Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

With an introductory lecture on perceptual illusions that was held for high school students, Prof. Dr. Gabriel Curio started our BAW. Afterwards, students were able to participate in seven different workshops”. In the evening we organized a pub quiz event at the Home Bar in Friedrichshain. Questions for the quiz were generated by two of our doctoral students. On Tuesday evening we organized a screening of the movie “Lucy” by Luc Besson, a science fiction story about a person becoming capable of using all neuronal capacities with a subsequent discussion about neuroenhancement, the effect of different drugs on the brain and the social implications of their use with Prof. Dr. Malek Bajbouj. With our workshop at the Gelbe Villa, we build on a successful event with 20 children aged 6-12 who learned about decision-making and visual illusions and played a remember/recall game. On Wednesday and Thrusday the Symposium “Me & I. Conceptual and Empirical Perspectives on the Self” organized by Prof. Dr. Vittorio Gallese, Dr. Laura Kaltwasser and Luca Settembrino took place. A public keynote lecture “Neurobiological consequences of early life stress” by Prof. Dr. Christine Heim was given in the evening. Simultaneously, the talk “The Clock in your Brain – How Circadian Rhythms Structure your Day” by Prof. Dr. Achim Kramer took place at the POP SCIENCE Café. On Friday, the 5th Mind Brain and Body Symposium on “Touch, pain and peripersonal space” organized by Prof. Dr. Arno Villringer and Dr. Anahit Babayan took place. During the whole week, the exhibition “transCerebral” by Juliet Vles was displayed at the Foyers of Humboldt Universität and Grimm Centre, receiving an estimate of 800 visitors.

Our lectures and workshops for high school students are very well visited and teachers are grateful that we offer this kind of education. Also, the general community is glad to be informed about specific topics concerning brain research.