The self-teaching brain

Project Information

BrainPlay

Grant agreement ID: 810580

DOI

10.3030/810580

EC signature date 17 May 2019

Start date 1 August 2019

End date 31 October 2026

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 9 781 250,00

EU contribution

€ 9 781 250,00

Coordinated by

HUMBOLDT-UNIVERSITAET ZU BERLIN
Germany

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Publications

Conference proceedings (20)

The Resilient Brain: Mental Health in Balance with Society and Planet

Author(s): Daphne Bavelier
Published in: 2021
Publisher: Tokyo Forum

Impact on children and adolescents – New directions

Author(s): Daphne Bavelier
Published in: 2022
Publisher: The Huo Family Foundation, Meeting on Digital Technology

Alleviating anxiety in adolescents through video game play

Author(s): Gradi, N., Shmuel S., Bavelier D, Shechner, T., Pichon S.
Published in: 2022
Publisher: HNP

Characterizing on-task behaviors in states of high and low flow., [Poster Presentation]

Author(s): Joessel F., Pichon S., Bavelier D.
Published in: 2022
Publisher: UNIGE

EEG markers of the state of flow

Author(s): Nguyen A., Joessel F., Hillyard S., Bavelier D.
Published in: 2021
Publisher: Human Neuroscience Platform - Campus Biotech

EEG markers to task-irrelevant stimuli under high and low levels of flow, [Poster Presentation]

Author(s): Nguyen A., Scheltienne M., Joessel F., Hillyard S., Bavelier D.
Published in: 2023, Page(s) 110
Publisher: UNIGE

Alleviating anxiety in adolescents through play.

Author(s): Gradi, N., Shmuel S., Bavelier D, Shechner, T., Pichon S.
Published in: 2022
Publisher: UNIGE

Development of Video Game to investigate the features of video games promoting cognition [Poster Presentation]

Author(s): Joessel, F.
Published in: 2022
Publisher: UNIGE

L’Humain Augmenté : Espoir, défis et enjeux éthiques

Author(s): Daphne Bavelier
Published in: 2022
Publisher: Brain Awareness Week

Effectiveness of a 6-week in-home gamified attentional control training versus casual video game training on typically developed adolescents with high anxiety.

Author(s): Gradi, N., Shmuel S., Bavelier D, Shechner, T., & Pichon S.
Published in: 2022
Publisher: UNIGE

Toward neural markers of the flow state using EEG and video game play, [Poster Presentation]

Author(s): Nguyen A., Scheltienne M., Joessel F., Hillyard S., Bavelier D.
Published in: 2022
Publisher: UNIGE

Exploring the neural bases of flow: modulation of brain responses to task-irrelevant stimuli while playing action-shooter video games, [Poster Presentation]

Author(s): Nguyen A., Scheltienne M., Joessel F., Hillyard S., Bavelier D.
Published in: 2023
Publisher: UNIGE

EEG markers to task-irrelevant stimuli while playing action-shooter video games: exploring the neural bases of flow, [Poster Presentation]

Author(s): Nguyen A., Scheltienne M., Joessel F., Hillyard S., Bavelier D.
Published in: 2022
Publisher: UNIGE

A method to induce low and high flow states while keeping participants on task – A confirmatory study [Poster Presentation]

Author(s): Freya Joëssel, Swann Pichon, Daphné Bavelier
Published in: 2023
Publisher: UNIGE

Effectiveness of a 6-week in-home gamified attentional control training versus casual video game training on typically developed adolescents with high anxiety

Author(s): Gradi, N., Shmuel S., Bavelier D, Shechner, T., AND Pichon S.
Published in: 2022
Publisher: HUG project presentation

A method to induce low and high flow states while keeping participants on task

Author(s): Joessel F., Pichon S., Bavelier D.
Published in: 2021
Publisher: FENS

Alleviating anxiety in adolescents through play. [Poster Presentation]

Author(s): Gradi, N., Shmuel S., Bavelier D, Shechner, T., Pichon S.
Published in: 2022
Publisher: UNIGE

Investigating the reliability of connectome-based predictive models across fMRI runs and datasets

Author(s): Joessel F., Rosenberg M., Chun M., Bavelier D.
Published in: 2021
Publisher: Society for Neuroscience

Characterizing on-task behaviors in states of high and low flow

Author(s): Joessel F., Pichon S., Bavelier D.
Published in: 2022
Publisher: Alpine Brain Imaging Meeting 2022

Toward neural markers of the flow state using EEG and video game play

Author(s): Nguyen A., Scheltienne M., Joessel F., Hillyard S., Bavelier D.
Published in: 2022
Publisher: Lemanic Neuroscience Annual Meeting 2022

Other (10)

Play and tickling responses map to the lateral columns of the rat periaqueductal gray

Author(s): Natalie Gloveli, Jean Simonnet, Wei Tang, Miguel Concha-Miranda, Eduard Maier, Anton Dvorzhak, Dietmar Schmitz, Michael Brecht
Published in: Neuron, 2023
Publisher: Neuron
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2023.06.018

Play in video games

Author(s): Arthur Nguyen, Daphné Bavelier
Published in: Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, Issue Vol. 153, October 2023, 105386, 2023
Publisher: Elsevier
DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2023.105386

Video Game Play to Alleviate Adolescent Anxiety

Author(s): Gradi N, Bavelier D, Shechner T, Pichon S
Published in: ClinicalTrials.gov, 2023
Publisher: ClinicalTrials.gov ID NCT05923944

Unsupervised discovery of behaviorally relevant brain states in rats playing hide-and-seek

Author(s): Bence Bagi, Michael Brecht, Juan Ignacio Sanguinetti-Scheck
Published in: Current Biology, 2022
Publisher: Current Biology
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2022.04.068

Microcircuits for spatial coding in the medial entorhinal cortex

Author(s): John J. Tukker, Prateep Beed, Michael Brecht, Richard Kempter, Edvard I. Moser, and Dietmar Schmitz
Published in: Physiological Reviews, 2022, Page(s) Pages 653-688
Publisher: American Physiological Society
DOI: 10.1152/physrev.00042.2020

Differential ripple propagation along the hippocampal longitudinal axis

Author(s): Roberto De Filippo; Dietmar Schmitz
Published in: eLife 12, e85488 (2023). doi:10.7554/eLife.85488, Issue 12:e85488, 2023
Publisher: eLife
DOI: 10.7554/elife.85488

TIME TO PLAY: PREFRONTAL SPECIALIZATIONS FOR PLAY BEHAVIOR

Author(s): Concha-Miranda, Miguel, and Michael Brecht
Published in: Behind and Beyond the Brain, Issue 149, 2023, Page(s) 151-164
Publisher: Aquém e Além do Cérebro

Large-Scale Mapping of Vocalization-Related Activity in the Functionally Diverse Nuclei in Rat Posterior Brainstem

Author(s): M. Concha-Miranda, W. Tang, K. Hartmann and M. Brecht
Published in: Journal of Neuroscience, Issue Vol. 42, Issue 44, 2022, Page(s) 8252-8261
Publisher: Journal of Neuroscience
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.0813-22.2022

Tickle contagion in the somatosensory cortex

Author(s): Lena V. Kaufmann, Michael Brecht, Shimpei Ishiyama
Published in: iScience, Issue Volume 25, Issue 12, 22 December 2022, 105718, 2022, ISSN 2589-0042
Publisher: iScience
DOI: 10.1016/j.isci.2022.105718

Microglia actively remove <scp>NR1</scp> autoantibody‐bound <scp>NMDA</scp> receptors and associated post‐synaptic proteins in neuron microglia co‐cultures

Author(s): Kazi Atikur Rahman; Marta Orlando; Ayub Boulos; Ewa Andrzejak; Dietmar Schmitz; Noam E. Ziv; Harald Prüss; Craig C. Garner; Aleksandra Ichkova
Published in: Glia 71(8), 1804-1829 (2023). doi:10.1002/glia.24369, Issue Volume 71, Issue 8, 2023, Page(s) 1804-1829
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1002/glia.24369

Peer reviewed articles (11)

Play, but not observing play, engages rat medial prefrontal cortex

Author(s): Miguel Concha‐Miranda, Konstantin Hartmann, Annika Reinhold, Michael Brecht, Juan I. Sanguinetti-Scheck
Published in: European Journal of Neuroscience, Issue 52/9, 2020, Page(s) 4127-4138, ISSN 0953-816X
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/ejn.14908

Water-hose tool use and showering behavior by Asian elephants

Author(s): Lea Urban, Rolf Becker, Andreas Ochs, Florian Sicks, Michael Brecht, Lena Valentina Kaufmann
Published in: Current Biology, Issue 34, 2024, Page(s) 5602-5606.e1, ISSN 0960-9822
Publisher: Cell Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2024.10.017

The human tickle response and mechanisms of self-tickle suppression

Author(s): Sandra Proelss, Shimpei Ishiyama, Eduard Maier, Matthias Schultze-Kraft and Michael Brecht
Published in: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, Issue Biological Sciences, Volume 377, Issue 1863, 2022, ISSN 1471-2970
Publisher: Royal Society
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2021.0185

Evaluating the effect of action-like video game play and of casual video game play on anxiety in adolescents with elevated anxiety: protocol for a multi-center, parallel group, assessor-blind, randomized controlled trial

Author(s): Naïma Gradi, Adrien Chopin, Daphné Bavelier, Tomer Shechner, Swann Pichon
Published in: BMC Psychiatry, Issue 24, 2024, ISSN 1471-244X
Publisher: BioMed Central
DOI: 10.1186/s12888-024-05515-7

Large brains: Big unknowns in cellular neuroscience

Author(s): Michael Brecht
Published in: Current Opinion in Neurobiology, Issue 91, 2025, Page(s) 102981, ISSN 0959-4388
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.conb.2025.102981

Unraveling the developmental dynamic of visual exploration of social interactions in autism

Author(s): Nada Kojovic, Sezen Cekic, Santiago Herce Castañón, Martina Franchini, Holger Franz Sperdin, Corrado Sandini, Reem Kais Jan, Daniela Zöller, Lylia Ben Hadid, Daphné Bavelier, Marie Schaer
Published in: eLife, Issue 13, 2024, ISSN 2050-084X
Publisher: eLife Sciences Publications
DOI: 10.7554/elife.85623

Behavioral and neural correlates of hide-and-seek in rats

Author(s): Annika Stefanie Reinhold, Juan Ignacio Sanguinetti-Scheck, Konstantin Hartmann, Michael Brecht
Published in: Science, Issue 365/6458, 2019, Page(s) 1180-1183, ISSN 0036-8075
Publisher: American Association for the Advancement of Science
DOI: 10.1126/science.aax4705

Unraveling the link between media multitasking and attention across three samples.

Author(s): Kenneth Rioja, Sezen Cekic, Daphne Bavelier, Susanne E. Baumgartner
Published in: Technology, Mind, and Behavior, Issue 4, 2023, ISSN 2689-0208
Publisher: American Psychological Association (APA)
DOI: 10.1037/tmb0000106

Going beyond video game consumption when considering Internet Gaming Disorder

Author(s): Sezen Cekic, Benoît Bediou, Sophia Achab, Michael Rich, C. Shawn Green, Daphné Bavelier
Published in: Comprehensive Psychiatry, Issue 133, 2024, Page(s) 152500, ISSN 0010-440X
Publisher: W. B. Saunders Co., Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.comppsych.2024.152500

Social play behavior is driven by glycine-dependent mechanisms

Author(s): Anton Dvorzhak, Michael Brecht, Dietmar Schmitz
Published in: Current Biology, Issue 34, 2024, Page(s) 3654-3664.e6, ISSN 0960-9822
Publisher: Cell Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2024.06.073

Cognitive and Behavioral Correlates of Achievement in a Complex Multi-Player Video Game

Author(s): Adam M. Large; Benoit Bediou; Sezen Cekic; Yuval Hart; Daphne Bavelier; C. Shawn Green
Published in: COGITATIO Media and Communication, Issue Vol 7, No 4 (2019), 2019, Page(s) 198-212, ISSN 2183-2439
Publisher: COGITATIO Media and Communication
DOI: 10.17645/mac.v7i4.2314