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Bernstein Network News. Find the latest news from our researchers regarding current research results, new research projects and initiatives as well as awards and prizes.

Stockholm October 8, 2024

The Bernstein Network congratulates John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton on the Nobel Prize in Physics

This year’s two Nobel Laureates in Physics have used tools from physics to develop methods that are the foundation of today’s powerful machine learning. John Hopfield created an associative memory that can store and reconstruct images and other types of patterns in data. Geoffrey Hinton invented a method that can autonomously find properties in data, and so perform tasks such as identifying specific elements in pictures.


Bochum September 18, 2024

When Serotonin Dims the Light

A serotonin specific receptor can determine how important visual stimuli are perceived. This explains the effects of certain drugs and could help in understanding psychiatric diseases.


Bochum September 13, 2024

Understanding the Brain Thanks to Artificial Intelligence

Computer models of neural networks developed by humans can be arbitrarily far removed from reality. Nevertheless, they are a great help to researchers in planning and evaluating learning experiments.


Tübingen September 11, 2024

Researchers combine the power of artificial intelligence and the wiring diagram of a brain to predict brain cell activity

A team of scientists from HHMI’s Janelia Research Campus and the University of Tübingen have found a way to build artificial neural networks which accurately predict computations in living brains


Bonn September 5, 2024

Language improves learning in artificial networks

Bonn researchers get to the bottom of the social aspect of
communication for mental activity


Erlangen-Nürnberg September 3, 2024

FAU researchers gain major insights into how our brains work

In a pioneering study, the two scientists Dr. Patrick Krauss and Dr. Achim Schilling from the Cognitive Computational Neuroscience Group at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) have now used artificial intelligence to gain major insights into how our brains work that may substantially change our understanding of human thought processes and emotions.


Bonn September 2, 2024

Social network of synapses controls their actions

Researchers from Bonn and Japan clarify how neighboring synapses coordinate their response to plasticity signals


New York August 9, 2024

Elephant mouths have whiskers but not where you think they would be — elephants are also “lefties” or “righties”

New York – While Julie Andrews famously sang about “whiskers on kittens”, a new study published in Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences shines a light on the role of elephant whiskers, and the impact of trunk-directed eating behavior on them. The study by Yildiz and colleagues reports that the locations and types of elephant mouth whiskers (“vibrissae”), as well as altered elephant mouth anatomy, differ from that of other mammals. These modifications appear to be in response to the evolution of an elephant’s distinctive method of eating.


Bochum August 2, 2024

Storing Memories Without Destroying Previous Ones

The brain is constantly storing new experiences that it has to integrate into the jumble of existing memories. Surprisingly, it does not overwrite previous memory traces in the process.


Freiburg July 18, 2024

Analysing internal world models of humans, animals and AI

A team of scientists led by Prof. Dr Ilka Diester, Professor of Optophysiology and spokesperson of the BrainLinks-BrainTools research centre at the University of Freiburg, has developed a formal description of internal world models and published it in the journal Neuron. The formalised view helps scientists to better understand the development and functioning of internal world models. It makes it possible to systematically compare world models of humans, animals and artificial intelligence (AI). This makes it clearer, for example, where AI still has deficits compared to human intelligence and how it could be further developed in the future. Eleven Freiburg researchers from four faculties were involved in the interdisciplinary publication.


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