Titone, L.; Ten Oever, S.; Martin, A. E.; Nikulin, V. V.; Meyer, L.: Neural oscillations in language processing: Tracking and predicting. 11th IMPRS NeuroCom Summer School, Leipzig, Germany (2022)
Solving problems, planning one's own actions, controlling emotions — these executive functions are fundamental processes for controlling our behaviour. Despite numerous indications, there has not yet been any clear evidence to support which brain areas process these abilities. A study has now succeeded in identifying the crucial region — with the help of a unique patient and the not-so-rare dysexecutive syndrome.
She wants to understand how innate and the environmental factors shape our brain and ultimately our thoughts and feelings: Sofie Valk, head of the new research group "Cognitive Neurogenetics" at the MPI CBS. A conversation about how she wants to investigate the function of brain structure, how genes and environment make us who we are - and how…
A brain imaging study of humans, apes and monkeys by scientists from Newcastle University and Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences published in Nature Neuroscience reports the discovery of an earlier evolutionary origin to the human language pathway and sheds new light on its remarkable transformation.