Havenith & schölvinck lab News

Martha Havenith and Marieke Schölvinck, research group leaders at the ESI, compare the natural behavior of rodents and non-human primates. They seek to understand how these two species achieve the same results despite having different brains. In this interview, the two explain their work.

Maps of the brain are an important tool to understand how the brain works. Unless the map is wrong. In a recent study ESI group leader Martha Nari Havenith and colleagues show that a lot of the research looking at emotional and cognitive processing in rodents relies on a mapping system that doesn’t make sense.