Traffic lights, neon-lit advertisements, a jungle of road signs. When learning to drive, it is often very difficult to distinguish between important and irrelevant information. How the brain learns the importance of certain images over others is being investigated by Prof. Sonja Hofer at the Biozentrum of the University of Basel.
Natural channel proteins are integrated into artificial membranes to facilitate the transport of ions and molecules. Researchers at the University of Basel have now been able to measure the movement of these channel proteins for the first time.
Aging is associated with significant decline in cognitive functions. But does this translate into poorer decision making? Psychologists from the University of Basel and the Max Planck Institute for Human Development report that in simple decision situations, older adults perform just as well as younger adults. However, aging may affect decision performance in more complex decision situations.
Physicists have developed an innovative method that could enable the efficient use of nanocomponents in electronic circuits.
The stronger our memory is of a certain food, the more likely we are to choose it – even if it is the more unattractive option. Psychologists at the University of Basel conducted a study on how memory influences our choices by offering various foods and using scans to track brain activity.
On August 1, 2015, the University of Basel will be under the directorship of Andrea Schenker-Wicki: in its session today, the Senate elected the economics professor from Zurich as new Rector with a comfortable majority.
As of today, the Kollegienhaus (main building) can also be visited online: Panoramic pictures on Google Street View now give insights into the campus of the University of Basel.
The latest edition of the event series “Uni-Ein-Blicke” is visiting the Confucius Institute at the University of Basel.
Physicists of the University of Basel and the Swiss Nanoscience Institute were able to show for the first time that the nuclear spins of single molecules can be detected with the help of magnetic particles at room temperature.