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...
by Maja Griem | May 21, 2025 | Events and Press
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...
by Maja Griem | May 21, 2025 | Events and Press
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...
by Nicolas Lindner | Sep 10, 2021 | Events and Press
Wozu haben wir ein Gedächtnis? Aktuellen Forschungen zufolge nicht nur dafür, um in Erinnerungen an Vergangenes zu schwelgen. Unser Gehirn speichert Erlebtes ab, um daraus Vorhersagen für die Zukunft ableiten zu können. Sollten diese nicht mit der Realität...
by Joshua | Apr 16, 2019 | Events and Press
Wie Dohlen sich merken, was sie wann wo getan haben (How jackdaws remember what they did where and when) Doktorandin Aylin Klarer verbringt viel Zeit mit den Dohlen – das muss sie auch, denn die Wildvögel sind Neuem gegenüber sehr skeptisch. Um mit den exzentrischen...
