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18.11.2010 Perceptual changes – a key to our consciousness

Dichoptic stimulus. Different pictures are presented to the eyes to provoke percept changes (binocular rivalry). Picture: Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics Tübingen. Dichoptic stimulus. Different pictures are presented to the eyes to provoke percept changes (binocular rivalry). Picture: Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics Tübingen. Proband seated in a confortable chair, with her chin on a chin rest conducting an experiment. A CRT monitor with shutter glasses was used for the dichoptic stimulus presentation. Picture: Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics Tübingen. Proband seated in a confortable chair, with her chin on a chin rest conducting an experiment. A CRT monitor with shutter glasses was used for the dichoptic stimulus presentation. Picture: Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics Tübingen.

Tübingen scientists use image processing effects to decipher brain functions

Category: Press Release, News, Biological Cybernetics
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08.11.2010 Dirty Lakescapes

Dirty Landscapes July 3, 2005 - Acryl painting 25 x 34 cm. Painting: Mark Krause. Mark Krause in the Hirschauer lake, while painting (2009). Photo: Wolfgang Hänssler.

The Max Planck House in Tübingen presents paintings from Mark Krause
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14.10.2010 Greatest warming is in the north, but biggest impact on life is in the tropics

Even though global warming is not increasing temperatures in the tropics as much as in the northern temperate zone and the Arctic, the metabolic effects on cold-blooded creatures that live there, such as this caiman lizard, will be greater than on creatures living farther north. Picture: Tim Vickers; Wikimedia Commons

Just because the temperature change in the tropics is small doesn't mean the biological impacts will be small
Category: Press Release, News, Developmental Biology
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14.10.2010 Learning to use an invisible visual signal for perception

A cylinder made of horizontal lines: Using a spezial pair of glasses the blue lines are only visible fort he right ey and the red lines are only visible fort he left eye. The size of the red and blue cylinder differs. Picture: Dr. Massimiliano Di Luca; Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics Tübingen.

Scientists discovered, how our brain extracts signals from the retinal images in order to identify our surroundings
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06.09.2010 The intricate path of nerve signals

Example of a 3D activation map elicited by electric microstimulation (ES) to LGN, a thalamic nucleus that receives visual information from retina and mono-synaptically projects to the primary visual cortex (V1). FMRI signals from V1 show increased neuronal activity (red and yellow colors) whereas later cortical areas are suppressed (blue color). (Image: Yusuke Murayama / Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics) Electron microscopy image of a microelectrode used in electric stimulation of the brain. (Photo: Heinz Schwarz / Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology)

Neuroscientists from Max Planck Institute in Tübingen discovered new possibilities for electrical stimulation of the brain
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