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!

28 February 2020 Stereo vision in humans and insects Jenny Read,  Institute of Neuroscience, Newcastle University, UK  

You are cordially invited to attend the Psychology-Research lecture on Friday Feb 21 by David M. Clark professor and chair of Experimental Psychology at the University of Oxford and Oxford Centre for Anxiety Disorders and Trauma (OxCADAT).   “Developing and disseminating effective psychological therapies: Science, practice and economics” (see abstract below). Date: Friday February 21st…