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Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences
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The Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences has been established on 1 January 2004 by a merger between the former Leipzig Max Planck Institute of Cognitive NeuroScience and the Munich Max Planck Institute for Psychological Research. Following a two-year transitional period that set the stage for the joint institute's future research whilst simultaneously allowing ongoing projects at each branch to be continued, the Munich institute moved to Leipzig in 2005 / 2006. The MPI for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences now consists of four departments; a fifth department will be called into life in the near future:
• Neuropsychology (Prof. Angela D Friederici)
• Cognitive Neurology (Prof. D Yves von Cramon; Prof. Arno Villringer)
• Cognition and Action (Prof. Wolfgang Prinz)
• Neurophysics (Prof. Robert Turner)
• N.N. (N.N.)
Although the four existing departments are still housed in the building of the former MPI for Cognitive NeuroScience, an annexe is currently being built on a plot adjoining the present site of the Leipzig institute. The new building will be inaugurated in autumn 2008, providing unique conditions for joint interdisciplinary research into the behavioural and neurobiological bases of human cognition. This concentration of resources will, and already has, facilitate(d) a scientific synergy that has a pronounced impact upon the national and international cognitive and neurosciences communities.
A hallmark of the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences and its research strategies is the dovetailing of research, development, and engineering. The centre draws on elaborate modern imaging techniques - a new 7-Tesla scanner was taken into use last summer - which are gaining ground even as part of more conventional behavioural approaches. Both Leipzig's long tradition in conducting psychological and neuroscientific research and the ultra-modern equipment at the Institute provide an environment that offers new perspectives for the largely behavioural work of the former Munich institute. At the same time, researchers from the former MPI for Cognitive NeuroScience benefit from the wide range of behavioural science topics and related experimental paradigms brought in by the Munich groups.
Research at the Institute addresses human cognitive and cerebral processes, with particular emphasis given to action, language, and music. Specific research topics examine how humans plan and produce language and action, the way in which they perceive actions and action effects, as well as language and music. The main focus is on the interaction and common functional bases of production and perception in these and other cognitive domains. The MPI for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences provides an exciting framework for these topical and alluring theoretical domains, with the full gamut of cognitive and neuroscientific methodology available under one roof.
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| Stephanstr. 1 a |
Tel: +49 (341) 9940 - 00
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| 04103 Leipzig |
Fax: +49 (341) 9940 - 221
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