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...
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...
