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Archive 2026

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January 2026
INI Seminar
Tutorial: A glimpse into Pyro
Merlin Schüler
Research Colloquium Neural Basis of Learning
Extraction of functional motifs from experimental data: integration of rate and phase codes by hippocampal cell-assemblies
Eleonora Russo, PhD (Brain Dynamics Laboratory, Superior School Sant'Anna, Italy)
Biopsychology Research Colloquium
AG Netzwerkanatomie des Gehirns
Dr. Felix Ströckens & Priv.-Doz. Dr. Julia Mehlhorn & Ilias-Dimitrios Karlaftis
Research Colloquium Cognitive Psychology and Psychoneuroendocrinology
Memories of a stressful episode with varying retrieval intervals
Leander Fester, Mustafa Yildirim (Cognitive Psychology, RUB)
Seminar Series LOOPS
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Prof. Dr. Hiryu Shizuko (Doshisha University, Kyoto)
Research Talk
Resolving and modelling spatiotemporal neural dynamics in human vision
Radek M. Cichy, PhD (Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, Freie Universität Berlin)
Research Talk
Multiscale simulations of key molecular events at the synapsis 
& Using high performance computing to optimize brain models across scales

Prof. Dr. Paolo Carloni & Dr. Sandra Diaz (Forschungszentrum Jülich)
Research Colloquium Neural Basis of Learning
Exploring naturalistic memory representations with virtual reality, intracranial EEG, and deep neural networks
Daniel Pacheco, PhD (Autonomous University Barcelona, Spain)
Biopsychology Research Colloquium
Interdependency as a driver for the evolution of cooperation in primates and birds
Prof. Dr. Jorg J. M. Massen (Assistant professor in Animal Behaviour and Cognition, Utrecht University, the Netherlands)
Inaugural lecture
Die Macht der Erwartung: Neuro-komputationale Mechanismen der menschlichen Kommunikation
Prof. Dr. Helen Blank (Lehrstuhl Predictive Cognition)
INI Seminar
tba
Shoto Yamada, M.Sc.
Research Colloquium Neuropsychology
tba
Dr. Khazar Ahmadi (Neuropsychologie, Ruhr-Universität Bochum)
Research Colloquium Neural Basis of Learning
Reminder-dependent amnesia: Suppression and recovery
Prof. Tom Beckers (KU Leuven, Belgium)
Biopsychology Research Colloquium
Decoding Social Cognition via Gaze in Human and Nonhuman Animals: From Individual to Collective Levels
Dr. Fumihiro Kano (IMPRS Faculty, Department of Collective Behavior, Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior, Konstanz)
Research Colloquium Cognitive Psychology and Psychoneuroendocrinology
Stress effects on memory accuracy vs. generalization over time
Lianne Wolsink (Cognitive Psychology, RUB)
INI Seminar
tba
Shirin Reyhanian, M.Sc.
Research Colloquium Neuropsychology
tba
Alicja Wicher, M.Sc. (Neuropsychologie, Ruhr-Universität Bochum)
Research Colloquium Neural Basis of Learning
Development of variable birdsong sequences
Avani Koparkar, MSc (Neurobiology of Vocal Communication, University of Tübingen, Germany)

February 2026
Biopsychology Research Colloquium
Bird brains: How do they stop?
Anneleen Dewulf (ECoBird lab , Department of Experimental Psychology, FPPW, Ghent University)
Biopsychology Research Colloquium
Bird brains: How do they stop?
Anneleen Dewulf (ECoBird lab, Department of Experimental Psychology, FPPW, Ghent University)
INI Seminar
tba
Dr. Nicolas Diekmann
Research Colloquium Neuropsychology
tba
Prof. Dr. Lukas Kunz (Universität Bonn)
Research Colloquium Neural Basis of Learning
Cell Assembly-Based Analysis of Neurophysiological Data
Fabrizio Londei, PhD (Neuroscience Institute, Spain)
Seminar Series LOOPS
"Predictive Coding Light"
Prof. Dr. Jochen Triesch (FIAS Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies)

March 2026
MoNN&Di Seminar Series
Quantitative fluorescence fluctuation spectroscopy approaches to monitor GPCR oligomerisation
Dr. Paolo Annibale (School of Physics and Astronomy, University of St Andrews)
Cognitive Neurobiology Talk
Towards Linking Neural Mechanism and Behaviour
Dr. Renate Krause (Institute of Neuroinformatics, University of Zurich and ETH Zurich)
Berlin-Bochum Memory Alliance
V. Berlin-Bochum Memory Symposium
IGSN-Symposium
Unveiling Insights into Glaucoma: Pathology, Cell Death Mechanisms, and Novel Therapeutic Strategies
Gus Gazzard*, Hanhan Liu, Clemens Strohmaier

April 2026
Neuropsychology Talk
Investigating cognitive maps using human single-unit recordings
Prof. Dr. Lukas Kunz (Bonn University)

Neuropsychology Talk
Memory Modes, not Systems: How dynamic neural states enable comprehension, recollection, and prediction in the context of complex events
Prof. Dr. Charan Ranganath (University of California at Davis)

Research Colloquium Cognitive Psychology and Psychoneuroendocrinology
Testosterone in Borderline Personality Disorder
Katja Wingenfeld (Clinic for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Charité, Berlin)
INI Colloquium
A geometric approach to neural manifolds
Prof. Dr. Christian Leibold (Universität Freiburg)
Biopsychology Research Colloquium
What pigeon brains do at rest: Uncovering avian resting-state networks and their temporal dynamics
Paula Gerliz (Biopsychology, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, Ruhr University Bochum)
IGSN-Conference
25 Years of Excellent Education
Desmond Agboada, Ayla Aksoy Aksel, Ercan Altinsoy, Jon Barbour, Sabine Blankenship, Tim Czopka*, Deepak Dash, Valentina Kopp, Olivia Masseck, Giulio Pergola, Naima Rüther, Fabian Schönfeld
Predictive Brain Department Talk
Mind in Motion. How the brain uses space and action to build thought, language, and the cognitive tools that extend the mind.
Prof. Barbara Tversky (Stanford University & Columbia Teachers College)
Research Colloquium Neural Basis of Learning
The Feature Filtering Function from Consciousness to Working Memory
Zefan Zheng, MSc (Predictive Brain Lab, RUB)
Cognitive Neurobiology Talk
Mice are not tiny humans (but brain network homologies exist!)
Dr. Joanes Grandjean (Radboud University Medical Center & Donders Institute of Brain, Cognition and Behavior, Nijmegen)
Research Colloquium Cognitive Psychology and Psychoneuroendocrinology
Interindividual differences in emotion regulation flexibility: the moderating role of working memory capacity and regulation performances
Katja Langer (Cognitive Psychology, RUB)
INI Colloquium
A Scale-Free, First-Principles Account of Brain Function: The Free Energy Principle Meets Attractor Networks
Prof. Dr. Tamas Spisak (UK Essen)
Research Colloquium Neuropsychology
tba
Dr. Khazar Ahmadi (Neuropsychology, Ruhr University Bochum)

May 2026
Research Colloquium Neuropsychology
The neural construction of imagery-rich mental events
Prof. Dr. Dr. Cornelia McCormick (Universitätsklinikum Bonn)
Neuropsychology Talk
The unique role of the entorhinal cortex-hippocampal circuit in vulnerability or resilience to Alzheimer's disease
Prof. Dr. Dennis C. F. Chan (UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience and University Hospitals Sussex)

Research Colloquium Cognitive Psychology and Psychoneuroendocrinology
Cortisol, sex hormones and memory retrieval
Lena Pfeifer (Cognitive Psychology, RUB)
PRODI Seminar
bootGSEA: a bootstrap and rank aggregation pipeline for multi-study and multi-omics enrichment analyses and perspectives
Dr. Shamini Hemandhar Kumar (Molecular Immunology, Ruhr-Universität Bochum)
MoNN&Di Seminar Series
tba
Prof. Javier González Maeso (Dpt. of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Virginia Commonwealth University)
Biopsychology Research Colloquium
Single unit correlates of multitasking behavior in the anterior nidopallium of pigeons
Aaron Alouane (Biopsychology, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, Ruhr University Bochum)
Research Colloquium Cognitive Psychology and Psychoneuroendocrinology
Stress effects on memory accuracy vs. generalization over time
Lianne Wolsink (Cognitive Psychology, RUB)
Research Colloquium Neuropsychology
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Dr. Antoine Bouyeure (Neuropsychology, Ruhr University Bochum)
Research Colloquium Neural Basis of Learning
Assessing the role of anodal prefrontal direct current stimulation in rescuing stress-induced working memory deficits. 
Sumit Roy, PhD. (Center of Medical Psychology and Translational Neuroscience, RUB)
Research Colloquium Neuropsychology
Multimodal signatures of cross-disorder polygenic risk and structural connectivity are linked to negative affectivity
Javier Schneider, M.Sc. (Neuropsychologie, Ruhr-Universität Bochum)

June 2026
Biopsychology Research Colloquium
Identification of an orexin responsive deep-layer-like excitatory population in pigeon pallium
Denise Kalbe (Institute of Neurosciences and Medicine, Structural and Functional Organisation of the Brain, Forschungszentrum Jülich)
Seminar Series Research Center One Health Ruhr
Learning in Challenging Environments: Training the Brain to Generalize
Prof. Caspar Schwiedrzik (Cognitive Neuroscience, RUB)
Research Colloquium Neural Basis of Learning
Neural correlates of resting-state networks and extinction learning in pigeons: fMRI studies
Alaleh Sadraee, MSc (International Graduate School of Neuroscience (IGSN), RUB)
Biopsychology Research Colloquium
Neocortex, hippocampus and avian eccentricity: cortical evolution across amniotes
Oryan Zacks (Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas, Tel Aviv University, Israel)
Research Colloquium Cognitive Psychology and Psychoneuroendocrinology
Neural representational patterns underlying semantic completion in temporal episodic memory.
Henry Soldan (Cognitive Psychology, RUB)
Predictive Brain Department Talk
Do inactive (and inactivated) neurons contribute to visual perception?
Umberto Olcese (Swammerdam Institute for Life Sciences, University of Amsterdam)
Research Colloquium Neuropsychology
Neural signatures of shameful autobiographical memories
Alicja Wicher, M.Sc. (Neuropsychologie, Ruhr-Universität Bochum)
Biopsychology Research Colloquium
How does the pigeon hippocampus represent space?
Dr. Masahiro Inda (Biopsychology, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, Ruhr University Bochum)
Research Talk
Future-oriented mental time travel and self-reinforcement
Prof. Dr. Ekrem Dere (Mental Health Research and Treatment Center, Ruhr-University Bochum)
Predictive Brain Talk Series
Infant Consciousness: How, Where, Whether, When, What?
Claudia Passos (New York University)
Research Colloquium Neuropsychology
Multimodal data on emotional memory
Yaohong Wei, B.Sc. (Neuropsychologie, Ruhr-Universität Bochum)
Biopsychology Research Colloquium
Neuronal spike timings after stimulation of the tectofugal visual pathway
Robert Willma (Biopsychology, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, Ruhr University Bochum)
MoNN&Di Seminar Series
tba
Prof. Giampietro Schiavo (Dpt. of Neuromuscular Diseases, University College London)
Research Colloquium Cognitive Psychology and Psychoneuroendocrinology
Evaluation of interactions between testosterone and cortisol with stress perception and emotion regulation in a sample of males
Erik Ilkevič (Life Sciences Center, Vilnius University, Lithuania)
Research Colloquium Neuropsychology
Human single unit/LFP data on extinction learning
George Jacob, M.Sc. (Neuropsychologie, Ruhr-Universität Bochum)
Research Colloquium Neural Basis of Learning
Methods for studying social transmission in wild-living animals
Michael Chimento (PhD Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Sciences, UZH)
IGSN-Symposium
Small-Fiber Neuropathy: Mechanisms, Diagnostics, and Therapeutic Frontiers
Praveen Anand*, Wolfgang Greffrath*, Andreas Leffler
Research Colloquium Cognitive Psychology and Psychoneuroendocrinology
Comparison of salivary collection methods for cortisol and alpha-amylase assessment during acute exercise
Samuel Bosbach & Dirk Moser (Genetic Psychology, RUB)

July 2026
Seminar Series Research Center One Health Ruhr
Perception in Context – Neural mechanisms of predictive processing in human communication
Prof. Helen Blank (Ruhr University Bochum)
INI Seminar
Impact of acute sleep deprivation on cerebrospinal fluid dynamics in enlarged perivascular spaces.
Dr. Shoaib A. Goraya (Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston)
Research Colloquium Neuropsychology
Understanding navigation to prevent Alzheimer's disease
Varnan Chandreswaran. M.Sc. (Neuropsychologie, Ruhr-Universität Bochum)
Research Colloquium Neural Basis of Learning
Neural recordings of color working memory in jackdaws
Farina Lingstädt (MSc Neural Basis of Learning, RUB)
KlaesLab Seminar
Interactive Inference and the Potential Energy of Actions
Prof. Dr. Roel Vertegaal (Human Media Lab, Radboud University, Nijmegen)
Institute of Biochemistry and Pathobiochemistry Seminar
Interplay between ADP-ribosylation and ubiquitination in protein quality control
Dr. Karla Feijs-Žaja (University Hospital RWTH Aachen University)
Research Colloquium Cognitive Psychology and Psychoneuroendocrinology
Effects of transcutaneous auricular vagus nerve stimulation on cognitive emotion regulation
Maike Kneist (Cognitive Psychology, RUB)
Institute of Biochemistry and Pathobiochemistry Seminar
New insights into the biogenesis of mitochondrial outer membrane proteins
Prof. Doron Rapaport (University of Tübingen)
Research Colloquium Cognitive Psychology and Psychoneuroendocrinology
Training reappraisal under stress
Lisa Wirz (Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour)
Neuropsychology Talk
Pre-stimulus Occipital High-Frequency Bursts Regulate Attentional Efficiency via Local Synchronization and Prefrontal Communication
Prof. Dr. Qi Chen (South China Normal University, Guangzhou)

Predictive Brain Talk Series
Seeing 'How'
Chaz Firestone (Johns Hopkins University)
Biopsychology Research Colloquium
tba
Dr. Mary Flaim (Biopsychology, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, Ruhr University Bochum)
Research Colloquium Neural Basis of Learning
Auditory categorisation in jackdaws
Jane Francescon (BSc Neural Basis of Learning, RUB)

August 2026
Seminar Series Research Center One Health Ruhr
From parasites to pollutants: Exploring the hidden drivers of aquatic environmental health
Prof. Bernd Sures (Aquatic Ecology, University of Duisburg-Essen)
Predictive Brain Talk Series
From sensation to structure: inferring the body in space.
Valeria Peviani (Universitätsklinikum Hamburg Eppendorf)

September 2026
Brain Day 2026
Brain Day: Von der Grundlagenforschung zur Therapie
Prof. Dr. Ulrike Bingel, Prof. Dr. Dr. h. c. Onur Güntürkün, Dr. Julian Packheiser, Prof. Dr. Jutta Peterburs

October 2026
Avian Cognitive Neuroscience Conference 2026
The bird's eye view on the evolution of cognition
PPiMP network event
Predictive Processing Network Symposium 2026
Prof. Chris Bird, Prof. Clare Press, Prof. Lars Muckli
VR Summit 2026
Real Minds in Virtual Worlds
Mel Slater, Mavi Sánchez-Vives, Frank Steinicke, Marc Latoschik, Elisabeth André 
BrainBusiness: Neuroscience meets healthcare industry
Biomarker, Biopsien und Patient:innen-App: Daten für die Erforschung und Behandlung von neurologischen (neuromuskulären) Erkrankungen
Erwartungen, Wahrnehmung und Verhalten: Grundlagen für Therapien von psychosomatischen Beschwerden und Schmerzen

November 2026
Predictive Brain Talk Series
Origins of Intelligence in Animals and Machines    
Justin Wood

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