Max Planck School of Cognition

Sign up for our last virtual Q&A session for the current application cycle. Deadline is December 1st. cognition.maxplanckschools.org/en/applicati...

Congratulations to our own Max Hinrichs who presented his poster at SfN in San Diego! Great to see such success after all the hard work. 🧠🎊🧠🎊

Are you at the SfN in San Diego? And if you are considering a PhD in Germany next year, come and find out more! cognition.maxplanckschools.org/en/applicati...

There is still time to apply to our excellent and fully funded PhD program. Deadline is December 1st! Have a look here for more details: cognition.maxplanckschools.org/en/applicati... 🧠☘️🧠

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The Graduate Academy Leipzig is supporting doctoral researchers with information, advice, and workshops today, on Doctoral Researchers‘ Day. They will be putting the spotlight on the (future) doctoral researchers at their university. Check it out here: www.uni-leipzig.de/en/event-det...

Our Next virtual Q&As take place on Wednesday! Any questions about our program can be answered. Register via our webpage here: cognition.maxplanckschools.org/en/applicati... #passionforscience #maxplanckschools 🧠🎊🧠

If you are currently applying to our program and have any questions, sign up for one of our Q&A sessions this Wednesday: cognition.maxplanckschools.org/en/applicati...

We are proud of our very own Yuliya Kovalchuk who gave a fantastic presentation at this year’s MP Schools’ Day! 🧠🥂👍🏻#maxplanckschools @passionforscience

The annual Max Planck Schools’ Day is taking place at Harnack Haus in Berlin today! Welcome new cohorts and future game changers in your respective fields! 🎊🥂☘️👍🏻 #maxplanckschools #passionforscience

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

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 👍🏻🧠👏🏾

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! 🧠🧠🧠

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 …

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...

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...

📢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.

Q&A Sessions

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

💡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.

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."

🚀 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 sarah.danboeck@uni-mannheim.de

Let’s connect, learn & grow together in Hamburg! 🌟
⁠ysr2025 #Biopsychology #YoungScientists
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First virtual Q&A sessions will take place tomorrow! There is still time to register via our website: cognition.maxplanckschools.org/en/applicati...

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

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… 🧠🧠🧠

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 💪🏻🧠🍀

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!

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

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 🧠🧠🧠

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

New graphic dropping 🥁🥁🥁: Requesting your perspective on taboos in women’s and gender-diverse people’s health ⚧️
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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!!!🥂👏🏻🥁🎊