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Sept. 20, 2018

Valentino-Braitenberg-Award for Prof. Wulfram Gerstner

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Sept. 19, 2018

HBP at Life Sciences Baltics 2018

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Sept. 19, 2018

How brain cells work together for spatial memory and imagery

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Sept. 19, 2018

Sizing Up Consciousness

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Aug. 28, 2018

Individual Brain Charting: A high-resolution brain map of cognitive functions

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Aug. 27, 2018

The pioneering partnership of Supercomputing and Neuroscience in Europe

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Aug. 23, 2018

The Human Brain Project launches voucher programme

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Aug. 16, 2018

Information concerning the Human Brain Project’s Coordination Office

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Geneva, 16 August 2018

Aug. 2, 2018

Summer Quiz: Mammalian brains

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July 24, 2018

"Studying consciousness had been seen as mystical or unscientific"

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Understanding Cognition

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Francis Crick, the co-discoverer of the DNA double helix, defined consciousness as the greatest unsolved problem in biology. The first major international conference of the Human Brain Project, held recently in Barcelona, has focused on the challenges and advances in its study. Jesús Méndez, of the scientific news agecy SINC, spoke with the local organiser of the conference, Mavi Sánchez Vives.