by Maja Griem | May 21, 2025 | Events and Press
Primary School Children Outperform All Other Age Groups A learning experiment with participants of different ages produced surprising results. The ability to make the connection between an event and its consequences – experts use the term associative learning –...
by Maja Griem | May 21, 2025 | Events and Press
“Wahrnehmen & Verstehen – die Welt, sich selbst & andere” “Perceiving & Understanding – the World, Oneself, & Others” Forschende aus der Philosophie der drei Ruhrgebietsuniversitäten zeigen im Dortmunder U optische...
by Maja Griem | May 21, 2025 | Events and Press
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...
by Maja Griem | May 21, 2025 | Events and Press
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...
by Maja Griem | May 21, 2025 | Events and Press
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...
