Daniel Povinelli is Professor at the Ecology Center of the University of Louisiana Lafayette. He is best known for his research on Theory of Mind in Chimpanzees. His second passion is the theater; in the last years, he has reduced his scientific work to be able to...
He recognized himself, even though is face had been merged with that of his predecessor David McAllister. Stephan Weil, the Prime Minister of Lower Saxony, visited the exhibition of the German Primate Center and the Leibniz ScienceCampus Primate Cognition during the...
How did gibbons become the brachiating acrobats of the rain forests? Could the signals of our brain cells be used to steer prostheses? How can we improve the diagnosis and treatment of chronic respiratory diseases? The answers to these questions can now be found in the...
The 8th Primate Neurobiology meeting was held at the German Primate Center from 16 to 18 March 2015. For two days, 136 participants from Europe, Canada and the USA discussed topics concerning the neuroscientific work with primates. The latest research from fields such...
Enjoying music, recognizing melodies or making conversation in an environment with background noise – these abilities are still severely impaired in people who depend on hearing prostheses, so-called cochlear implants. Researchers in Göttingen were now able to show that...
Large and versatile samples are necessary to investigate evolutionary relationships. In the „Many Primates" project, international scientists have joined forces to investigate the cognitive abilities of as many primate species as possible. Julia Fischer, Department of...
On Nov. 4th, 2015, nearly 120 guests had convened in the lecture hall of the German Primate Center to formally open the Leibniz ScienceCampus Primate Cognition. As speaker of the ScienceCampus, Julia Fischer, who also leads a department at the German Primate Center and...
The German Primate Center's sponsoring association promotes young scientists at the institute and highlights special achievements and successes in primatological research with the 500-euro PhD prize. The prize for the best doctoral thesis completed in 2021 was won by...
More than one hundred scientific organizations, including the Leibniz Association, the Helmholtz Association and the German Research Foundation (DFG) support a statement of the Wellcome Trust in favor of animal testing for scientific purposes within the framework of the...
"Evolution and behavior" was the topic of this year's teacher training course, which, due to high demand, took place on two consecutive days at the German Primate Center. Recently, the topic of behavioral biology had been reintroduced into the core curriculum in Lower...
