Measuring the brain
Maps of the brain are an important tool to understand how the brain works. Unless the map is wrong. In a recent study ESI group leader Martha Nari Havenith and colleagues show that a lot of the research looking at emotional and cognitive processing in rodents relies on a mapping system that doesn’t make sense. … read more
Research Groups
Fries Lab | Neuronal synchronization's mechanisms, its consequences and its cognitive functions.
Singer Lab | Neuronal processes underlying higher cognitive functions and their deterioration in disease
Cuntz Lab | What are the fundamental principles of wiring in the brain?
Havenith & Schölvinck Lab | How do brains simultaneously encode multiple cognitive processes during natural behaviour?
Laurens Lab | Electrophysiology and modeling of navigation and vestibular systems.
Vinck Lab | Neural coding: How does the brain use prediction and timing to encode information?
Welcome
… to the Ernst Strüngmann Institute (ESI) for Neuroscience in Cooperation with Max Planck Society. The ESI 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.
News
COVID-19 precautions at ESI
The number of COVID-19 infections in Germany is on the rise. In order to help slowing down the spread of the virus, ESI adopts the general recommendations for social distancing. As a consequence visits to the ESI are restricted. … read more
Art and artificial neurons
ESI scientists Hermann Cuntz and Marvin Weigand publish their research in an unusual way. Their simulated neurons are currently being exhibited at the renowned art museum Centre Pompidou in Paris. … read more
Events
17 July 2020Online ESI Lecture by Eric Lowet
8 May 2020CANCELED!! - ESI Lecture by Chong Xie
24 March 2020CANCELED!! - ESI Lecture von Christina Buetfering
24 January 2020ESI Lecture by Julio Hechavarria
14 January 2020 22 November 2019