Rubin Special Edition “Extinction Learning” published All about the work of the Collaborative Research Center 1280. Do you know this too? You get a new PIN for your debit card, memorize it at home, but then stand in front of the ATM and all that comes to mind is your...
A Small but Powerful Brain Pigeons are hard-working learners. And quite clever. A stroke of luck for the Bochum biopsychologists, who, thanks to them, are making advances into the fundamental mechanisms of extinction learning. A yellow square lights up. Peck! The...
The Value of Curiosity Fundamental research: Many people in academia are concerned with the pursuit of knowledge, without an explicit application in mind. Is that a good thing? A commentary by Onur Güntürkün. Many researchers are familiar with this situation: They are...
What Makes Places Lonely? In an ERC Consolidator Grant, Maike Luhmann is exploring how places relate to loneliness. She also hopes to find out how loneliness can be combated. Are there any places where people feel particularly lonely or where they don’t feel lonely at...
27 Professors Already Appointed The University Alliance Ruhr continues to expand its cutting-edge research in Duisburg-Essen, Bochum, and Dortmund. The four Research Centers and the College of the University Alliance Ruhr (UA Ruhr) form a new research hub in the Ruhr...
