Our Brain

The world in our head

Breathing, speaking, walking, laughing, making decisions – everything starts in our head. Our brain determines awareness, actions, thoughts and feelings, and even our character. What happens when we sleep, feel, learn, forget.

© Max Planck Institute for Neurobiology, Martinsried / Volker Staiger (detail; edited by kocmoc)

Our Brain

The Brain © Max Planck Institute for Neurobiology, Martinsried / Volker Staiger (Detail; edited by kocmoc)

The Brain

Powerful emotions © Collage: kocmoc

Powerful emotions

Sleeping in order to live © Kinga Cichewicz/ Unsplash

Sleeping in order to live

Learning and forgetting © Hannah Olinger/ Unsplash

Learning and forgetting

Language © Christina / WOCinTech stock

Language – unique to humans

The Neumayer Station © 2009 Felix Riess, AWI / CC BY 3.0 DE

The brain and the environment

Cooperation partners

Goethe-Institut
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