Welcome to SFB 1528 - Cognition of Interaction
„Interaktion neu denken“ – Panel discussion series organised by SFB 1528
Science is characterized by intense exchange and interaction among researchers, staff, students, and study participants. Scientific discourse and everyday life are based on a multitude of habits, norms and rules - often unwritten and unspoken. For people who are unfamiliar with these requirements and expectations, who are unable or unwilling to meet them, or who fail to recognize certain signals, the result is often an invisible barrier to a more diverse scientific community. In a three-part panel discussion series, SFB 1528 will explore the reasons that prevent people from participating equally in research and how we can all contribute to breaking down barriers in order to achieve greater diversity. Participants will represent affected people and stakeholders, as well as researchers working on the topic. All events will be moderated by Elena Everding of the Göttinger Tageblatt. All interested persons are cordially invited. Admission is free!
More information about the events can be found on our website
Julia Fischer Takes Over Johannes Gutenberg Endowed Professorship 2025 at the University of Mainz
Every year, the University of Mainz awards the Johannes Gutenberg Endowed Professorship to outstanding personalities who, "by virtue of their academic achievements or their significance in cultural and public life, are able to combine specialist perspectives and develop overarching insights". In a series of lectures, the professors will convey the image of a living science to the public at the University of Mainz. Julia Fischer will lead the audience through the world of primate societies. Topics will range from the diversity of social organisation and social behavior in primates, to the development and significance of social relationships, the adaptation of communication, and to social and ecological intelligence. Previous holders of the endowed chair include former German President Joachim Gauck, Nobel Laureate Anton Zeilinger and marine biologist Antje Boetius from the Alfred Wegener Institute in Bremerhaven.
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Best Article Award Ceremony in New York with Annika Ziereis and Anne Schacht
In September 2024, The Psychonomic Society announced that SFB members Annika Ziereis and Anne Schacht will receive this year's Best Article Award for their study "Motivated attention and task relevance in the processing of cross-modally associated faces: Behavioral and electrophysiological evidence", published in the journal Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience. On 23 November, Annika and Anne received the award at the Psychonomic Society's 65th Annual Meeting 2024 in New York. With more than 2700 participants from over 40 countries, the conference is one of the most influential and important meetings in cognitive science and psychology. The award-winning study makes a significant contribution to the understanding of the neural basis of emotional face processing. Annika and Anne were able to show that negative emotional stimuli can influence neural face processing at an early stage. In a later processing phase, attention plays a particularly important role, for example when different stimuli have to be categorised.
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Fabian Sinz receives ERC Consolidator Grant
Fabian Sinz, Associate Member of SFB 1528, has been awarded an ERC Consolidator Grant of two million euros. As the interaction between movement and visual perception in natural environments is extremely complex, the "Vision2Action" project aims to develop new machine learning methods to understand how movement influences the processing of visual stimuli in the brain. Using deep learning, Sinz and his team aim to create a "digital twin" of the visual system in order to reproduce and systematically study the complex dynamics between movement, internal brain states, and visual processing in the computer. The research combines state-of-the-art machine learning methods with experimental neuroscience and is conducted in close collaboration with partners at the University of Bonn and Stanford University in the USA.
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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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