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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.

Göttingen February 24, 2023

Measuring octopus cognition

With eight arms, large eyes, and shape-shifting skin, octopus’ bodies appear almost otherworldly. Their cognitive abilities fascinate us because they are comparable to those of vertebrates, yet our evolutionary lines diverged about 550 million years ago. The combination of their intelligence and uniqueness prompted neuroscientists to study the brains of octopods as early as 150 years ago. An international team including the University of Göttingen has now, for the first time, succeeded in measuring brain activity in octopuses moving freely through the water. While such studies are well established in mammals and birds, until now this has not been possible in octopuses. The study was published in the scientific journal Current Biology.


Berlin February 7, 2023

Fish schools work a bit like the brain

What do the brain and a school of fish have in common? They are both capable of efficient collective information processing, although each unit within them only has access to local information. In the brain, it is the stimuli from 86 billion neurons that form the basis for information processing; in the shoal, it is the decisions of each individual on how to move and interact with neighbors. However, little is known about how biological systems like the brain or a swarm of fish manage to optimally bring together a multitude of individual pieces of information from different locations. There is a hypothesis according to which the best performance of the brain lies at the border between order and chaos, in the state of so-called criticality. Researchers of the Cluster of Excellence "Science of Intelligence" from Humboldt-Universität (HU), the Technical University of Berlin (TU), and IGB have now been able to demonstrate this hypothesis on a large school of fish. The study was published in Nature Physics.


Tübingen February 7, 2023

Hertie Foundation establishes new institute combining artificial intelligence and neuroscience

Frankfurt am Main, February 7, 2023 - This month marks the launch of an outstanding project integrating artificial intelligence (AI) and neuromedicine – the Hertie Institute for Artificial Intelligence in Brain Health (Hertie AI). Founded on February 1 at the Medical Faculty of the University of Tübingen, it will be the first institute in Germany to research the prevention and early diagnosis of diseases of the nervous system using artificial intelligence methods.


Tübingen, Germany January 31, 2023

Using Deep Learning to make Better Models of the Brain

ERC Consolidator Grant for Tübingen AI researcher Professor Jakob Macke


Berlin, Germany January 26, 2023

Simulation of complex quantum systems

Realistic and precise - New algorithm enables simulation of complex quantum systems


Munich January 19, 2023

Neurotechnology for Treating Mental Disorders

Research Network Uses Big Data Models to Understand Neural Networks


Berlin, Germany January 3, 2023

€60 million committed to establish AI and robotics in healthcare

The EU project TEF-Health aims to test and validate innovative artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics solutions for the healthcare sector and accelerate their path to market. It is led by Prof. Petra Ritter, who heads the Brain Simulation Section at the Berlin Institute of Health at Charité (BIH) and at the Department of Neurology and Experimental Neurology of Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin. The 51 participating project partners from nine European countries will receive funding to the tune of about €60 million, with half coming from the European Commission under its Digital Europe program and half from national funding agencies. Some €2 million of the EC funding will go to the BIH.


Freiburg, Germany December 5, 2022

New findings on neuronal activities in the sensorimotor cortex

Interdisciplinary team at the University of Freiburg studies freely moving individuals using 3D tracking


Duisburg-Essen, Germany December 1, 2022

Study of handedness in primates: Left or right?

About 90 percent of all humans are right-handed. Why that is the case is still a mystery. According to current evidence, other primate species do not show comparable preferences. Zoologists at the University of Duisburg-Essen (UDE) and the Humboldt University Berlin have now attempted to close this knowledge gap in a new study. For this purpose, they tested the handedness of various monkey and ape species in 39 zoos and sanctuaries. The results were published in the journal eLife.


Freiburg November 15, 2022

New book: Selected Papers of George Gerstein

Just in time for the 2022 Society for Neuroscience Meeting in San Diego, Springer presents a new book in its Springer Series in Computational Neuroscience: Introducing Computation to Neuroscience – Selected Papers of George Gerstein.


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