Our research groups

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Poeppel Lab

Brain basis of language, speech and music

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Fries Lab

Mechanisms and functions of rhythmic neuronal synchronization

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Singer Lab

Neuronal processes underlying higher cognitive functions

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Rademaker Lab

The mechanisms giving rise to human perceptual experiences

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Cuntz Lab

The fundamental principles of wiring in the brain

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Havenith & Schölvinck Lab

Simultaneous encoding of cognitive processes during natural behaviour

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Laurens Lab

Electrophysiology and modeling of navigation and vestibular systems

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Schmidt Lab

Mapping of the entorhinal-hippocampal neuronal network

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Vinck Lab

Using prediction and timing to encode information in the brain

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Former Labs

News

The ESI mourns loss of Richard Murphy

5 April 2022 ESI board member Richard Murphy died March 24, 2022. … read more

Prediction games in the brain

9 March 2022 Researchers at our institute investigate how the brain responds to the predictability of natural images. … read more

Coherence turned upside down

16 February 2022 Unlike previously thought, communication does not require coherence. If you want to find out why … … read more

Dendritic constancy - equality in the brain

12 December 2021 Neurons with vastly different sizes and shapes of dendrites display surprising equality. If you want to find out about this new principle … … read more

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Lectures

8 June 2022

ESI TALKS: Michael Landy

3 June 2022

ESI TALKS: Hayriye Cagnan

19 May 2022

ESI TALKS: Gemma Roig

5 May 2022

ESI TALKS: Earl K. Miller

21 April 2022

ESI TALKS: Bing Brunton

8 April 2022

ESI TALKS: Julia Veit

ESI

The Ernst Strüngmann Institute (ESI) for Neuroscience in Cooperation with Max Planck Society

… is an independent research institute financed by the Ernst Strüngmann Foundation which was created by Drs. Andreas and Thomas Strüngmann and named after their father Dr. Ernst Strüngmann. The ESI is under the scientific governance of the Max Planck Society with the mission to perform excellent fundamental brain research. ESI research focuses on understanding how the many parts of the brain work together to bring about our behaviour.

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