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New publication by Simon Hanslmayr in “Current Biology”
How the brain brings back memories of past events remains largely unknown. In a collaboration between the MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit in Cambridge (Dr. Maria Wimber), the University of Konstanz (Dr. Simon Hanslmayr, Zukunfskolleg) and the Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg, researchers have now identified a rapid memory reactivation mechanism that has so far only been speculated about. In this project, participants learned long lists of words while the screen was flickering at different frequencies. Such flickering stimulation is known to induce a frequency-specific "oscillating" brain signal that is clearly visible in the human electroencephalogram (EEG). The study revealed that when participants later remember one of the previously studied words, the brain rapidly reproduces a signal at the particular frequency that had been present during learning. These results indicate that when people recollect past events, the brain transiently returns to the state that it was in when the event had first been encountered. The study is available online in Current Biology:
http://www.cell.com/current-biology/abstract/S0960-9822(12)00646-X
New release in renowed Journal „The Journal of Neuroscience“
Simon Hanslmayr, Research Fellow of the Zukunftskolleg, published an article concerning successful memory formation in the renowed journal “The Journal of Neuroscience”. Using simultaneous EEG–fMRI recordings in humans during long-term memory encoding it was possible to demonstrate which neuronal synchronisation pattern underlie the formation of new memory effects. The complete article “The Relationship between Brain Oscillations and BOLD Signal during Memory Formation: A Combined EEG–fMRI Study” can be found here.
Fellow Malte Drescher involved in developing a new research method for measuring biochemical bonds
Together with organic chemists of the University of Konstanz the working group of the Zukunftskolleg Fellow Malte Drescher developed an innovative research method for studying bonding mechanisms between multivalent carbohydrates and proteins. The results of this research are published as a cover article in the journal “Angewandte Chemie” and could be used in cancer research.
Further information is available in the (German) press release of the University of Konstanz.
Link to the article: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ange.201101074/full
New article in the journal "Cerebral Cortex"
Nadia Müller, Associated Fellow, and Nathan Weisz, Research Fellow of the Zukunftskolleg published the aricle "LateralizedAuditory Cortical Alpha Band Activity and Interregional Cennectivity Pattern Reflect Antivipation of Target Sounds" in the journal "Cerebral Cortex.
New release by Nathan Weisz in "Frontiers in Perception Science"
Another article is published in the Journal "Frontiers in Perception Science" by Nathan Weisz, who is fellow of the Zukunftskolleg and Emmy-Noehter Groupleader in the Department of Psychology at the University of Konstanz.
Nathan Weisz, Thomas Hartmann, Nadia Müller, Isabel Lorenz and Jonas Obleser:
"Alpha Rhythms in Audition: Cognitive and Clinical Perspectives"
Here you can finde an abstract of this article.
New release by Nathan Weisz in "Frontiers of Perception Science"
"Probing of brain states in real-time: Introducing the ConSole environment", by Thomas Hartmann, Hannah Schulz, Nathan Weisz
Nathan Weisz is Fellow of the Zukunftskolleg and Emmy-Noether Groupleader in the Department of Psychology at the University of Konstanz. For more information please visit:
"A Rising Star"
A portrait of Franz Huber in issue 3/2010 on page 13 in "german research", the Magazine of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. More...
"Museums should dig in"
Bernard Frischer published the Artikel "Museums should dig in" on December 24, 2010 in International Herald Tribune. More...
New release by Jure Demsar in „Nature“ online edition of November 24, 2010
M. Eichberger, H. Schäfer, M. Krumova, M. Beyer, J. Demsar, H. Berger, G. Moriena, G. Sciaini, R.J.D. Miller "Snapshots of cooperative atomic motions in the optical suppression of Charge Density Waves", Nature, published online DOI: 10.1038/nature09539.
Jure Demsar is Fellow of the Zukunftskolleg and Group leader in the Department of Phyisics at the University of Konstanz, funded by Sofja Kovalevskaja Award from Alexander von Humboldt foundation. For more information please visit:
http://www.aktuelles.uni-konstanz.de/presseinformationen/2010/160/
New Release by Albert Kümmel-Schnur
New Release: Albert Kümmel-Schnur (Ed.), Sympathy for the Devil, Wilhelm Fink Verlag, München 2009, ISBN-10:3-7705-4798-5.
About this book: Radio recension by Thorsten Lorenz in "SWR2 Forum Buch", 19 July 2009 (see p. 12):
http://www.swr.de/swr2/programm/sendungen/swr2-forum-buch/-/id=4945808/property=download/nid=660234/oqqhqk/swr2-forum-buch-20090719.pdf
More from Albert Kümmel-Schnur:
Live on radio on 15 May 2009 with Julian Doepp:
http://www.ardmediathek.de/ard/servlet/content/2572;jsessionid=EE7CF3934A6956A25BB675E58BD508A2?tagId=2448078
New Release February 2010: Albert Kümmel-Schnur, Christian Kassung (Hrsg.), Bildtelegraphie, Eine Mediengeschichte in Patenten (1840-1930):
http://www.transcript-verlag.de/ts1225/ts1225.php
Albert Kümmel-Schnur is Fellow of the Zukunftskolleg.
