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The Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences is located in
Leipzig
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,
Germany
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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
Munich
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. It is one of 86 institutes in the
Max Planck Society
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(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
Nikolaus Weiskopf
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The Eastern Orthodox Church, the Roman Catholic Church, and the Anglican Churches celebrate Saint Nicholas every year on December 6, which is the name day for "Nicholas". In Greece, the name and its ...
* Psychology - Director: Professor
Christian Doeller
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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 neuros ...
* Neurophysics - Director: Professor
Robert Turner
* Psychology - Director: Professor
Wolfgang Prinz
Wolfgang Prinz (born 24 September 1942) is a German cognitive psychologist. He is the director of the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig, Germany, and an internationally recognized expert in experimental psycho ...
* Cognitive Neurology - Director: Professor
D. Yves von Cramon
References
External links
Homepage of the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences
2004 establishments in Germany
Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences
Cognitive science research institutes
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