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Experience Required: A role for vision in the development of inhibitory networks
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Spot the difference: Brain changes that enable fine visual discrimination learning
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MPFI Receives Grant to Expand Education Outreach
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Dr. Gabriela Rodriguez Awarded NIH Grant
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Max Planck Florida Holds Science Meets Music
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MPFI Holds Brain Bee Challenge 2022
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Gold In-and-Out: New software automates and standardizes electron microscopy data analysis
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Max Planck Society President Announces Aid Package for Ukraine Refugee Scientists
Original article: https://www.mpg.de/18467405/max-planck-praesident-stellt-hilfspaket-fuer-die-ukraine-im-senat-vor
“Since February 24, 2022, my life story has divided into two parts: the part when I thought that war would never knock on the doors of […]

Ready, Set … GO! Scientists discover a brain circuit that triggers the execution of planned movement
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Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience Stands in Solidarity with Ukraine
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Understanding Binocular Vision: How MPFI Researchers are Working to Understand How Vision Comes Together
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Max Planck Florida Announces First US-based International Max Planck Research School
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MPFI Data Science Fellows Organize Hackapalooza
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Working Together to Understand How the Brain Sees the World
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Cartography of the Visual Cortex: Charting a New Course for the Organization of Visual Space
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Imaging Single Spine Structural Plasticity at the Nanoscale Level
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MPFI Research Group Leader Awarded Grant to Study Eating Disorders
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MPFI Launches New Series Featuring Max Planck Researchers
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Rangaraju Lab Awarded Grant to Study Mitochondrial Function
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Molecular Bridge Mediates Inhibitory Synapse Specificity in the Cortex
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Max Planck Florida Researcher Wins Klingenstein-Simons Fellowship Award
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Small Cluster, Big Implications: Specialized Inhibitory Cluster Gates Plasticity during Fear Learning
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Max Planck Florida’s Wang Lab Receives $2.4M NIH Grant to Study Memory
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Max Planck Florida Receives Mary and Robert Pew Public Education Fund Grant to Expand Teacher Training
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