Center for Environmental Neuroscience

Developing brains and changing worlds: Macroenvironmental changes and their association with brain development Growing evidence suggests that physical environmental features at the neighborhood level are linked to brain structure during human development. In a …

New CEN paper! 📣
Juan F. Quinones et al. used structural equation models & regularized multivariate path analysis to identify macroenvironmental features that predict changes in whole-brain structural features in a sample of 368 adolescents

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

#neuroskyence

Ein MRT auf Reisen YouTube video by Max Planck Institute for Human Development

Premiere am Max-Planck-Institut für Bildungsforschung! 🎉

Ein mobiler Magnetresonanztomograph geht an den Start – und reist im Spezialtrailer direkt an Forschungsorte – für eine lebensnahe Umweltneurowissenschaft @cen-mpib.bsky.social 🧠🌍

Mehr erfahren:
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Call for Applications - Max Planck Postdoc Program, apply now!

The Max Planck #PostdocProgram offers top emerging talents a range of attractive measures and opportunities. The current call for applications is open from March 1st until April 13th, 2026. Please share or consider applying! 🙏
www.mpg.de/en/max-planc... #careerinscience #sciencecareer

Workshop zu Klimawandel und psychischer Gesundheit: Leopoldina und Südafrikanische Akademie fördern junge Forschende Extreme Hitze, Naturkatastrophen, Ernährungsunsicherheit: Die Folgen des Klimawandels sind vielerorts bereits deutlich und immer mehr spürbar. Die Folgen für die körperliche Gesundheit sind zunehmend ...

📢 #CallForParticipation: Nachwuchsforschende aus dem deutschsprachigen Raum und Südafrika haben die Chance, an einem Workshop zu „Klimawandel und mentaler Gesundheit“ vom 8. bis 10. September 2026 in Südafrika teilzunehmen. 🇿🇦 Bis Freitag, 3. April 2026 bewerben: www.leopoldina.org/newsroom/nac...

Last Thursday, postdoc Sonja Sudimac joined @berlinualliance.bsky.social's annual Career Day to talk about her career journey. A good opportunity for researchers from different fields to get together, and a nice break from the computer/lab! 👩‍🔬

www.berlin-university-alliance.de/en/commitmen...

Studentische Mitarbeitende (m/w/d) | Scientific Technology and Computing

🚨 Student Job Alert 🚨

Unsere Serviceeinheit Scientific Technology and Computing sucht eine Studentische Hilfskraft zur Unterstützung und Betreuung von IT- und Technologielösungen in Forschungslaboren und der organisatorischen Mitarbeit im Laborbetrieb.
www.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/2259305/2026...

CEN Colloquium: Laura di Paolo, XSCAPE- Material Minds: Artefacts, Prediction, and the Cognitive Life of Things

🚨 CEN Colloquium 🚨

Laura Desirée di Paolo will present the ERC project XSCAPE – Material Minds, an interdisciplinary effort to understand how artefacts actively participate in cognitive processes and in the formation of mental models.

Join us!

📅 20 DEC 15:00
📍MPIB & online

shorturl.at/IxjRu

Treasure trove of data on aging accessible One of the most important gerontological data sets has been opened to the research community. The data of the Berlin Aging Study (BASE) are accessible via the Research Data Center of the Leibniz Insti...

🎉 The data of the Berlin Aging Study (BASE) are now accessible via the Research Data Center of the Leibniz Institute for Psychology (ZPID) @zpid.bsky.social.
This is a unique longitudinal data set with great potential – also for young scientists.
👉 www.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/base-data-av...

Die Daten der Berliner Altersstudie (BASE) sind ab sofort über das Forschungsdatenzentrum des ZPID @zpid.bsky.social weltweit für Forschende verfügbar.

Ein einzigartiger Langzeitdatensatz mit großem Potenzial – auch für den wissenschaftlichen Nachwuchs.

👉 www.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/datenschatz-...

On the move: MRI goes mobile

Our new mobile MRI scanner brings state-of-the-art imaging directly to the field—without compromising data quality! Read more about the 1,5 Tesla and our plans with it: www.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/newsroom/new...

#Neuroscience #FieldResearch #InnovationInScience #BrainScience #NewYearNewGoals

Ta-da! We are proud to present our new mobile MRI scanner, which will enable us to conduct neuroscience research in the field.

#NewYearNewGoals: We're kicking off the new year with a "little" surprise 🌟

Take a peek! More soon...

#LoveScience #ScientificCuriosity #ScienceForward #Innovation #MaxPlanckSociety

This week is ideal to draft your submission for the #MindBrainBody Symposium 2026 so that you can let it rest over the (potential) holidays and finalise it first thing in 2026 (deadline: January 8, 2026). 😉

Looking forward to seeing you there and - in case - happy holidays! 🎄🧠🫀🫁

New paper involving LIP members @brandmaier.bsky.social & Ulman Lindenberger, LIP alumna Sandra Düzel, as well as colleague Simone Kühn @cen-mpib.bsky.social! 📣

CEN Colloquium, Mat White: From “sure, nature is good” to “okay we need to take this seriously”

🚨 CEN Colloquium 🚨

The idea that spending time in natural settings can promote health and well-being is not new, so why is it so hard to implement?
Today we are lucky to host health and environmental psychologist Mat White @univie.ac.at. Join us!

📅 9 DEC 15:00
📍MPIB & online

shorturl.at/VwDe4

CEN Colloquium: Ivan Kroupin, From village to metropolis: Predictable and pervasive changes to visual and cognitive environments as a function of general evolutionary pressures

🚨 CEN Colloquium 🚨

We are pleased to host Dr Ivan Kroupin @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social for his talk 'From village to metropolis: Predictable and pervasive changes to visual and cognitive environments as a function of general evolutionary pressures'

📅 2 DEC 15:00
📍MPIB & online

shorturl.at/JfJgM

(PDF) The Blind Spot in Research on Nature’s Benefits: Restorative versus Instorative Effects and Potential Biases. PDF | Environmental psychology has extensively documented the restorative effects of nature: the recovery of cognitive resources and emotional... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on Res...

New preprint is out! @cen-mpib.bsky.social
The Blind Spot in Research on Nature’s Benefits: Restorative versus Instorative Effects and Potential Biases

www.researchgate.net/publication/...

🧠From Perception to Appraisal: Hierarchical Brain Responses to Natural and Built Features in Urban Environments🧠

New pre-print from Carolina Zaehme & @izzysander.bsky.social, with
@aleksandrskoselevs.bsky.social, Simone Kühn and @mobilebrainimaging.bsky.social

Worth reading the whole thread! ⬇️

CEN Colloquium: Lindsay McCunn, The rise and future of environmental neuroscience in environmental psychology

The rise and future of environmental neuroscience in environmental psychology

🌎 Online
📅 18.11. 3pm CET

Lindsay McCunn @viuniversity.bsky.social
Both disciplines seek to understand the human condition. How can the connection be strengthened?

➡️ Join us online! shorturl.at/AbkjX

#Neuroskyence

5 Outdoor Spaces Scientifically Proven to Calm You Down Outdoor spaces encourage presence, mindfulness, and awe. The landscapes can quickly calm and regulate your nervous system.

Have you ever wondered why your mind suddenly feels unburdened in the presence of trees? Outdoor spaces are scientifically proven to soothe the nervous system—and quickly. VIU Environmental Psychologist Dr. Lindsay McCunn explains for @outsidemag.bsky.social: bit.ly/4lNdCwk

Interactive room design as a tool for understanding form and style preferences - Scientific Reports Scientific Reports - Interactive room design as a tool for understanding form and style preferences

🚨New paper🚨

What makes a room visually appealing? Kira Pohlmann @mpib-berlin.bsky.social led a study asking people to decorate a virtual living room. Most chose angular furniture over curved, challenging the idea that people naturally prefer softer and rounder shapes

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Direktorin Simone Kühne @mpib-berlin.bsky.social ist auch am 13.11. dabei, und wird ein Impulsvortrag um 11.15 Uhr zum Thema 'Ins Grüne? Wie Natur-Erleben Gehirn und Verhalten beeinflussen' halten.

⌚Anmelden für das virtuelle Symposium hier: www.leopoldina.org/veranstaltun...

🚨 The Power of Wellbeing
🚨 Epigenetic Studies in Twins

We are thrilled to be co-hosting epigenetics researchers Dr Jenny van Dongen and Dr Meike Bartels at the
@mpib-berlin.bsky.social next week. Join us live or online on 4.11. for their fascinating talks.

➡️ shorturl.at/z3v2s
➡️ shorturl.at/p9dW1

One last reminder that I’m recruiting a graduate student through the Cognition & Neural Science area @utah.edu this Fall! The lab uses MRI to study healthy cognitive aging across the adult lifespan and will start assessing factors that moderate cognitive aging (air pollution, cardiovascular health).

Postdoctoral Position in Social Science Genomics | Max Planck Research Group Biosocial

We have an open postdoc position in Social Science Genomics in Berlin!

Includes gene-environment interplay within German population cohorts & experimental online survey studies to probe public perceptions of potential DNA biomarker applications

🔗 www.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/2196134/2025...

🚨CEN Colloquium🚨
Thanks to Andreas Pohlmann for introducing us to his beautiful photographs yesterday.

"Nothing is beautiful, nothing is ugly... Every habitat has its own value."
"To perpetuate life...this is the beauty of nature."

www.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/events/43201...
@mpib-berlin.bsky.social

💻 Last week 💻
@isdedal.bsky.social and @nourtawil.bsky.social were at the Academy for Neuroscience in Architecture conference presenting their upcoming paper (w Claire Pauley) on how the brain processes face-like house façades 🏠

#ANFA2025 #Neuroscience #Architecture #EnvironmentalNeuroscience

Our director, Simone Kühn is also on the MPSCogs faculty. Applications for PhD positions and scholarships are open now: cognition.maxplanckschools.org/en/application

The new application cycle for our fully funded international graduate program has just started. You can now apply via our website, sign up for a Q&A, or participate in the Applicant Support Program cognition.maxplanckschools.org/en ! 👍🏻🧠👏🏾#passionforscience, #maxplanckschools

Max Planck Research Groups Max Planck Research Groups have been a key part of support of junior scientists for over 50 years. They provide postdocs with a first-rate support to help them on their scientific career paths – the a...

The call for Max Planck Research Groups 2025 is open (9 Sep–14 Oct). Postdocs can launch independent careers w/ 6+ yrs, budget, team & world-class support.
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