Which Way Did It Go? - New Insights into the Organization and Development of Brain Circuits That Compute Motion Direction

At the GCRI

On January 31, GCRI and the Max Planck Florida Institute (MPFI) will host "Which Way Did It Go? New Insights into the Organization and Development of Brain Circuits that Compute Motion Direction" featuring Dr. David Fitzpatrick (MPFI) and Dr. Joshua Sanes (Harvard). ...
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Natural Sciences

Research Areas

The FLASH facility at the national research center DESY, the world’s leading free-electron laser for research with photons, will make an important contribution to the European X-FEL X-ray free-electron laser, which will facilitate the study of the state of gas plasmas. ...
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New mechanistic insights into adaptive learning

News

Associative learning leads to changes in the brains internal connectivity The brain is a fantastically complex and mysterious device, too large and with too many internal connections to be entirely programmable genetically. Its internal connectivity must therefore self-organize,  ...
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Busso von Alvensleben

Consul General, Consulate General of the Federal Republic of Germany New York