Competition for the best pieces of food - also a form of social interaction that needs to be learned. Photo: Alexander Gail
Competition for the best pieces of food - also a form of social interaction that needs to be learned. Photo: Alexander Gail DFG funds new Collaborative Research Centre at the Göttingen Campus with about 12.5 million euros The German Research Foundation (DFG) has funded a new Collaborative Research Centre for the University of Göttingen and its partners at the Göttingen Campus. The title is "Cognition of Interaction" and the award is worth around 12.5 million euros. Twenty-four scientists from the fields of neuroscience, behavioral and cognitive biology, psychology and data science will investigate the special demands that social interactions place on our cognitive abilities and thus on the performance of our brain. The CRC is led by the University of Göttingen; other participating institutions are the German Primate Centre, the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self Organization, the Gesellschaft für wissenschaftliche Datenverarbeitung Göttingen GWDG, the Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf and the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel. Primates, which include all monkeys, apes and humans, are highly social creatures that live almost exclusively in groups and form close social bonds. Social interactions are the basis of our societies, and the prerequisite for cooperation, and learning from each other, as well as for competition and the avoidance of conflicts.
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