From Vehicles to Modern AI: A new documentary about the institute's founding director, Valentin Braitenberg.
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Internationally oriented training program in cognitive sciences
With the internationally highly successful research project Brain Explorer, we are participating in the 2026 Year of Science on the MS Wissenschaft, addressing key questions of the medicine of the future.
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Key pillars of our doctoral funding: the International Max Planck Research School (IMPRS) and the Graduate Training Centre for Neuroscience (GTC) in Tübingen
Computation and Cognition Tübingen Summer Internship

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Core Cognition
Group leader: Marcel Binz

Code of the Mind

June 30, 2026
In this new podcast, we trace the history of computational neuroscience. Mind by mind, idea by idea. 

Light O´Clock

Podcast
A podcast on light and your body clock

Signals & Synapses

Podcast
Episode 3 - Tuned In: The Rhythms of the Brain
What are brain oscillations, and why do we need them? In this episode, co-host Chiara Zanonato sits down with neuroscientist Pascal Fries to explore how these rhythmic patterns emerge in the brain and what roles they play.

MP Neuro

Basic research in the neurosciences at the Max Planck Society

Pioneers of Science

The Nobel laureates of the Max Planck Society

75-Years Anniversary

The Max Planck Society was founded on February 26, 1948
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