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The Bernstein-CorTeC Award honors outstanding scientific achievements in the field of Computational Neuroscience and Neurotechnology. The prize is awarded annually alternating for Doctoral or Master theses.

The cochlear implant (CI) is the most successful neural prosthesis worldwide. Thanks to direct stimulation of the auditory nerve, it enables more than half a million people worldwide to hear, even though those affected were born deaf or deafened.

Neuroscientists from BCF discover that hippocampal theta sequences change across different running directions in 2D space, providing insights into how spatial memory is represented by a temporal code.

February 2022: The postulate “fire together, wire together” suggests a general mechanism of synaptic plasticity, which is thought to underly network wiring and cell assembly formation. In a new study published in PLOS Computational Biology, three researchers at the Bernstein Center Freiburg shed new light on this process, which is fundamental for robust brain function.

April 2022: The Bernstein Center Freiburg mourns the unexpected death of Carl van Vreeswijk, member of its Scientific Advisory Board. Carl passed away in Paris on April 13, 2022.

Several cortical mechanisms have been proposed to explain the neuronal basis of short-term memory; however, the community has not reached a consensus yet. A recent publication in Hippocampus reports that hippocampal activity contains information about past behavior in brief sporadically spread, time intervals.