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At the Max Planck Institute's Children's Laboratory (Child Lab), for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, we investigate the way children understand and interpret themselves and others.

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Pain - When it hurts

Language – the big unknown

Stress: Too much of everything!

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Not just mood swings but premenstrual depression: Serotonin transporter in the brain increased

AI detects rare forms of dementia

The power of lines and strokes - how our brain recognises line drawings

Babies form a memory for grammatical relationships - even without sleep

Why the child's brain learns grammar effortlessly

With constructive feedback our brain learns the perfect timing

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On the trail of complexity - brain research at MPI CBS

Die vielfältige Wirkung von Druck

Entspannt bis in die Haarspitzen

BLOG: Thinky & Brain

Warum ist Abnehmen so schwer?

Exchange 7Tesla MRI scanner - Farewell & New Beginning

The Science of enjoyable Pop Songs

Hör mal!

The super brain scanner

A glimpse into our Language Development Lab

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