Building a State of the Art Clinical Audiology Unit

Join us for a deep talk with Tobias Moser, Director of the Institute for Auditory Neuroscience, University Medical Center Göttingen. Hosted and presented by Lucia Melloni, Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics.

Recent Approaches to Bodily Rhythms

Exhibition of INHABIT Artists-in-Residence opens at the Museum Angewandte Kunst

Lecture and Performance

A Lifelong Quest to Unravel Consciousness

Join us for a deep talk with Christof Koch, Chief Scientist and President of the Allen Institute for Brain Science in Seattle in the Pacific Northwest, USA.

Hosted and presented by Lucia Melloni, Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics.

What does it mean to be a scientist or scholar? “Growing up in Academia” is a conversation series with academics at different stages of their careers focusing on the sometimes short, sometimes long and winding roads behind the “official CV”. On Monday, February 28, 2022, 6 p.m. Growing Up in Academia features Onur Güntürkün, Professor in Biopsychology, Psychology Department, Ruhr-Universität Bochum.
Hosted and presented by Lucia Melloni, Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics.

What does it mean to be a scientist or scholar? “Growing up in Academia” is a conversation series with academics at different stages of their careers focusing on the sometimes short, sometimes long and winding roads behind the “official CV”. On Monday, November 29, 2021, 6 p.m. Growing Up in Academia features Beatriz Calvo-Merino, Reader / Associate Professor in Cognitive Neuroscience,Cognitive Neuroscience Research Unit (CNRU), Psychology Department, City, University of London.
Hosted and presented by Lucia Melloni, Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics.

What does it mean to be a scientist or scholar? “Growing up in Academia” is a conversation series with academics at different stages of their careers focusing on the sometimes short, sometimes long and winding roads behind the “official CV”. On Monday, November 29, 2021, 6 p.m. Growing Up in Academia features Ida Momennejad, senior Reinforcement Learning researcher at Microsoft Research NYC.  Hosted and presented by Lucia Melloni, Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics.

Building a Career Between Science and Music

What does it mean to be a scientist or scholar? “Growing up in Academia” is a conversation series with academics at different stages of their careers focusing on the sometimes short, sometimes long and winding roads behind the “official CV”. On Monday, November 1, 6 p.m. 2021, Growing Up in Academia features Fredrik Ullén, Director of the Department of Cognitive Neuropsychology at the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics and Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm. Hosted and presented by Lucia Melloni, Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics.

The Importance of Integrity

What does it mean to be a scientist or scholar? “Growing up in Academia” is a conversation series with academics at different stages of their careers focusing on the sometimes short, sometimes long and winding roads behind the “official CV”. On Monday, October 18, 5 p.m. 2021, Growing Up in Academia features Joyce Poon, Director at the Max Planck Institute for Microstructure Physics and Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Toronto. Hosted and presented by Lucia Melloni, Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics.

It’s Not a Story When You’re in the Middle of It!

What does it mean to be a scientist or scholar? “Growing up in Academia” is a conversation series with academics at different stages of their careers focusing on the sometimes short, sometimes long and winding roads behind the “official CV”. On Monday, September 20, 2021, Growing Up in Academia features Taufik Valiante, Director of the Surgical Epilepsy Program at the Krembil Neuroscience Center, Director of the Center for Advancing Neurotechnological Innovation to Application (CRANIA) and Associate Professor of Neurosurgery at the University of Toronto.

Hosted and presented by Lucia Melloni, Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics. The online application for this event is Zoom Webinar.

The French Connection

What does it mean to be a scientist or scholar? “Growing up in Academia” is a conversation series with academics at different stages of their careers focusing on the sometimes short, sometimes long and winding roads behind the “official CV”. On Monday, February 22, 2021, Growing Up in Academia features Daniela Sammler, Research Group Leader Neurocognition of Music and Language at our Institute (MPI for Empirical Aesthetics).

Hosted and presented by Lucia Melloni Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics. The online application for this event is Zoom Webinar.

Mit Horst Bredekamp, David Poeppel, Felix Jäger und Yasuhiro Sakamoto

BUCHVORSTELLUNG UND PODIUMSDISKUSSION: Bilder als Denkformen.

Sticking With It Through the Mess

What does it mean to be a scientist or scholar? “Growing up in Academia” is a conversation series with academics at different stages of their careers focusing on the sometimes short, sometimes long and winding roads behind the “official CV”. On Monday, April 19, 2021, Growing Up in Academia features Rosanne Rademaker, Marie Curie fellow University California, San Diego (USCD), Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour and soon-to-be Max Planck group leader

Hosted and presented by Lucia Melloni Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics. The online application for this event is Zoom Webinar. 

Optimism, Perseverance and Passion

What does it mean to be a scientist or scholar? “Growing up in Academia” is a conversation series with academics at different stages of their careers focusing on the sometimes short, sometimes long and winding roads behind the “official CV”. On Monday, March 22, 2021, Growing Up in Academia features Asifa Akhtar, Director at the MPI for Immunobiology and Epigenetics in Freiburg and Vice President of the Biology and Medicine Section in the Max Planck Society.

Hosted and presented by Lucia Melloni Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics. The online application for this event is Zoom Webinar. 

Prof. PhD Matthew Larkum Humboldt University, Berlin

Prof. Dr. Andreas Nieder  Animal Physiology, Institute of Neurobiology, University of Tübingen

Location: Zoom Lecture

Dr. Alexis D.J. Makin, Lecturer Psychological Sciences, University of Liverpool

Location: Zoom Lecture

Prof. Uri Hasson, PhD, Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience, Princeton Neuroscience Institute

Location: Zoom Lecture

New Music / New Listening. Music by Arnold Schoenberg and others (with special guest Nuria Schoenberg-Nono).

Busting Sports Myths with Endurance and Dedication

What does it mean to be a scientist or scholar? “Growing up in Academia” is a conversation series with academics at different stages of their careers focusing on the sometimes short, sometimes long and winding roads behind the “official CV”. On Monday, September 21, 2020, Growing Up in Academia features Karen Zentgraf, Professor for Movement and Exercise Science at Goethe University, Frankfurt.

Hosted and presented by Lucia Melloni Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics. The online application for this event is Zoom Webinar. 

Linguistics Flash - Mobs featuring David Poeppel, PhD

We are presenting a symposium at this year’s Virtual Convention of the American Psychological Association. You are invited to watch our talks online and to join us for some live scientific exchange with our discussant Ellen Winner.

Location: Zoom Meeting

Dr. Viola Priesemann, Group Leader, Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Göttingen

Location: Zoom Lecture

Prof. Dr. Catherine Tallon-Baudry,  Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris

The online application for this event is Zoom Webinar. You can join the lecture by using this link.

Inside, Outside, Private, Public — Social Spaces in Beethoven's Piano Sonata in A Major, op. 101

Fabian Corver's Podcast featuring Prof. David Poeppel, PhD 

Prof. Dr. Federico de Martino, Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience, Maastricht University

Location: Zoom Lecture

Prof. Michael Kahana, PhD Professor of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania

Location: Zoom Lecture

Dr. Hui Zhang, Abteilung Neuropsychologie, Institut für Kognitive Neurowissenschaft, Fakultät für Psychologie, Ruhr-Universität Bochum

Location: Zoom Lecture

Prof. David Poeppel, PhD: Rhythms of speech and rhythms of brains

Laetitia Grabot, PhD, Post-doctoral fellow, Bielefeld University, Cognitive Neuroscience lab

Location: Zoom Lecture

Yunzhe Liu, Max Planck UCL Centre for Computational Psychiatry and Ageing Research

Location: Zoom Lecture

Dr. Renzo Huber VENI-Fellow in MR-Methods, Cognitive Neuroscience, Maastricht Brain Imaging Center, Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of Maastricht

and O. Faruk Gülban, PhD Student, Audition, Cognitive Neuroscience, Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience Departments, Maastricht University

Location: Zoom Lecture

Prof. Joshua Jacobs, PhD, Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University

Location: Zoom Lecture

Location: Room 416–419

Memories of a Memory Researcher

What does it mean to be a scientist or scholar? “Growing up in Academia” is a conversation series with academics at different stages of their careers focusing on the sometimes short, sometimes long and winding roads behind the “official CV”. On Monday, February 17th, 2020, Growing Up in Academia features Prof. Dr. Yee Lee Shing, Professor of Developmental Psychology, Goethe-University, Frankfurt.

Hosted and presented by Lucia Melloni, Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics.

Prof. Diogo Almeida, PhD, Associate professor in Psychology at New York University Abu Dhabi (NYUAD), Director of the Language, Mind and Brain Lab (LaMB Lab).

Location: Think Tank, 4th Floor

Prof. Ellen Lau, PhD, Department of Linguistics, University of Maryland

Co-Director of the KIT-UMD Magnetoencephalography Laboratory

Location: Think Tank, 4th Floor

Jiyun Shin (Humboldt University Berlin)

Location: Think Tank, 4th floor

Bo-Yong Park, PhD,  Multimodal Imaging and Connectome Analysis Lab, McConnell Brain Imaging Centre, Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital, McGill University

Location: Think Tank, 4th Floor

Prof. Dr. Yee Lee Shing, Institute of Psychology, Goethe University Frankfurt 

Location: Think Tank, 4th Floor

Not your „classical“ career...

What is it to be a scientist? How does one become a scientist? “Growing up in Academia” is a conversation series with academics at different levels of their career focusing on the sometimes short, sometimes long and winding roads behind the “official CV”.

Presented by Lucia Melloni Max-Planck-Institut für empirische Ästhetik

Prof. Dr. Dominik Endres, Theoretical Neuroscience, University of Marburg

Location: Think Tank

Prof. Dr. Luciano Rezzolla, Institute for Theoretical Physics, Goethe University

A one-day Symposium on eye-tracking research intended for doctoral students. Our goal is to create an environment for discussing different ways of analyzing eye movements, and implementing eye-tracking in various research fields. 

Organized by Franklenin Sierra and Monika Tschense

Prof. Thalia Wheatley, PhD, Dartmouth Social Systems Lab, Dartmouth College

Prof. Joseph LeDoux, PhD, Deputy Director CLaME

Henry and Lucy Moses Professor of Science, Center for Neural Science, New York University 

Steering Aircraft vs. Steering Research Projects

What is it to be a scientist? How does one become a scientist? “Growing up in science” is a conversation series with academics at different levels of their career focusing on the sometimes short, sometimes long and winding roads behind the “official CV”.

Presented by Lucia Melloni Max-Planck-Institut für empirische Ästhetik

The workshop is hosted by the CLaME Center directors  Prof. David Poeppel, PhD (also director MPIEA Department of Neuroscience and Professor of Psychology and Neural Science at New York University) and Prof. Cate Hartley, PhD (also Assistant Professor of Psychology and Neural Science at New York University)

Please note that this workshop is fully booked.

Location: Room 416–419

Dr. Sabine Hossenfelder  Reserach Fellow, FIAS Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Sciences

Location: Room 416-419

Hard Work Alone Is Never Enough

What is it to be a scientist? How does one become a scientist? “Growing up in Academia” is a conversation series with academics at different levels of their career focusing on the sometimes short, sometimes long and winding roads behind the “official CV”.

Presented by Lucia Melloni, Max-Planck-Institut für empirische Ästhetik

Dr. Daniel Oberfeld-Twistel, Associate Professor / Privatdozent, Johannes Gutenberg - Universitaet Mainz, Experimental Psychology

Laboratoire ICube UMR7357 Université de Strasbourg

Location: Think Tank, 4th Floor

The symposium is organized und hosted by Prof. David Poeppel, PhD, Prof. Lucia Melloni, PhD and Dr. Alessandro Tavano (Max-Planck-Institute for Empirical Aesthetics)

Location: Room 416-419

The WESTEND LECTURES ON BRAIN AND COGNITION host leading international researchers from the field of Cognition and Neuroscience.The goal is to present cutting edge research, advances in theoretical foundations, and technologies to stimulate an active debate in the field.

Dr. Judit Gervain, Laboratoire Psychologie de la Perception, Uni­ver­sité Paris Descartes

When life gives you Latin, make music out of it.

What is it to be a scientist? How does one become a scientist? “Growing up in Academia” is a conversation series with academics at different levels of their career focusing on the sometimes short, sometimes long and winding roads behind the “official CV”.

Presented by Lucia Melloni, Max-Planck-Institut für empirische Ästhetik

Über ihr Forschungsprojekt "The Brain on Screen" berichten am Donnerstag, 19. September Dr. Keyvan Sarkhosh und Dr. Alessandro Tavano vom Max-Planck-Institut für empirische Ästhetik im Rahmen des renommierten Krimifestivals in Daun / Vulkaneifel.

Christopher Heffner, PhD, University of Connecticut

Location: Think Tank, 4th floor

The WESTEND LECTURES ON BRAIN AND COGNITION host leading international researchers from the field of Cognition and Neuroscience.The goal is to present cutting edge research, advances in theoretical foundations, and technologies to stimulate an active debate in the field.

Nikolaus Kriegeskorte, PhD, Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience, Director of Cognitive Imaging; Principal Investigator at Columbia's Zuckerman Institute

Location: Room 416-419

Maria Florencia Assaneo, PhD, New York University

Location: Think Tank, 4th floor

Prof. David Temperley, PhD, Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester

Location: Think Tank, 4th floor

Dr. Arash Aryani, Freie Universität Berlin

Location: Think Tank, 4th floor

Prof. Dirk Bernhardt-Walther, PhD, University of Toronto

Location: Think Tank, 4th Floor

Laura Gwilliams, New York University

Location: Think Tank, 4th floor

O. Faruk Gülban, Maastricht University

Location: Think Tank, 4th Floor

Tutor: Franklenin Sierra, Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics 

Location: ThinkTank, 4th floor

Prof. Oded Ghitza, PhD, Boston University

Location: Think Tank, 4th Floor

The WESTEND LECTURES ON BRAIN AND COGNITION host leading international researchers from the field of Cognition and Neuroscience.The goal is to present cutting edge research, advances in theoretical foundations, and technologies to stimulate an active debate in the field.

Prof. Charan Ranganath is the Director of the Dynamic Memory Lab, UC Davis Center for Neuroscience and Professor of Psychology, UC Davis

The WESTEND LECTURES ON BRAIN AND COGNITION host leading international researchers from the field of Cognition and Neuroscience.The goal is to present cutting edge research, advances in theoretical foundations, and technologies to stimulate an active debate in the field.

Prof. Dr. Alexander Todorov, Professor, Associate Chair,  Department of Psychology, Princeton University

Prof. Gilles Laurent, PhD, Director Max Planck Institute for Brain Research

Location: Think Tank, 4th floor

From Physics to Zebrafish (with a Nobel Prize along the way)

What is it to be a scientist or scholar? How do I become one? “Growing up in Academia” is a conversation series with academics at different levels of their career focusing on the sometimes short, sometimes long and winding roads behind the “official CV”.

Presented by Lucia Melloni, Max-Planck-Institut für empirische Ästhetik

The WESTEND LECTURES ON BRAIN AND COGNITION host leading international researchers from the field of Cognition and Neuroscience.The goal is to present cutting edge research, advances in theoretical foundations, and technologies to stimulate an active debate in the field.

Ghislaine Dehaene-Lambertz, Ph.D., Cognitive Neuroimaging Unit, CEA DRF/I2BM, INSERM, Université Paris-Saclay, NeuroSpin center, 91191 Gif/Yvette, France

Prof. Dr. Melissa Le-Hoa Võ, Scene Grammar Lab, Goethe University Frankfurt

Location: Think Tank, 4th Floor

A Love Story. With Brains.

What is it to be a scientist? How does one become a scientist? “Growing up in science” is a conversation series with academics at different levels of their career focusing on the sometimes short, sometimes long and winding roads behind the “official CV”.

Presented by Lucia Melloni, Max-Planck-Institut für empirische Ästhetik

Kunst und Neurowissenschaften mit David Poeppel

Julio Hechavarria, PhD, Neurobiology of Auditory Computations Group (group leader), Institute for Cell Biology and Neuroscience, Goethe Uni

Location: Think Tank, 4th Floor

Prof. Dr. Janina Wellmann, Leuphana Universität Lüneburg

Location: Think Tank, 4th floor

Emmanuel Ponsot, PhD, Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris

Location: ThinkTank, 4th floor

Prof. Oded Ghitza, PhD, Boston University

Yaqing Su, Boston University

Location: ThinkTank, 4th floor

Yuranny Cabral-Calderin, Brain Imaging Center, Goethe University  

Location: Think Tank, 4th Floor

Dr. Minjung Kim, Technical University Berlin

Elika Bergelson, PhD
Crandall Family Assistant Professor, Duke University, Psychology & Neuroscience Dept., Center for Cognitive Neuroscience 

Location: ThinkTank, 4th Floor   

Kyoungseob Byeon, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, College of Information and Communication Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon, South Korea

Location: Think Tank, 4th Floor

The WESTEND LECTURES ON BRAIN AND COGNITION host leading international researchers from the field of Cognition and Neuroscience.The goal is to present cutting edge research, advances in theoretical foundations, and technologies to stimulate an active debate in the field.

Prof. Dr. Christian Doeller, Director at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig (Department of Psychology) and at the Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience, NTNU, in Trondheim / Norway

How a summer job turned into a career in visual research

What is it to be a scientist? How does one become a scientist? “Growing up in science” is a conversation series with academics at different levels of their career focusing on the sometimes short, sometimes long and winding roads behind the “official CV”.

Presented by Lucia Melloni, Max-Planck-Institut für empirische Ästhetik

Prof. Jeremy M Wolfe, PhD,                                  

Professor of Ophthalmology & Radiology, Harvard Medical School; Visual Attention Lab; Department of Surgery, Brigham & Women's Hospital    

Location: ThinkTank, 4th Floor       

Prof. Dr. Stefan Debener,

University of Oldenburg, Department of Psychology, Oldenburg, Germany and Cluster of Excellence Hearing4all, Oldenburg, Germany

Location: ThinkTank, 4th floor

The WESTEND LECTURES ON BRAIN AND COGNITION host leading international researchers from the field of Cognition and Neuroscience.The goal is to present cutting edge research, advances in theoretical foundations, and technologies to stimulate an active debate in the field.

Prof. Dr. Nikolai Axmacher, Research Department of Neuroscience, Ruhr-Universität Bochum

Prof. Johanna Devaney, PhD, Brooklyn College, New York City

Location: Think Tank, 4th floor

A two-day workshop for exploring, visualizing and analyzing human neurophysiological data (EEG, MEG, ECoG) using the open-source Python library MNE  (http://www.martinos.org/mne/stable/index.html)

Prof. Ofer Tchernikovski, PhD, Laboratory of Vocal Learning at Hunter College

Location: Think Tank, 4th floor

Prof. Catherine Hartley, PhD, New York University

Location: Think Tank, 4th Floor

Love at second sight for a career in brain sciences

What is it to be a scientist? How does one become a scientist? “Growing up in science” is a conversation series with academics at different levels of their career focusing on the sometimes short, sometimes long and winding roads behind the “official CV”.

Presented by Lucia Melloni, Max-Planck-Institut für empirische Ästhetik

The WESTEND LECTURES ON BRAIN AND COGNITION host leading international researchers from the field of Cognition and Neuroscience.The goal is to present cutting edge research, advances in theoretical foundations, and technologies to stimulate an active debate in the field.

Prof. Uta Noppeney, PhD, Chair in Computational Neuroscience, University of Birmingham, School of Psychology

Enzo Tagliazucchi, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Institute of Neurology

Location: Think Tank, 4th floor

Prof. Philippe Martin, French Dept, University of Toronto, LLF, UFRL, Université Paris Diderot

Location: Think Tank, 4th floor

Prof. Oded Ghitza, PhD, Boston University

Location: Think Tank, 4th floor

How a carpenter discovered his passion for neuroscience

What is it to be a scientist? How does one become a scientist? “Growing up in science” is a conversation series with academics at different levels of their career focusing on the sometimes short, sometimes long and winding roads behind the “official CV”.

Presented by Lucia Melloni, Max-Planck-Institut für empirische Ästhetik

Prof. Justin London, Carleton College Northfield, MN

Location: Think Tank, 4th floor

Dr. Liad Mudrik, Tel Aviv University, School of Psychological Sciences

Location: Think Tank, 4th floor

Prof. Michael Pitts, Reed College, Department of Psychology

Location: Think Tank, 4th floor

The WESTEND LECTURES ON BRAIN AND COGNITION host leading international researchers from the field of Cognition and Neuroscience.The goal is to present cutting edge research, advances in theoretical foundations, and technologies to stimulate an active debate in the field.

Prof. Giulio Tononi, PhD, is Director of the Wisconsin Institute for Sleep and Consciousness, University of Wisconsin-Madison, School of Medicine

The WESTEND LECTURES ON BRAIN AND COGNITION host leading international researchers from the field of Cognition and Neuroscience.The goal is to present cutting edge research, advances in theoretical foundations, and technologies to stimulate an active debate in the field.

Prof. Dr. Erich Schröger, Vice Rector for Research and Young Academics, Leipzig University and Professor for Cognitive and Biological Psychology, Institute of Psychology, Leipzig University

Location: Room 417-419, 4th floor

Dr. Hyojin Park, University of Birmingham, School of Psychology, is an expert on neural oscillatory mechanisms associated with human speech and memory.

Location: Conference room 416-419, 4th floor.

Prof. Tatiana Stroganova, Moscow State University

Prof. Virginie van Wassenhove, PhD

Cognitive Neuroimaging Unit, CEA DRF/Joliot, INSERM, Université Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, NeuroSpin center, 91191 Gif/Yvette, France

Location: Think Tank, 4th floor

In this workshop, Dr. Dejan Draschkow (Goethe University Frankfurt) will cover the theory and implementation of LLMs in R statistical programming environment.

Location: Art Lab Foyer

Symposium, organized by Lucia Melloni & Alessandro Tavano

Location: Room 417

Everyone is welcome to attend. Registration is required for logistics. Please register by Monday, July 9 if you plan to attend: Registration and Symposium Program

The WESTEND LECTURES ON BRAIN AND COGNITION host leading international researchers from the field of Cognition and Neuroscience.The goal is to present cutting edge research, advances in theoretical foundations, and technologies to stimulate an active debate in the field.

Uri Hasson, Psychology department and the Neuroscience Institute, Princeton University

Laura Gwilliams, Department of Psychology, New York University

Juliane Britz, PhD, Department of Medicine, Neurology, University of Freiburg

He was going to be a physician but a patient with brain damage changed his path...

What is it to be a scientist? How does one become a scientist? “Growing up in science” is a conversation series with academics at different levels of their career focusing on the sometimes short, sometimes long and winding roads behind the “official CV”.

Presented by Lucia Melloni, Max-Planck-Institut für empirische Ästhetik

Arianna Zuanazzi, Computational Cognitive Neuroimaging group, Computational Neuroscience and Cognitive Robotics Centre, University of Birmingham, Birmingham

Dr. Christian Keitel, Centre of Cognitive Neuroimaging (CCNi), University of Glasgow

Dr. Anne Keitel,  Centre of Cognitive Neuroimaging (CCNi), University of Glasgow

Dr. Conor Houghton, University of Bristol

Prof. Nina Kazanina, University of Bristol, Experimental Psychology

The Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics is launching a new lecture series: The WESTEND LECTURES ON BRAIN AND COGNITION will host leading international researchers from the field of Cognition and Neuroscience.The goal is to present cutting edge research, advances in theoretical foundations, and technologies to stimulate an active debate in the field.

Professor Leon Y. Deouell, Jack H. Skirball chair in brain research, Department of Psychology, Edmond and Lily Safra Center for brain research, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

The Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics is launching a new lecture series: The WESTEND LECTURES ON BRAIN AND COGNITION will host leading international researchers from the field of Cognition and Neuroscience.The goal is to present cutting edge research, advances in theoretical foundations, and technologies to stimulate an active debate in the field.

Professor Nicholas Turk-Browne, Department of Psychology, Yale University

The Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics is launching a new lecture series: The WESTEND LECTURES ON BRAIN AND COGNITION will host leading international researchers from the field of Cognition and Neuroscience.The goal is to present cutting edge research, advances in theoretical foundations, and technologies to stimulate an active debate in the field.

Professor William J. Idsardi, Department of Linguistics, University of Maryland

Director at the MPIEA, Professor at NYU, Graduate of MIT, passionate actor… Wait, what?!

What is it to be a scientist? How does one become a scientist? “Growing up in science” is a conversation series with academics at different levels of their career focusing on the sometimes short, sometimes long and winding roads behind the “official CV”.

Presented by Lucia Melloni, Max-Planck-Institut für empirische Ästhetik

The Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics is launching a new lecture series: The WESTEND LECTURES ON BRAIN AND COGNITION will host leading international researchers from the field of Cognition and Neuroscience.The goal is to present cutting edge research, advances in theoretical foundations, and technologies to stimulate an active debate in the field.

Speaker: Prof. Dr. Andreas K. Engel, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf

Vortrag von Prof. Dr. David Poeppel
 

Time and location of lecture: 11 am, 4th floor, MPIEA

Michael Wibral is professor at the Brain Imaging Center of the Goethe University, Frankfurt.

Time and location of lecture: 10:30 am, 4th floor, rooms 417–419, MPIEA

Nori Jacoby is currently a postdoctoral fellow in the McDermott Computational Audition Lab in the Brain and Cognitive Sciences Department at MIT, Boston.

Nijmegen Lectures: (Un)conventional Wisdom: 3 Neurobiological Provocations 

Time and place of event: 11 am, 4th floor, MPIEA Frank Russo, director of the SMART Lab in Ryerson University, is visiting the Department of Neuroscience on the 9-10^th of December 2015. On this occasion, he will participate in the IDEA lectures serials with the above talk.

Time and place of event: 2 pm, 4th floor, MPIEA Richard Prum is Professor at Yale University in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and will give a lecture about warblers and their plumage. At the moment, he is at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin.

Richard Prum is Professor at Yale University in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and will give a lecture about warblers and their plumage. At the moment, he is at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin.

Time and place of event: 9:45 am, 4th floor, MPIEA

Dr. Holger Hennig is visiting us from the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Göttingen from the Department of Nonlinear Dynamics & Network Dynamics Group.

Dr. Holger Henning (Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Göttingen from the Department of Nonlinear Dynamics & Network Dynamics Group) is a physicist with expertise in image analysis, biostatistics, human musical rhythms and innovation management.

Time and location of lecture: 10 am, 4th floor, MPIEA

Dr. Ulrich Pilatus is holding a Master degree in Physics and works as a Senior Researcher at the Brain Imaging Center in Frankfurt.

Dr. Ulrich Pilatus is holding a Master degree in Physics and works as a Senior Researcher at the Brain Imaging Center in Frankfurt.