Andrea Antal, Department of Neurology, University Medical Center Göttingen, Germany: Transcranial direct and alternating current stimulation in the clinical practice The number of patients with neurological and psychiatric disorders, such as chronic pain, Parkinson’s and Alzheimer diseases, depression and cognitive decline, has increased over the past decade, representing a prominent health problem worldwide. While pharmacological…

The lecture will be given by Rufin VanRullen, AI Research Chair at the Centre for Brain and Cognition Research and the Artificial and Natural Intelligence Institute in Toulouse, France. His work investigates the neural dynamics of visual perception, attention and consciousness, with a focus on neural oscillations, neural coding and deep learning. Title: Do deep…

For your calendar, Helmholtz retreat date: One way or another there will be a Helmholtz retreat this year. Mark your calendar: August 30-31, 2021.  

Abstract During the first years of life, sensory modalities communicate with each other. Since 2004 we have studied how the haptic, visual, and auditory modalities interact and are integrated during development. We have observed that specific sensory modalities are crucial for developing particular skills, and the absence of one sensory input affects the development of…

Ben Harvey and colleagues have published a paper in Nature communications: Topographic maps representing haptic numerosity reveals distinct sensory representations in supramodal networks. See  https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-20567-5

Everyone feel free to join the on-line Helmholtz Lecture by Marty Woldorff, Duke University: The dynamic relationship between reward and attention December 11th 2020 at 16:00, Zoom. Please find abstract below. Abstract: The cognitive functions of attention and reward processing both play fundamental roles in the successful functioning in our complex world.  Although these two…

Everyone feel free to join the on-line Helmholtz Lecture by Jorge Almeida, University of Coimbra: Beyond bottom-up and top-down modulations: is there room for horizontal connections? November 6th 2020 at 16:00, Microsoft Teams. Please find abstract below. https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3a2ef63b6dfc4e410081b3e24e6f945030%40thread.tacv2/1602514373347?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%22d72758a0-a446-4e0f-a0aa-4bf95a4a10e7%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%2230d87cc8-8126-4719-bcf4-c37a5e860677%22%7d Abstract: There is general consensus that local representations are modulated by information that is relayed in a…

Due to well-known circumstances the 2020 Helmholtz retreat (June 15-17) has been postponed.

Ben Harvey and colleagues just published a paper in Current Biology, “A network of A Network of Topographic Maps in Human Association Cortex Hierarchically Transforms Visual Timing-Selective Responses” See:  https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(20)30170-6

The Helmholtz annual report of the year 2017/2018 can now be found here!