MPF 4 /2009

When people work together, they have to coordinate their actions very closely. Wolfgang Prinz, Director at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig, and his colleagues are investigating precisely what goes on in their heads in the process. More...

MPF 1 /2007

Ultimately, the brain serves to direct us to act purposefully and expediently. To do this, sensory impressions and experience must be implemented as planned motor activities – via a switching point, the premotor cortex. Ricarda Schubotz at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig is researching its function.More...

MPF 3 /2006

When and how personality develops is one of the core questions of the cognitive and brain sciences. An extensive study has now delivered some interesting answers. More...

MPF 3 /2002

In her public lecture at the MPS’s annual general meeting in Halle, Prof. Angela Friederici from the MPI for Neuropsychological Research explained the way in which our brain processes language. Mehr...