Leipzig MPI Kognitions und Neurowissenschaften

The Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences is located in

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. The institute was founded in 2004 by a merger between the former Max Planck Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience in Leipzig and the Max Planck Institute for Psychological Research in

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. It is one of 86 institutes in the Max Planck Society (Max Planck Gesellschaft).

Departments

* Neuropsychology - Director: Professor Angela D. Friederici * Neurology - Director: Professor

Arno Villringer Arno Villringer (born 1958, Schopfheim, Germany) is a Director at the Department of Neurology at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig, Germany; Director of the Department of Cognitive Neurology at Universi ...

* Neurophysics - Director: Professor

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* Psychology - Director: Professor

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Former Departments

* Social Neuroscience - Director: Professor

Tania Singer Tania Singer (born 1969) is a German psychologist and social neuroscientist and the scientific director of the Max Planck Society's Social Neuroscience Lab in Berlin, Germany. Between 2007 and 2010, she became the inaugural chair of social neuro ...

* Neurophysics - Director: Professor Robert Turner * Psychology - Director: Professor Wolfgang Prinz * Cognitive Neurology - Director: Professor D. Yves von Cramon

References

External links

Homepage of the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences
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