Press Releases

"Route is being recalculated due to lightning strike": Place cells in the hippocampus are thought to be part of an internal “GPS system” that keeps track of our position in space. Stimulation with small electrical discharges can reprogram them. Image:
03-04-18
Press Release: How to Reprogram Memory Cells in the Brain
Tübingen Neuroscientists reprogram brain cells to investigate how place memories are formed
07-03-18
Press Release: Why the World Looks Stable While We Move
Tübingen Neuroscientists investigate the interaction of visual perception and head movements with functional magnetic [...]
30-01-18
Press Release: Understanding TMS: What Magnetic Fields Do in the Brain – And How to Observe It
27-11-17
Press Release: Not Blinded by the Light: Rods in the Retina Contribute to Daylight Vision
Findings of international research team may be beneficial for new treatments for patients suffering from loss of vision [...]
12-10-17
Press Release: Forschen am Gehirn: Attempto-Preis für zwei Neurowissenschaftlerinnen
German only
06-09-17
Press Release: Friedmund Neumann Prize for Ivana Nikić-Spiegel
18-07-17
Press Release: Getting Lab Equipment on the Cheap
Tübingen neuroscientists develop inexpensive, self-manufactured lab equipment
08-02-17
Press Release: Zapping between Channels in the Retina
16-01-17
Press Release: „Baby Talk“ in Marmoset Monkeys
Tübingen neuroscientists have discovered that the young of common marmosets need their parents’ direct feedback to grow [...]
12-01-17
Press Release: 1.2 Million Euros Funding for New Imaging Technology in Brain Research
Professor Klaus Scheffler wants to test new methods in magnetic resonance imaging
15-11-16
Press Release: Active and Inactive Cells in the Brain’s Memory System
Tübingen neuroscientists are the first to find evidence of differing morphology in neurons
10-11-16
Press Release: Wie das Gehirn ursächliche Zusammenhänge erkennt
Tübinger Forscher finden heraus: Spiegelneurone sind an der Wahrnehmung von Kausalität beteiligt
28-10-16
Press Release: Emmy Noether Programme Grant for Ivana Nikić
07-10-16
Press Release: Not Really a Matter of Choice?
Tübingen Neuroscientists find evidence that the motor cortex can influence decision making in favour of an alternation [...]
19-09-16
Press Release: Der Geruchssinn geht aufs Ganze
Duftgemische werden vom Gehirn als ganzheitliche Muster erkannt (German version only)
06-07-16
Press Release: A Sense of Direction in the Brain – Seeing the Inner Compass
Head direction cells in rodents are directly connected with other neuronal structures used in navigation, most [...]
09-06-16
Press Release: Bifocals in the Brain
Visual information from near and far space is processed with differing degrees of acuity
17-05-16
Press Release: What is "Attention"?
Neuroscientists from Tübingen and Okasaki (Japan) clear up a little-understood problem: Tiny eye movements filter [...]
04-02-16
Press Release: Been Here before - How the Brain Builds Place Memories
Tübingen researchers activate previously dormant memory cells
06-01-16
Press Release: What the Mouse Eye Tells the Mouse Brain
Tübingen neuroscientists show that the interpretation of images begins in the retina