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Research at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig revolves around human cognitive abilities and cerebral processes, with a focus on language, music, and action. More
Neurology (Villringer)
Neuropsychology (Friederici)
Social Neuroscience (Singer)
Psychology (Prinz)
Neurophysics (Turner)
News from the Institute
More than just the baby blues
Study at Leipzig Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences and Toronto Centre for Addiction and Mental Health investigates how postpartum depression arises and how it could be prevented
The network in our heads: What our brains have in common with the internet
Researchers from MPI for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences and Medical Faculty at the University of Leipzig develop new method for utilizing techniques known from internet search engines to analyze fMRI brain data
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Neuronale Basis des Verstehens von Zeige-Gesten bei Kleinkindern bereits sehr früh entwickelt
Girls' Day at the MPI for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences (German only)
Workshops on different research methods used by the institute on 22 April 2010
The power of sounds: How infants process voices
Current study looks into developmental origins of brain regions responsible for auditory processing in infancy (German only)
Noam Chomsky speaks at University of Mainz
"Poverty of Stimulus: Unfinished Business" lecture in programme of Angela D. Friederici's Johannes Gutenberg 'Stiftungsprofessur' 2010 (German only)
Our Infant and Child Studies
Upcoming Events at our Institute
Katja Mayer: Representation of attended and unattended object features: Evidence from psychophysics, fMRI, and DTI
Professor Barbara Shinn-Cunningham: Mechanisms of auditory attention
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