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Prostheses with Sensory Feedback
Freiburg researchers have developed electrodes that help amputees to grasp at objects
nuSPIC: Neural Systems Prediction and Identification Challenge
Scientists from Freiburg present an online tool to create and analyse neuronal networks
Article in "Science": Memories Are ‘Geotagged’ With Spatial Information
Using a video game in which people navigate through a virtual town delivering objects to specific locations, a team of neuroscientists from the Universities of Freiburg and Pennsylvania has discovered how brain cells that encode spatial information form “geotags” for specific memories and are activated immediately before those memories are recalled.
A novel view on the visual cortex
Theoretical model explains properties of sensory neurons and networks
Young researchers from Freiburg accepted in Network of European Neuroscience Institutes
Since October, Freiburg is a member of ENI-NET, the highly reputed Network of European Neuroscience Institutes.
Pictures from the Science Fair 2013
Visit the gallery of pictures of the joint exhibits of the BCF and the Cluster of Excellence BrainLinks-BrainTools.
Embedded nerve cells hold the key to brain activity
Scientists from Freiburg propose new approach to unravel the function of the human brain
New approaches in Parkinson’s research
Joint research between Freiburg and Jerusalem receives funding
European funding for Freiburg’s epilepsy research
Newly developed method will shed light on causes of the disease
The beating heart in your brain
Scientists from Freiburg investigate how our brain senses the beating of our own heart.
Details of connectivity play important role for network activity
Simulating a large variety of different networks, BCF scientists systematically evaluate which features in their structure most strongly affect their dynamics.
Science Jam Nr. 1: Ein bunter Abend mit Seh- und Hörforschern
Wissenschaft lebt vom Experimentieren. Viele Entdeckungen geschehen, wenn unterschiedliche Dinge zusammentreffen und auf unerwartete Weise miteinander reagieren. Dieses Prinzip greifen die „Science Jams“ auf: Die neue Veranstaltungsreihe des Bernstein Center Freiburg und des Exzellenzclusters BrainLinks-BrainTools der Universität Freiburg präsentiert Wissenschaft in ungewöhnlichen Zusammenhängen – weitab von Hörsälen und Seminarräumen.
Stimulating research
Scientists explore how spontaneous and evoked activity in the brain’s network of nerve cells interact
Zittern in Zahlen: Artikel in Gehirn und Geist [German]
Arvind Kumar und Gunnar Grah vom Bernstein Center Freiburg und BrainLinks-BrainTools beschreiben in der aktuellen Ausgabe von "Gehirn und Geist" die Erforschung der Parkinson-Krankheit mithilfe von Computermodellen.
‘Brain waves’ challenge area-specific view of brain activity
Our understanding of brain activity has traditionally been linked to brain areas – when we speak, the speech area of the brain is active. New research by an international team of psychologists led by David Alexander and Cees van Leeuwen (Laboratory for Perceptual Dynamics), including researchers from the Bernstein Center and BrainLinks-BrainTools at the University of Freiburg, shows that this view may be overly rigid. The entire cortex, not just the area responsible for a certain function, is activated when a given task is initiated. Furthermore, activity occurs in a pattern: Waves of activity roll from one side of the brain to the other.
No two cells act the same
Using mathematical theory, scientists discover effects of differences among neurons in the brain
Let the neuron do the work!
Using membrane potentials, scientists devise a novel method to infer dynamic interactions among groups of neurons
Reconstructing networks from spike train data
For networks with sparse connectivity, the underlying structure can be inferred from measured correlations