The art of giving sense to our perception
Tania was invited to give a talk at an event called “The art of giving sense to our perception: neuroscience and art”. The event was organised by Leo Cusin and Angéline Wettig…
Our research in a SWR Kultur radio show by Maria Gierlinger
The journalist Maria Gierlinger made an excellent radio show in Listening, aired on SWR Kultur on November 7. If you understand german, do listen to it here. It puts our research in…
BrainCoder Conference
Together with the Hearlight consortium partners, we are organising the BrainCoder conference, that will take place Feb 20-21 2025 in Gardanne (close to Aix-la-Chapelle). Look it up here, and register before December…
Cargese 2024 conference
Maria and Tania spent a week in the beautiful institute for physicist of Cargese, Corsica, France. The conference “Maturation and plasticity of biological and artificial networks“, organized by Georges Debregeas and Remi…
10th MMN2024 conference
The Mismatch negativity (MMN) conference 2024 to place in Alicante from Sept 17-19. Manuel Malmierca and his team put up an excellent program, both scientifically and beyond, to make this gathering a…
Lab Offsite 2024
The lab offsite 2024 edition brought us to Radolfzell at the Lake Constance. Sebastian organized 2 excellent days (from July 1 to 3), where we had time to discuss the next projects…
Entrepreneurship training for James
James participated in an Entrepreneurship training offered by the Swiss Innovation Agency in cooperation with Innosuisse, and organized by the Innovation Office of the University of Basel. James acquired theoretical and practical…
Welcome to Irenäus
Irenäus Stec holds a Swiss Federal Medical Diploma after completing a bachelor and master of Medicine at the University of Basel. He joined the lab as MD/PhD student in June 2024 and…
Our research is discussed at CQFD
Sarah Dirren, a journalist of the Swiss radio rts at CQFD, visited our lab to discuss our research. Two shows/podcasts (in French) resulted from it: -one discussing how the brain processes sounds,…
A new SNSF project grant for the lab
The SNSF evaluated our grant positively and decided to support it. This will allow us to get a new understanding of “the development basis of categorization”, a theme we will focus on…
Welcome to Loïc
Loïc Anezo holds a bachelor’s degree in Chemistry & Biology from the Faculty of Life Sciences at the University of Strasbourg (France). Currently, he is in the final stages of completing his…
Surprise! – How the brain learns to deal with the unexpected
Patricia’s paper, “Sequential maturation of stimulus-specific adaptation in the lemniscal auditory pathway” is out at Science Advances. It has been well discussed in the news, including an article from Angelika Jacobs in…
Podcast Primenews UniBâle
I was interviewed for a podcast in the series UniBâle from primenews to tell about our research – and hearing in general. If you are open for some broken german, listen to…
Lab Retreat 2023
Tommaso, with the help of Nicole, organised an excellent retreat for the 2023 edition, in a remote cottage lost in the black forest, not far from Todtnau (Germany). We spent 2 days…
Transdisciplinary exchanges at the Uni Basel
The university of Basel creates stimulating platforms to forster exchanges, discussions, and projects across the different research areas. Two of my favourite platforms in this context are the Carte Blanche Events for…
The Brain FENS conference 2023
Maria and I attended the Brain FENS conference on “Structuring knowledge for flexible beahvior”. We got excellent feedback on my talk and Maria’s poster, presenting “Neural computation underlying transfer of learning”. Thank…
The golden pipette for Maria
Maria is bringing the trophy back home! She got the award for the best talk at the department’s PhD retreat 2023, for her presentation entitled Role of Critical Period in Categorization Formation.…
Welcome to Nataša
Nataša Jovanović joined our lab in September 2023 as a visiting scientist, as part of an exchange for the last year of her PhD studies. She started her PhD at the Charles…
Giessbach meeting 2023
The Giessbach meeting 2023 innovated by …not being at Giessbach, but at Les Rasses instead! Everyhting else stayed the same: the excellent and very inspiring scientific talks, the exchanges among swiss neuroscientists,…
New grant for Sebastian!
Sebastian was awarded a grant from the University of Basel’s Research Fund for Excellent Junior Researchers. This will allow him to complete his project about the neuronal basis of duration perception. Congratulations…
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