The 2024 winner is neuroscientist Max Arwed Crayen. He completed his doctorate in the Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory at the DPZ and, as part of his work, investigated how our brain combines visual information such as color and movement into a coherent overall impression - and why errors sometimes occur in the process. He has also developed new techniques to carry out more precise measurements in the brain and thus better investigate the fundamentals of such perceptual processes.

The DPZ Support Association awards the PhD prize for outstanding doctoral theses in which studies on primates play a central role. The prize is endowed with 1000 Euro and supported by the MacLean Erkelenz Foundation.      - C. Roos

^{Crayen MA, Treue S, Esghaei M (2024) Interactions between the fovea and the periphery shape misbinding of visual features in a continuous report paradigm Scientific Reports 14, 28381
DOI:10.1038/s41598-024-78867-5}

^{Crayen MA, Kagan I, Esghaei M, Hoehl D, Thomas U, Prückl R, Schaffelhofer S, Treue S (2024) Using camera-guided electrode microdrive navigation for precise 3D targeting of macaque brain sites. PLoS ONE 19(5):e0301849
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0301849}