BrainPlay
The self-teaching brain
Publications
These publications are part of the ERC Synergy Grant 'BrainPlay - the self-teaching brain' and have received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (Grant agreement No. 810580).
Behavioral and neural correlates of hide-and-seek in rats
Reinhold AS, Sanguinetti-Scheck JI, Hartmann K, Brecht M (2019)
Science, 365(6458), 1180-1183
Cognitive and Behavioral Correlates of Achievement in a Complex Multi-Player Video Game
Adam M. Large, Benoit Bediou, Sezen Cekic, Yuval Hart, Daphne Bavelier, C. Shawn Green (2019)
COGITATIO Media and Communication, Vol 7, No 4, 198-212
Play, but not observing play, engages rat medial prefrontal cortex
Concha‐Miranda M, Hartmann K, Reinhold A, Brecht M, Sanguinetti‐Scheck JI (2020)
European Journal of Neuroscience
Unsupervised discovery of behaviorally relevant brain states in rats playing hide-and-seek
Bagi B, Brecht M, Sanguinetti-Scheck JI (2022)
Current Biology
M Concha-Miranda, W Tang, K Hartmann, M Brecht (2022)
Journal of Neuroscience, JN-RM-0813-22
Microcircuits for spatial coding in the medial entorhinal cortex
Tukker JJ, Beed P, Brecht M, Kempter R, Moser EI, Schmitz D (2022)
Physiol Rev, 2022.01.12, 102(2):653-688
Tickle contagion in the somato-sensory cortex
Kaufmann LV, Brecht M, Ishiyama S (2022)
iScience. 25(12):105718
The human tickle response and mechanisms of self-tickle suppression
S Proelss, S Ishiyama, E Maier, M Schultze-Kraft and M Brecht (2022)
Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B3772021018520210185
Play and tickling responses map to the lateral columns of the rat periaqueductal gray
Gloveli N, Simonnet J, Tang W, Concha-Miranda M, Maier E, Dvorzhak A, Schmitz D and Brecht M (2023)
Neuron, S0896-6273
Arthur Nguyen, Daphné Bavelier (2023)
Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, Volume 153, 105386, ISSN 0149-7634
Video Game Play to Alleviate Adolescent Anxiety
Gradi, N., Bavelier, D., Shechner, T., & Pichon, S. (2023)
ClinicalTrials.gov, Identification No. NCT05923944
Kazi Atikur Rahman, Marta Orlando, Ayub Boulos, Ewa Andrzejak, Dietmar Schmitz, Noam E. Ziv, Harald Prüss, Craig C. Garner, Aleksandra Ichkova (2023)
GLIA published by Wiley Periodicals LLC., ISSN 0894-1491, Pages 1804 - 1829
Differential ripple propagation along the hippocampal longitudinal axis
Roberto De Filippo, Dietmar Schmitz (2023)
eLife 12:e85488
TIME TO PLAY: PREFRONTAL SPECIALIZATIONS FOR PLAY BEHAVIOR
Michael Brecht and Miguel Alejandro Concha-Miranda (2023)
Aquém e Além do Cérebro: 149
Unravelling the link between media multitasking and attention across three samples
Rioja, K., Cekic, S., Bavelier, D. (equal last), & Baumgartner, S.E. (2023)
Technology, Mind and Behavior, 4(2)
Going beyond video game consumption when considering Internet Gaming Disorder
Cekic, S., Green, C.S., Bediou, B., Achab S., Rich M., & Bavelier, D. (2024)
Comprehensive Psychiatry, 133, 152500
Gradi, N., Chopin, A. Bavelier, D., Shechner, T., & Pichon, S. (2024)
BMC Psychiatry
Unraveling the Developmental Dynamic of Visual Exploration of Social Interactions in Autism
Gradi, N., Chopin, A. Bavelier, D., Shechner, T., & Pichon, S. (2024)
BMC Psychiatry
Social play behavior is driven by glycine-dependent mechanisms
Anton Dvorzhak, Michael Brecht and Dietmar Schmitz (2024)
Current Biology
Water-hose tool use and showering behavior by Asian elephants
Urban L, Becker, R, Ochs A, Sicks F, Brecht M, Kaufmann LV (2024)
Current Biology, Volume 34, Issue 23, 5602 - 5606.e1.
Large brains: Big unknowns in cellular neuroscience
Michael Brecht (2025)
Current Opinion in Neurobiology 91, 102981