @rtg2906-curiosity.bsky.social @uni-goettingen.de
events.gwdg.de/event/1099/

Ein Fernsehtipp zum Wochenende:
Das Bayerische Fernsehen zeigt eine Doku über die Sprache der Tiere.
Mit dabei: Julia Fischer (@sfb1528.bsky.social; @primatenzentrum.bsky.social ) und ihre Forschung darüber, wie Affen kommunizieren.

📆27.9.2025, 18:45 BR Fernsehen & Mediathek (s.gwdg.de/TDMmkf)

Job Alert!

Come and join our team at our field site CRP Simenti in Senegal. Julia Fischer @julxf.bsky.social (@primatenzentrum.bsky.social) is recruiting a #Research_Manager. Work with the wonderful lovely Guinea baboons and manage our long-term data collection.

👉 www.dpz.eu/karriere/ste...

Congratulations for a successful first year! Great to have you on Campus and thank you very much for the wonderful collaboration!

Peter Kappeler, in akademischer Festrobe, nach der Verleihung seiner Ehrendoktorwürde an der Universität Antananarivo. Er steht gemeinsam mit Claudia Fichtel und einer Gruppe madagassischer Studierender in türkisfarbenen Poloshirts vor dem Universitätsgebäude. Alle blicken lächelnd in die Kamera und unterstreichen die feierliche und zugleich gemeinschaftliche Atmosphäre des Anlasses.

🎉 Congratulations to Peter Kappeler (@kirindy.bsky.social) on receiving an honorary doctorate from the University of Antananarivo!
Honoring an outstanding scientific career, commitment to Madagascar and support for early career researchers.

We are proud to have him as part of our SFB family!

Join our SFB 1528 today at 3 PM at the @primatenzentrum.bsky.social in Göttingen:

Sanja Bauer Mikulovic (Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology Magdeburg) will speak about

Neural Mechanisms Underlying Helping in Mice

(for details -> www.uni-goettingen.de/de/686255.html)

Don't miss it!

Submit your abstract for our Satellite Symposium on Computational Neuroscience to celebrate 20 years Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience Göttingen!

Deadline for your abstracts is August 17!

Participation is free!

Join us in Göttingen on Oct 15!

Features:
Face-to-face visibility of participants
simultaneous presentation of stimuli and shared task contexts
Flexible experimental paradigms
Usable with adults, children, non-human primate dyads

result of a long-term project with @primatecognition.bsky.social and @rtg2906-curiosity.bsky.social.

Fresh in eLife: Dyadic Interaction Platform: A novel tool to study transparent social interactions
Happy to share this truely collaborative work of 20 SFB members: core experimental platform enables real-time, face-to-face social interaction with precise experimental control

doi.org/10.7554/eLif...

The Göttingen Cognition Forum: Curiosity & Interaction We are pleased to announce the First Göttingen Cognition Forum: Curiosity & Interaction Social and physical interactions with the environment shape cognition in humans and non-human animals alike. Und...

🚨 Abstract Deadline approaching!
Submit your contribution to the Göttingen Cognition Forum: Curiosity and Interaction by August 1st!
📍 Göttingen, Oct 13–15, 2025
🎟️ Participation is free, but registration required

All details & submission portal: events.gwdg.de/e/goettingen...

See you in Göttingen!

We congratulate all newly elected members of the Leopoldina on this well-deserved recognition!
We are especially happy for @stefantreue.bsky.social (@primatenzentrum.bsky.social, @sfb1528.bsky.social) who has now joined Germany’s National Academy of Sciences. 🍾

Congratulations! 🎆
@uni-goettingen.de

Join us tomorrow, July 15th, for the last talk in our SFB Lecture Series before the start of the summer break.

At 10 AM, we have the pleasure to host Joah Madden from the University @exeter.ac.uk.

The lecture is organised by @kirindy.bsky.social

Venue: Lecture hall @primatenzentrum.bsky.social

Portrait pictures of Anne Schacht (left) and Marcella Woud (right)

Congratulations to our vice-speaker @anne-schacht.bsky.social & our associated member @marcellawoud.bsky.social (@uni-goettingen.de) on being elected to the Göttingen Academy of Sciences! We warmly congratulate them on this great recognition! 👏🎉